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Korean Peninsula
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South Korea (officially, Republic of Korea) encompasses an area of 98,477 sq. km. (38,022 sq. mi.). South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula bordering the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea. Its capital is Seoul (population 10.3 million); other major cities are: Busan, Daegu, Inchon, Gwangju, Daejeon, and Ulsan. The terrain of South Korea consists of forested mountain ranges separated by deep, narrow valleys and cultivated plains along the coasts.  Read More

Vermillion 380 Oil Platform, Gulf of Mexico
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The Gulf Coast of the United States stretches more than 1,600 miles from Texas to the tip of the Florida peninsula and is bounded by the Gulf of Mexico, which covers more than 700,000 square miles in Southeast North America.  Read More

Indonesia
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Indonesia, formally the Republic of Indonesia, includes more than 17,000 islands between the Indian Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean (2 million sq. km. or 736,000 sq. mi.). It is about three times the size of the state of Texas. With an overall population of 240.3 million people (July 2009) it is the world's fourth-most populous nation. The capital city of Jakarta has about 8.8 million people; other major cities include: Surabaya, Medan, and Bandung.  Read More

Pakistan, 2002
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Pakistan is located in Southern Asia bordering the Arabian Sea, between India to the east and Iran and Afghanistan to the west and China to the north. Pakistan covers an area of 803,943 sq. km., nearly twice the size of the U.S. state of California. The majority of Pakistan's population (176,243,000 July 2009, est.) lives along the Indus River valley and along an arc formed by the cities of Faisalabad, Peshawar, Lahore, and Rawalpindi/Islamabad.  Read More

Afghanistan Adminstrative Divisions, 2008
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, covers and area of 647,500 sq. km. (249,935 sq. mi.), slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas. Its capital, Kabul has an estimated population of 1,780,000; other major cities include: Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalabad, and Konduz. This landlocked country is comprised of mostly mountains and desert. Afghanistan's climate ranges from arid to semiarid with cold winters and hot summers.  Read More