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Asia Physical Features Map

Mountains, plateaus, deserts, rivers and seas of Asia, labeled first, then asked one round at a time.

Asia Physical Features Map

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Write the name of each numbered feature.Answer key

  1. Himalayas
  2. Tibetan Plateau
  3. Gobi Desert
  4. Siberia
  5. Arabian Peninsula
  6. Deccan Plateau
  7. Indochina Peninsula
  8. Ural Mountains
  9. Kamchatka Peninsula
  10. Pacific Ocean
  11. Indian Ocean
  12. Arabian Sea
  13. Bay of Bengal
  14. South China Sea
  15. Sea of Japan
  16. Caspian Sea
  17. Lake Baikal
  18. Yangtze River
  19. Yellow River
  20. Ganges River
  21. Indus River
  22. Mekong River
  23. Ob River
  24. Yenisey River
  25. Lena River
  26. Amur River
  27. West Siberian Plain
  28. Central Siberian Plateau
  29. Altai Mountains
  30. Kara Sea
  31. Laptev Sea
  32. Sea of Okhotsk
  33. Bering Sea
  34. Kazakh Steppe
  35. Tian Shan
  36. Aral Sea
  37. Lake Balkhash
  38. Irtysh River
  39. Amu Darya
  40. Syr Darya
  41. Mediterranean Sea
  42. Black Sea
  43. Red Sea
  44. Persian Gulf
  45. Anatolia
  46. Caucasus Mountains
  47. Zagros Mountains
  48. Tigris River
  49. Euphrates River

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each feature is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a feature is answered.

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Mountains, plateaus, deserts and peninsu 9

  1. Himalayas Home of Mount Everest, the highest peak on Earth.
  2. Tibetan Plateau A vast plateau where Central, South and East Asia meet.
  3. Gobi Desert The world's sixth-largest desert.
  4. Siberia All of North Asia, from the Urals to the Pacific.
  5. Arabian Peninsula The world's largest peninsula, in West Asia.
  6. Deccan Plateau The plateau between the Western and Eastern Ghats in India.
  7. Indochina Peninsula The mainland part of Southeast Asia.
  8. Ural Mountains Part of the usual boundary between Europe and Asia.
  9. Kamchatka Peninsula A long peninsula of Russia's Far East.

Oceans, seas and lakes 8

  1. Pacific Ocean The ocean east of Asia, the largest on Earth.
  2. Indian Ocean The ocean south of Asia, with Africa to its west.
  3. Arabian Sea Between the Arabian Peninsula and India.
  4. Bay of Bengal Between India's subcontinent and Indochina.
  5. South China Sea Bounded by South China, Indochina, the Philippines and Borneo.
  6. Sea of Japan The sea between the Japanese islands and the mainland.
  7. Caspian Sea The biggest inland water body on Earth, in Europe and Asia.
  8. Lake Baikal The world's deepest lake, in southern Siberia.

The great rivers 9

  1. Yangtze River It flows east from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea.
  2. Yellow River The sixth-longest river in the world.
  3. Ganges River It flows across North India's Gangetic plain.
  4. Indus River It rises in Tibet and empties into the Arabian Sea.
  5. Mekong River The third-longest river in Asia, rising on the Tibetan Plateau.
  6. Ob River The farthest west of Siberia's three great rivers.
  7. Yenisey River The largest river system flowing into the Arctic Ocean.
  8. Lena River The easternmost of Siberia's three great rivers.
  9. Amur River Called the Heilong River in China.

Siberia and its seas 7

  1. West Siberian Plain A plain between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisey River.
  2. Central Siberian Plateau A vast upland east of the Yenisey River.
  3. Altai Mountains The range where the Irtysh and the Ob begin.
  4. Kara Sea An Arctic Ocean arm north of Siberia.
  5. Laptev Sea An Arctic Ocean marginal sea, east of the Kara Sea.
  6. Sea of Okhotsk A sea of the Pacific, west of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
  7. Bering Sea With the Bering Strait, it divides Eurasia from the Americas.

Central Asia 7

  1. Kazakh Steppe Open grassland across northern Kazakhstan.
  2. Tian Shan Mountain ranges whose highest peak stands in Kyrgyzstan.
  3. Aral Sea A salt lake that has largely dried up since the 1960s.
  4. Lake Balkhash A large lake in southeastern Kazakhstan.
  5. Irtysh River The Ob's chief tributary.
  6. Amu Darya It flows from the Pamir Mountains toward the Aral Sea.
  7. Syr Darya It flows from the Tian Shan to the Aral Sea.

Southwest Asia 9

  1. Mediterranean Sea A sea between Europe, Asia and Africa.
  2. Black Sea A sea north of Anatolia, between Europe and Asia.
  3. Red Sea Between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
  4. Persian Gulf Between Iran and Arabia; some call it the Arabian Gulf.
  5. Anatolia The westernmost peninsula of Asia; most of Turkey.
  6. Caucasus Mountains A range between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
  7. Zagros Mountains A range that follows Iran's western border.
  8. Tigris River It flows from the Armenian Highlands toward the Persian Gulf.
  9. Euphrates River It rises in Turkey and crosses Syria and Iraq.

How this list was compiled: Shapes, points and names: the site's own map drawing as it stood on 2026-10-01; the names are those of Natural Earth, the map data, and each was read again in the title or opening of the feature's English Wikipedia article. Detail lines: one fact each from the opening of that article, read on 2026-10-01 (checked 2026-10-01): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altai_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amu_Darya; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amur; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Siberian_Plateau; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Plateau; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobi_Desert; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_River; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irtysh; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamchatka_Peninsula; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_Steppe; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Baikal; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balkhash; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptev_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_River; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ob; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Okhotsk; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syr_Darya; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian_Shan; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural_Mountains; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Siberian_Plain; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenisei; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_regions_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_regions_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_marine_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 38°N 90°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This Asia physical features map labels the continent's big landforms, waters and rivers with no borders, from the Urals to Kamchatka and from Siberia to the Indian Ocean. Read the names, then quiz yourself; three regions get a closer round.

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A map of Asia with rivers and mountains, in six rounds

Three rounds use the whole continent: landforms, then oceans, seas and lakes, then nine great rivers from the Indus to the Amur. Three more zoom in on Siberia and its seas, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia; the last two make a southwest and central Asia physical map. Press Quiz me for an Asia physical map quiz.

South, East and Southeast Asia up close

For a south and southeast Asia physical map, the big features of both are here: the Himalayas, the Deccan Plateau, the Ganges, the Mekong. Smaller ones, such as the Thar Desert, the Korean Peninsula and Borneo, are drawn but asked on closer maps, listed with every physical map quiz.

  • The Himalayas lie on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau: for the plateau, tap north of the range.
  • Three rivers of Siberia flow to the Arctic Ocean: the Ob in the west, the Yenisey, the Lena in the east.
  • Lake Baikal, Lake Balkhash, the Aral Sea, the Ob, the Tigris and the Euphrates are answered at a ring.

Questions and answers

What are the major physical features of Asia?

The Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, Siberia, the Gobi Desert, the Arabian and Indochina peninsulas, the Deccan Plateau and the Ural Mountains. Rivers: the Yangtze, Yellow, Ganges, Indus and Mekong. Waters: the Pacific and Indian oceans, the Caspian Sea and Lake Baikal.

Is this an Asia physical map labeled, or an outline to fill in?

Both. It opens labeled: tap a feature for its name and one fact. For an Asia physical map outline on paper, the blank print numbers every feature and leaves a line for each name.

Which rivers are on this map of major rivers in Asia?

Nine in the great rivers round: Yangtze, Yellow, Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Ob, Yenisey, Lena and Amur. The Irtysh, Amu Darya and Syr Darya are in the Central Asia round, and the Tigris and Euphrates in Southwest Asia.

Where is an easy physical map of Asia to start with?

The first round: nine big landforms on the whole continent, such as the Himalayas, Siberia and Arabia.

Why does the map say Persian Gulf and Sea of Japan?

The drawing takes its names from Natural Earth, its map data. Arab governments call the Persian Gulf the Arabian Gulf, and South Korea supports East Sea for the Sea of Japan. The page takes no side; both count as typed answers.

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