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Regional land areas of Asia

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Baluchistan

Baluchistan, or Balochistan, is a dry plateau in southwestern Asia covering parts of Iran and Pakistan, bounded by the Arabian Sea and the Sulaiman Mountains.

Hamgyong - Sanmaek

Hamgyong - Sanmaek, FEOW ecoregion 640, a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers freshwater ecoregion on the northeastern Korean Peninsula, with short steep monsoon rivers, masu salmon, endemic cyprinids, and estuarine habitats.

Magna Hungaria

Magna Hungaria, Latin for Great Hungary, is the medieval name for a region between the Volga and the Urals where Hungarians still lived in the 13th century.

Malukku

Malukku (FEOW ecoregion 747) is a freshwater ecoregion of the Maluku Islands, Indonesia, in the Australasia realm, tropical and subtropical coastal rivers type, with three endemic gobies and monsoonal, amphidromous-dominated short coastal rivers.

Upper Indus

The Upper Indus, also called the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), is the mountainous headwater of the Indus River above Tarbela Dam, spanning the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya.

Western Mongolia

Western Mongolia is FEOW freshwater ecoregion 622, an endorheic basin region covering Uvs Nuur, the Great Lakes Valley, and the Hovd and Zavkhan rivers, with about 75% endemic fish and rapid warming.

Western Transcaucasia

Western Transcaucasia is a freshwater ecoregion of temperate coastal rivers in the Palearctic realm, covering Black Sea drainages across Russia, Georgia, and Turkey from Novorossiysk to the Yesil Irmak.