The saltiest body of water in the world is the Dead Sea.

Iraq’s economy is based on oil.

Because of its water resources, India and Pakistan want to control the Kashmir.

The Nile River flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.

Algeria’s government is a republic.

Bhutan gets its name from mountain storms.

A cottage industry is a home or village based industry where family members, even children, supply their own equipment to make goods.

In 1947, India won its independence from Great Britain.

The official name of China is the People’s Republic of China.

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea.

The flow of water in the Nile River is controlled by the Aswan High dam.

The only city in the world located on two continents is Istanbul.

The country of Turkey has land in Asia and Europe.

Israel is the most industrialized country in Southwest Asia.

Most people in Bhutan are subsistence farmers.

The two major rivers in Bangladesh are the Ganges River and the Brahmaputra River.

The Bengal Famine was India’s worst food disaster.

The Sikhs would like to form their own independent state in India.

In China, the government controls people’s lives in many ways.

Mount Everest lies in the country of Nepal.

Over half of China’s people live in rural areas.

Students led a protest in Beijing to demand more freedom in 1989.

Lebanon endured a civil war from 1975 to 1990.

Palestinians make up about 20% of Israel’s ppeople.

Damascus was founded as a trading center more than 4,000 years ago.

Algeria pays for imported food by selling oil and natural gas.

The first known people to live in North Africa were the Berbers.

Byzantium was renamed Constantinople after Constantine the Great.

India’s society is organized into social classes based on a person’s ancestry.

Bhutan was once called the Hidden Holy Land.

Pandas and other rare animals can be found on the Plateau of Tibet.

Taiwan’s wealth comes from high technology industries, manufacturing, and trade with other countries.

The disputed territory between Pakistan and India is called the Kashmir.

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan.

The official language of Pakistan is Urdu.

Reincarnation is the rebirth of a soul in a new body.

Hinduism is practiced by most people of India.

Monsoons are seasonal winds that blow steadily from the same direction for months.

Karachi is a seaport and large city in Pakistan.

Hong Kong and Macau were once controlled by a European country.

The teachings of Kongfuzi shaped China’s government and society until the early 1900s.

China’s population is about one- fifth of the world’s people.

Sri Lanka lies on an important shipping route between Asia and Africa.

The “one-country, two-system” pledge refers to China’s promise to allow Western freedoms and capitalism to exist side by side with Chinese communism.

A poem is often included with many Chinese paintings.

Sindhi and Punjabi are Pakistan’s major languages.

South Asia is separated from the rest of Asia by the Himalayas and the the Karakoram Range

India is the world’s second largest producer of rice.

Pakistan and Bangladesh are both Muslim countries.

Chinese writing uses characters that represent words or ideas instead of letters that represent sound.

The country of Taiwan is an island.

Mongolia has changed from a strict communist government to a democracy.

The Ganges and the Brahmaputra are major rivers in Bangladesh.

Buddha is also known as the “Enlightened One”.

The Muslim empire to rule India from the 1500s to the 1700s was the Mongul Empire.