New geographies . o (Fig. 286), lives. Itis situated on the largestisland, and is nearly as large as , the seaport of Tokyo, is acity of about one third of a millioninhabitants. Korea was an indepentTfent kingdom until afew years ago, when Japan seized it during herwar with Russia. Like China, it is a very-backward nation, and, until recently, foreign-ers were not allowed to enter the chief industry is agriculture, but thereare extensive forests and valuable mineral de-posits. 6. India and the Countries East of it India, the central one of the three pen-insulas on t
New geographies . o (Fig. 286), lives. Itis situated on the largestisland, and is nearly as large as , the seaport of Tokyo, is acity of about one third of a millioninhabitants. Korea was an indepentTfent kingdom until afew years ago, when Japan seized it during herwar with Russia. Like China, it is a very-backward nation, and, until recently, foreign-ers were not allowed to enter the chief industry is agriculture, but thereare extensive forests and valuable mineral de-posits. 6. India and the Countries East of it India, the central one of the three pen-insulas on the southern side of Asia, isabout half as large as the Area and popu-United States, but it con- lationtains more than three times as manypeople. The peninsula east of India includesseveral countries, with many millions ofinhabitants. The largest of these isFrench Indo-China, which is larger thanFrance and England together, while Siamis almost as large. Burma, also on thispeninsula, is a part of the Indian _^ii^?r;>-^5^ Fig. 287. — A Burmese working woman carrying her child. The greater part of these two largepeninulas is under the control of Euro-pean nations. The lions xhe controlshare belongs to the British, of this vastwho rule India and much of ^^^wnthe peninsula east of it. On Figure 310trace the British possessions; the Frenchpossessions. Siam is an independentcountry. This is the part of the world that Co-lumbus was seeking when he discovered 228 WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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