Geography of chosen country per continent

1. GEOGRAPHY OF
CHOSEN COUNTRY
PER CONTINENT
By: Marc Augustus T. Garcia / Xavier Rivera

2. India is part of the continent of Asia. Most of
India forms a peninsula, which means it is
surrounded by water on three sides.
Asia : India

3. India
 The world's highest mountain range, the
Himalaya, rises in the north. The southeast is
bordered by the Bay of Bengal, and the southwest
is bordered by the Arabian Sea.
 India's terrain varies widely, from the Thar Desert
in the west to jungles in the northeast. A fertile
area called the Ganges Plain covers much of
northern India. This formation was created from
soil that was deposited by rivers running from the
Himalaya. In some places, this layer of silt is over
25,000 feet (7,620 meters) deep.

4. FAST FACTS
 OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of India, Bharat
 FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
 CAPITAL: New Delhi
 POPULATION: 1,296,834,042
 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Hindi, English, 21 others
 MONEY: Rupee
 AREA: 1,269,345 square miles (3,287,590 square
kilometers)
 MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGE: Himalaya
 MAJOR RIVERS: Ganges, Yamuna, Indus,
Brahmaputra

5. Without the Nile River, all of Egypt would be desert.
Only about an inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain falls
throughout Egypt each year.
Africa- Egypt

6. Egypt
 But each summer, the river rises because of
rains at its source far to the south in Ethiopia.
Floods cover the river's valleys, leaving
sediments needed for trees, plants, and crops
to grow.
 Egypt is often divided into two sections: Upper
Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the
north. The sections are named this way
because the Nile flows from south to north.
The river empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

7.  Southern Egypt's landscape contains low
mountains and desert. Northern Egypt has
wide valleys near the Nile and desert to the
east and west. North of Cairo, the capital, is
the sprawling, triangular Nile River Delta. This
fertile land is completely covered with farms.

8. FAST FACTS
 OFFICIAL NAME: arab republic of egyptFFICIAL
NAME: Arab Republic of Egypt
 FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Republic
 CAPITAL: :Cairo
 POPULATION: 99,413,317
 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: Arabic
 MONEY: Egyptian pound
 AREA: 386,662 square miles (1,001,449 square
kilometers)
 MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Eastern Highlands
 MAJOR RIVER: Nile

9. Ecuador is located in the western corner at the top of the
South American continent. Ecuador is named after the
Equator, the imaginary line around the Earth that splits
the country in two. Most of the country is in the Southern
Hemisphere.
North America- Ecuador

10. Ecuador
 Ecuador is roughly the size of Colorado and is
bordered by Colombia and Peru. The high Andes
Mountains form the backbone of the country.
Cotopaxi in the Andes is the highest active
volcano in the world.
 The Galápagos Islands, 596 miles (960
kilometers) west of the mainland of Ecuador are
part of Ecuador and are home to unique reptiles,
birds, and plants. The Costa, or coastal plain
region is where many of the world’s bananas are
grown. The Sierra is also made up of farmland.
The Oriente is east of the Andes and is rich in oil.

11. FAST FACTS
 OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Ecuador
 FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Republic
 CAPITAL: Quito
 POPULATION: 16,498,502
 AREA: 109,483 square miles (283,560 square
kilometers)
 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, Quechua
 MONEY: U.S. dollar

12. Located between the Caribbean Sea and the North
Atlantic Ocean, Haiti occupies the western one-third of
the island of Hispaniola. The Dominican Republic borders
Haiti on the eastern side of the island.
South America-Haiti

13. Haiti
 Haiti’s closest neighbors include Jamaica to
the west and Cuba to the northwest.
 Hayti means "land of the mountains” in the
Indigenous, or native, Taíno language. The
country’s highest peak, Pic la Selle, is part of
the Massif de la Selle range located in
southeastern Haiti and reaches nearly 9,000
feet (2,715 meters).

14.  The island sits at the edge of a huge
geological slab of rock just below the Earth’s
surface, called a tectonic plate; when the plate
shifts, it can cause an earthquake. Because of
Haiti’s position on the edge of the plate, the
country has a long history of very strong
earthquakes that cause major damage. A
massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the
country in August 2021. Experts estimate that
over 2,000 people were killed and nearly
150,000 buildings were damaged or
destroyed.

15. FAST FACTS
 OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Haiti
 FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Semi-presidential
republic
 CAPITAL: Port-au-Prince
 POPULATION: 11,562,675
 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: French, Haitian Creole
 MONEY: Gourde
 AREA: 10,714 square miles (27,750 square
kilometers)
 MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Massif de la Selle,
Massif du Nord

16. Switzerland is a small mountainous country located in
central Europe. This landlocked country is about the size
of New Jersey and is between France and Italy. It is also
bordered by Austria, Germany, and Liechtenstein.
Europe-Switzerland

17. Switzerland
 Most of the population lives in the plateau
which is between the high Alps in the south
and the Jura mountains in the north. The
mountainous area in the south is sparsely
populated

18. FAST FACTS
 OFFICIAL NAME: The Swiss Confederation
 POPULATION: 8,292,809
 CAPITAL: Bern
 AREA: 15,940 square miles (41,284 square
kilometers)
 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: German, French, Italian,
Romansch
 MONEY: Swiss franc
 MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGES: Jura, Alps
 MAJOR RIVERS: Rhône, Rhine

19. Fiji, country and archipelago in the South Pacific
Ocean. It surrounds the Koro Sea about 1,300 miles
(2,100 km) north of Aucklan.
Australia- Fiji

20. Fiji
 The archipelago consists of some 300 islands and
540 islets scattered over about 1,000,000 square
miles (3,000,000 square km). Of the 300 islands,
about 100 are inhabited. The capital, Suva, is on
the southeast coast of the largest island, Viti
Levu (“Great Fiji”).d, New Zealand.
 Fiji has a complex geologic history. Based on a
submerged platform of ancient formation, the Fiji
islands are largely the product of volcanic action,
sedimentary deposit, and formations of coral. Viti
Levu has an area of about 4,000 square miles
(10,000 square km) and accounts for more than
half of Fiji’s land area.

21.  A jagged dividing range running from north to
south has several peaks above 3,000 feet (900
metres), including Tomanivi (formerly Mount
Victoria), at 4,344 feet (1,324 metres) the highest
point in Fiji. The main river systems—the Rewa,
Navua, Sigatoka (Singatoka), and Ba (Mba)—all
have their headwaters in the central mountain
area. To the southeast and southwest, as well as
to the south where the range divides, the
mountains give way to plateaus and then
lowlands. The coastal plains in the west,
northwest, and southeast account for less than
one-fifth of Viti Levu’s area but are the main
centres of agriculture and settlement.