What countries are located in a tropical belt?

What countries are located in a tropical belt?

The tropical belt of the earth is located in Northern and Southern hemispheres from 20 degrees of northern latitude to 30 degrees of southern. Average winter temperature in its territories – 14 wasps is higher than zero, and summer – 30-35os also with the sign "plus". In a tropical belt of the planet of the territory are quite various - it is deserts, semidesertic zones and also savannas and the listopadny woods. So what countries completely and partially are located on its extent?

The states which are partially located in a tropical belt

Such countries 13. It is Australia, Algeria, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Egypt, not all recognized Western Sahara, China, Libya, the UAE, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan and Chile.

In these states there are so-called trade winds – the winds all the year round walking in tropics. In the Northern hemisphere they blow from the northeast, and in Youzhny – from the southeast.

Residents of the above countries as any others suffer the impact of the expressed seasonal temperature changes of air. And they are especially strong not on islands, and in a continental zone: the more deeply – the stronger. As for precipitation, they are not too plentiful – only 50-150 millimeters a year. Exceptions in this rule make only coasts of continents on which long-awaited moisture comes from the outside oceans. For example, in a tropical belt of the continent Africa precipitation drops out in the winter, and in the summer they almost completely are absent.

The countries which more than a half of the area are in a belt

This list is more extensive. The largest of them – Ethiopia, banana Ecuador, Philippines, Uganda, Chad, Thailand, Tanzania, Sudan, the USA, Somalia with the pirates, Rwanda, Peru, Panama, Oman, Nicaragua, Mali, Malaysia, Congo, Kenya, Cameroon, Zambia, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Yemen, Brunei and others. In total such countries more than 40. Tropical territories provide about a quarter of the world land with various types of soil formation, a various plant and animal life. Geographers carry a part of a tropical belt to the ancient continent Gondwana, and, according to the true location of the land on the card, in this zone there is a most part of terrestrial coral reeves including the Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Barrier Reef extended along the northeast coast of Australia is considered the world's largest coral education. Extent – 2.5 thousand kilometers, the area – 344 square kilometers.

There are in a tropical belt also mountainous states, and in both hemispheres. They have more changeable climate, than the countries without noticeable heights. Nevertheless it is a little similar territories as semidesertic and desert landscapes prevail nevertheless. Hot climate in a tropical belt also does many states which are in it, "tidbit" for the tourists liking to get warm in the sun and to be bought in salty sea water.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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