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_____. Southeast Asia. College of DuPage GIS class, May 2022.
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East Asia
“6 Facts about South Korea’s Growing Christian Population.” Pew Research Center, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/12/6-facts-about-christianity-in-south-korea/.
Arendt, Jonathan. Japan and the Kuril Islands. College of DuPage GIS class. July 2022.
Baer, Drake. “Why South Korea Is the Plastic Surgery Capital of the World.” Business Insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-is-the-plastic-surgery-capital-of-the-world-2015-9.
Berger, Alex. Zhangjiajie National Park. February 2, 2018. Photo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwayfarer/27759205508/. Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Buckle, Mark. “Black Cat, White Cat…” China Daily, 2 Aug. 2018, https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201808/02/WS5b728ae4a310add14f385b4a.html.
Byond Travel. Hyatt Beijing China. Photo, 4 March 2020. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/byond-travel/49617456976/. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).
Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. “South China Karst.” UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Accessed September 11, 2021. https://whc.unesco/org/en/list/1248/.
Chen, shinox. Tibet. Photo, 22 Aug. 2011. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/shinox/15214160484/. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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Chow, Chapman. Johnston Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong SAR, China. 12 June 2020, https://unsplash.com/photos/Yax3uuRP6Lo.
Eversden, Andrew. “As Pelosi Arrives in Taiwan, the Big Question Is If China’s ‘fire’ Rhetoric Is Just Hot Air.” Breaking Defense, 2 Aug. 2022, https://breakingdefense.sites.breakingmedia.com/2022/08/as-pelosi-arrives-in-taiwan-the-big-question-is-if-chinas-fire-rhetoric-is-just-hot-air/.
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hangga, jonata. “Sea Logistic Icon – 4805740.” The Noun Project, https://thenounproject.com/icon/sea-logistic-4805740/.
“Hong Kong.” Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/places/hong-kong/.
“Hong Kong’s History: From Backwater to Trading Metropolis.” France 24, 28 June 2022, https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220628-hong-kong-s-history-from-backwater-to-trading-metropolis.
Iwamoto, Kentaro. “Japan Readies ‘Last Hope’ Measures to Stop Falling Births.” Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/166ce9b9-de1f-4883-8081-8ec8e4b55dfb. February 22, 2023.
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Lo, Gyal. “The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools.” New York Times, 15 Sept. 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/opinion/china-tibet-boarding-school.html.
Mikovic, Nikola. “Why Russia Will Not Return the Kuril Islands to Japan.” the interpreter, November 17, 2020. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-russia-will-not-return-kuril-islands-japan.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. “Tao-Rusyr Caldera, Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands,” March 30, 2017. Attribution 2.0 Generic. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/33582832762/.
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Ram, Prashant. The Taklamakan Desert. photo, 1 June 2013. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/stupid_dream/8863637977/. Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)
Rankin, Stuart. Composite satellite image of the Taklamakan Desert. photo. 11 November 2015. Flickr. https://cod.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/89/2021/09/TaklamakanSatelliteStuartRankinFlickr-scaled.jpg . Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Suzuki, Emi, and Haruna Kashiwase. The Curse of the Fire-Horse: How Superstition Impacted Fertility Rates in Japan. World Bank Blogs. 22 Jan. 2019, https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/curse-fire-horse-how-superstition-impacted-fertility-rates-japan.
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Wiertz, Steve. East Asia. College of DuPage GIS Class. May 2022.
_____. Japan. College of DuPage GIS class, May 2022.
_____. North and South Korea. College of DuPage GIS class. May 2022.
Wiesinger, Elsa. “Increasing Tensions In Russia-Japan Kuril Islands Dispute.” The Organization for World Peace, August 18, 2021. https://theowp.org/increasing-tensions-in-russia-japan-kuril-islands-dispute/.
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Yuan, Li. “‘Who Are Our Enemies?’ China’s Bitter Youths Embrace Mao.” The New York Times, 8 July 2021. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/china-mao.html.
Zhu, Simon. Hong Kong. Unsplash, 10 Sept. 2018, https://unsplash.com/photos/4hluhoRJokI.
South Asia
“1971 War: The Story of India’s Victory, Pak’s Surrender, Bangladesh Freedom.” Business Standard India, 16 Dec. 2018. Business Standard, https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/vijay-diwas-how-india-ended-pak-s-atrocities-and-ensured-freed-bangladesh-118121600120_1.html.
Allam, Ashish. HawaMahal, Jaipur , India. 18 February 2019. https://unsplash.com/photos/LVmwwo4I0As.
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“Bangladesh: Number of Garment Factories.” Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/987697/bangladesh-number-garment-factories/.
Bass, Gary Jonathan. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. First Edition, Alfred A Knopf, 2013.
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Beekay. Jammu and Kashmir. Photo, 17 May 2021, https://unsplash.com/photos/GCVc7KSS_9U.
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Crow, Genevieve. Tourism in the Maldive Islands. College of DuPage GIS Class, July 2022.
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Khalid, Adnan. Faisal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo, 4 Dec. 2018, https://pixabay.com/photos/mosque-architecture-religion-islam-3850279/.
Koop, Avery. “Ranked: The Most and Least Livable Cities in 2022.” Visual Capitalist, August 11, 2022. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-most-and-least-livable-cities-in-2022/.
Kubota, Azusa. “Water and Climate Change | UNDP in Bhutan.” UNDP, 20 March 2020. https://www.bt.undp.org/content/bhutan/en/home/stories/water-and-climate-change.html.
Magramo, Kathleen. “7 Million in Bangladesh Need Aid after ‘Worst Floods in Memory,’ Red Cross Says.” CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/29/asia/bangladesh-floods-millions-urgent-relief-need-intl-hnk/index.html.
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Marchant, Natalie. World Economic Forum. “Threatened by Rising Sea Levels, the Maldives Is Building a Floating City.” May 19, 2021. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/maldives-floating-city-climate-change/.
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Nabeel, Fazilda. “How India and Pakistan Are Competing over the Mighty Indus River.” Down to Earth, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/water/how-india-and-pakistan-are-competing-over-the-mighty-indus-river-63321.
“NFHS: Does India Really Have More Women than Men?” BBC News, 27 Nov. 2021. www.bbc.com, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59428011.
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Rengadurai, Roehan. Manapad. Photo, 4 Oct. 2014. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/iamroehan/15717990640/. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).
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Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious. Tamil Tigers Bicycle Platoon. Photo, 28 Oct. 2008. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/2982504462/. Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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“These Are the World’s ‘most’ and ‘Least’ Liveable Cities, Says a New Report.” Hindustan Times, 23 June 2022, https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/these-are-the-world-s-most-and-least-liveable-cities-101655959754718.html.
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Central Asia
The Annual Flow of Source Rivers (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) into the Aral Sea. ResearchGate, Oct. 2020, https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-annual-flow-of-source-rivers-the-Amu-Darya-and-the-Syr-Darya-into-the-Aral-Sea_fig5_344460701.
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_____. Kyrgyz Bread. Photo, 14 Oct. 2019. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/fran001/48897869443/. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).
“Aral Sea: Big Fish Is Back in Small Pond.” Reuters, 1 June 2017. www.reuters.com, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-aral-idUSKBN18S4ZV.
The Aral Sea Crisis. http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm.
“The Aral Sea: The Difficult Return of Water.” We Are Water, https://www.wearewater.org/en/the-aral-sea-the-difficult-return-of-water_322871.
Astana Climate, Weather By Month, Average Temperature (Kazakhstan) – Weather Spark. https://weatherspark.com/y/107257/Average-Weather-in-Astana-Kazakhstan-Year-Round.
Bachishin, Vladimir. “Nur-Sultan: A Long History of a New Capital.” The Astana Times(blog), September 17, 2021. https://astanatimes.com/2021/09/nur-sultan-a-long-history-of-a-new-capital/
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Blood, de:User:Kapitän Nemo; de:User:Captain. English: One of the Versions (Probably, 1960s Vintage) of the Russian Northern Rivers Diversion Plan. The Scheme Depicted Involves Transfer of Water from the Yenisei into the Ob, and Piping Water Upstream from the Ob via Irtysh and Ishim, and Then a Canal, toward the Aral Sea. An Actual Implementation Would Also See a Canal Skirting the Aral Sea from the East (Not Shown on This Map), to Bring Water to the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. Russia. 14 Apr. 2007. File:Russland top.png, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russland_Dawydow.PNG. Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported(CC BY-SA 3.0).
Boonman, Joseph G., and Sergei S. Mikhalev. Grassland of the World. https://www.fao.org/3/y8344e/y8344e0h.htm.
carylsue. “Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life.” National Geographic Education Blog, 21 Mar. 2018, https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/03/21/once-written-off-for-dead-the-aral-sea-is-now-full-of-life/.
Chen, Dene-Hern. The Country That Brought a Sea Back to Life. BBC. 23 July 2018. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180719-how-kazakhstan-brought-the-aral-sea-back-to-life.
“Convoluted Borders Are Hampering Central Asian Integration.” The Economist, October 31, 2019. https://www.economist.com/asia/2019/10/31/convoluted-borders-are-hampering-central-asian-integration.
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Dunning, Sam. “China Is Protecting Its Thin Corridor to the Afghan Heartland.” Foreign Policy, 14 August 2021. https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/08/14/china-afghanistan-wakhan-corridor-imperial-ambitions/.
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Foster, Kendrick. “The New Road to Conflict: Geopolitics of the Wakhan Corridor.” Harvard International Review, 5 Dec. 2019, https://hir.harvard.edu/wakhancorridor/.
Guillot, Michel, et al. “Understanding the ‘Russian Mortality Paradox’ in Central Asia: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan.” Demography, vol. 48, no. 3, Aug. 2011, pp. 1081–104, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3315848/.
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Hofmann, Erin, and Guangqing Chi. “‘Bride Kidnapping’ Haunts Rural Kyrgyzstan, Causing Young Women to Flee Their Homeland.” The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/bride-kidnapping-haunts-rural-kyrgyzstan-causing-young-women-to-flee-their-homeland-158404.
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Palumbo, Jacqui. “Inside the Futuristic Post-Soviet Capital Built on an Empty Grassland.” Artsy, August 16, 2018. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-incomparable-futuristic-architecture-worlds-youngest-capital.
Pannier, Bruce. “The Demands On Central Asia’s Great Naryn And Syr Darya Rivers.” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 7 Aug. 2021. www.rferl.org, https://www.rferl.org/a/naryn-syr-darya-rivers/31398202.html.
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