![]() As of 2011, the largest economies in Asia are China, Japan, India, South Korea and Indonesia. FaunaĪsia has the second largest nominal GDP of all continents, after Europe, but the largest when measured in purchasing power parity. Tropical rainforests stretch across much of southern Asia and coniferous and deciduous forests lie farther north. The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world. The Yangtze River in China is the longest river in the continent. The Gobi Desert is in Mongolia and the Arabian Desert stretches across much of the Middle East. The most active place on Earth for tropical cyclone activity lies northeast of the Philippines and south of Japan. Siberia is one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere, and can act as a source of arctic air masses for North America. Southwestern sections of the continent are hot. The monsoon circulation dominates across southern and eastern sections, due to the presence of the Himalayas forcing the formation of a thermal low which draws in moisture during the summer. Some of the largest daily temperature ranges on Earth occur in western sections of Asia. ![]() It is moist across southeast sections, and dry across much of the interior. Climates range from arctic and subarctic in Siberia to tropical in southern India and Southeast Asia. Asia has extremely diverse climates and geographic features.
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