This document discusses the natural resources of several world regions, including Southeast Asia, East Asia, Europe, and North America. It provides details on the land, minerals, forests, and other natural resources found in countries within these regions. Some key points include that Southeast Asia has significant coal reserves and forests, while East Asian countries have less arable land but natural gas, coal, and metals. European countries have abundant forests and fertile soils. North America has substantial energy resources.

1.  NATURAL RESOURCES OF
SOUTHEAST ASIA
COUNTRIES
 NATURAL RESOURCES OF
EAST ASIA COUNTRIES
 NATURAL RESOURCES OF
EUROPE COUNTRIES
 WEALTH OF NATURAL
RESOURCES OF NORTH
NATURAL RESOURCES

2. NATURAL RESOURCES OF
SOUTHEAST ASIA COUNTRIES

3. LAND IN SOUTEAST ASIA
COUNTRIES

4. • Southeast Asia, region of Asia situated
east of the Indian subcontinent and south of
China.
• It consists of two dissimilar portions: a
continental projection (commonly called
mainland Southeast Asia) and a string of
archipelagoes to the south and east of the
mainland (insular Southeast Asia).

5. Mainland Southeast Asia is divided into the countries
of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand,
Vietnam, and the small city-state of Singapore at the
southern tip of the Malay Peninsula; Cambodia,
Laos, and Vietnam, which occupy the eastern portion
of the mainland,
The land has been subjected to a considerable
amount of faulting, folding, uplifting, and volcanic
activity over geologic time, and much of the region
is mountainous. There are marked structural
differences between the mainland and insular
portions of the region.

6. Insular Southeast Asia
Characteristic of insular (or archipelagic) Southeast
Asia are the chains of islands—the Malay and
Philippine archipelagoes—that have been formed along
the boundaries of the three crustal segments of the
Earth that meet there.
Southeast Asia stretches some 4,000 miles at its
greatest extent (roughly from northwest to southeast)
and encompasses some 5,000,000 square miles
(13,000,000 square kilometres) of land and sea, of
which about 1,736,000 square miles is land. Mount
Hkakabo in northern Myanmar on the border with
China, at 19,295 feet (5,881 metres), is the highest
peak of mainland Southeast Asia.

7. MINERALS IN SOUTHEAST
ASIA COUNTRIES

8. • The southeast Asia, Australia, and
western Pacific region includes the
countries of Australia, Bhutan,
Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, East
Timor, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, the Marshal Islands, Nauru,
Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand,
Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the
Pitcairn Islands, the Solomon Islands, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam is an
important part of the Global Mineral
Resource .

9. • COAL • Petroleum and
natural gas
• Antarctica
• Europe
• North America
• Africa
• South America
• At least two-thirds of
the world’s
known crude oil and
natural gas reserves
are found in Asia; the
proportion may prove
Asia has enormous reserves of
coal, amounting to nearly three-
fifths of the world’s total, but they
are unevenly distributed.
The largest reserves are found
in Siberia, the Central Asian
republics, India, and
especially China; Indonesia,
Japan, and North Korea have
smaller but nevertheless
economically important
reserves.

10. • URANIUM • IRON
• The Philippines
exports ore. Malaysia
produces a
considerable volume.
Thailand, Myanmar,
and Pakistan have
fair amounts of
relatively low-grade
ores, and Vietnam
and Turkey have
good ores in
substantial volume.
Indonesia and India
Reserves of
uranium ore are
found in Asia’s
ancient crystalline
rocks.
China and India have
their own deposits.
Chinese uranium
resources are thought to
be in northern Xinjiang
and southern Hunan
provinces.

11. FOREST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
COUNTRIES

12. • The forest area, percentage of land area
accounted for by forests, and growing stock
in forests (volume of trees comprising
forests) have been indicated in the tables
and figures for the SOUTHEAST ASIA
countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines,
Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam,
Singapore and Japan .
• But it is also the country with the largest
decline in its forest area. Large swaths of
forest continue to be felled, and over the

13. These forest resources are used as materials in the form of lumber
products such as furniture, plywood, and paper and pulp, or are
used for energy in the form of wood fuel.
Due to rapidly expanding demand, these countries are now faced
with the problem of depleting their natural forest resources.

14. NATURAL RESOURCES OF
EAST ASIA COUNTRIES

15. LAND IN EAST ASIA COUNTRIES

16. • East Asian countries have little farmable
land , but large population .
• Therefore , they need to maximixe the land
they do have .
Terraces
Raising livestock is
rare
Doubles—cropping :
growing two crops on the
same land in a single year

17. MINERALS IN EAST ASIA
COUNTRIES

18. Coal
Natural
gas
Japan
Coal
Iron
North
Korea

19. Coal
Cooper
China
Graphite
South
Korea

20. FOREST IN EAST ASIA
COUNTRIES

21. • Part of East Asia have large forests .
• However , the nations of the region , like
those in other parts of the world , have not
treated their forests carefully .
• Now many East Asian countries are forced
to import much of their wood .

22. NATURAL RESOURCES OF
EUROPE COUNTRIES

23. FOREST IN EUROPE
COUNTRIES

24. • What is Forest Europe?
• FOREST EUROPE (The brand name of the
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of
Forests in Europe) is the pan-European
voluntary high-level political process for
dialogue and cooperation on forest policies
in Europe.
• FOREST EUROPE develops common
strategies for its 47 signatories (46
European countries and the European
Union) on how to protect and sustainably

25. FERTILE SOILS IN EUROPE
COUNTRIES

26. • Europe is a wealthy region and a world
leader in economic development .
• Part of this wealth and success comes from
Europe rich supply of natural resources .
• Europe most important natural resources
includes fertile soil , water and fuels .

27. MARINE RESOURCES IN
EUROPE COUNTRIES

28. • No formal map yet exists of Europe
marine territory .
• Many commercial fish stocks are not
assessed .
• Poor overview of spatial extent of
human activities .
• Insufficient regional coordination for
sharing and harmonising marine data
.
• Europe reporting obligations with
high numbers of unknowns or not

29. ENERGY SOURCES IN
EUROPE COUNTRIES

30. • Norway is fully integrated into the
internal energy market under the EEA
Agreement.
• Norway exports nearly 95 % of its gas
production and 98 % of its oil production
to the European markets. About a third of
the EUs natural gas imports comes from
Norway, second in volume only to
Russian gas. Norwegian natural gas can
play an important role in the transition to
a low-carbon economy.
• Norway is among the world’s largest

31. RESOURCES FOR US
MANUFACTURING

32. • The Total Energy Profile of Manufactured
Products
• A product’s energy lifecycle describes its total
energy impact, including all stages of its
manufacture through the end of its operating
life and includes its eventual disposal.
Historically, if industry had any interest in
energy consumption, it ended when products
were finished and shipped. Today, however,
because consumers are increasingly
concerned with the energy consumed by their
appliances, cars and homes, manufacturers
should be, too. And at the end of a product’s