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Why is Northern China so much drier than Southern China?

Both are equally hot and have large sources of water.

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Teditor

Well, first of all, northwestern China has a huge desert which doesn't provide enough moisture for ample rainfall. Next the question is why there is such a big desert in northwestern China in the first place. The answer is that Japan island and the Korean peninsula block the ocean currents that would have brought a lot moisture up north from the south Pacific.

22:42, 13 June 2011

stefbai

Northern it seldom rains ,Southern it often rains.

03:28, 13 June 2011

Robert Derbyshire

Hi Stefbai, thanks for your answer. But why does it rain more in the South?

03:37, 13 June 2011

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