It gets really hot only in the big cities, which consists of a small area. For the vast majority in the west or the north, like cities of Urumqi, Hohhot and Harbin, they only have about 3 months of frost-free period.
"For the vast majority in the west or the north, like cities of Urumqi, Hohhot and Harbin, they only have about 3 months of frost-free period."
That's a massive exaggeration. I used to live near Harbin, and the summers there were pretty damn hot. You'd also get about 6-7 frost-free months, not just 3. It's also not just the big cities that get really hot either - pretty much all of China excluding really mountainous places like Tibet get really hot in the summer. It's just that places like NE/NW China & Tibet get extremely cold in the winter.
Can conform Hohhot is not that cold. It is generally hot in the summer. Only in the winter does it become cold, around October or Novermber to March or April.
It's a very simplistic method. They only take the highest and lowest temperature measured in the whole country every day to calculate the average annual temperature.
It's a simplistic method that takes average annual temperature for the country as a whole, not factoring in where the clusters of population happen to live.
But why would population locations be relevant? The quiz is about temperatures within a country, not about temperatures where most people experience them.
JetPunk, the ultimate authority on many issues including this one, considers them to be in Asia. But to be honest it is arbitrary. Just as long as you have Germany in Europe, South Africa in Africa and Japan in Asia, I don't really care where you draw the exact borders.
It's really not that arbitrary...at least no more so than any political boundary. Geographically, the border between Europe and Asia is widely considered to be the Ural mountains, the Caucasus mountains, and the Bosphorus Strait. Georgia and Armenia are south of the Caucasus mountains, so are geographically in Asia, even if they may be more closely associated with Europe culturally.
Why are those the boundaries? In order for it not to be arbitrary you need to give a reason other than "that's just where the border is generally considered to be". Boundaries between continents are not primarily political, though they can be implicated in some political decisions such as which countries are eligible to enter the EU, and political boundaries are sometimes a lot less arbitrary (though some are even more arbitrary and just lie along some parallel or meridian).
That's why I qualified my statement by saying it was no more arbitrary than other boundaries. You can argue why Europe and Asia are even two separate continents. Because people widely agree they are, that's why. The Ural mountains and the Caucasus mountains are huge natural barriers between areas generally considered to be Europe and those generally considered to be Asia. Where else would you put the boundary if you are considering them different continents?
Most people probably think of Central Asia. Armenia is further west and Bhutan is south near India, which people might associate with warm temperatures.
That's a massive exaggeration. I used to live near Harbin, and the summers there were pretty damn hot. You'd also get about 6-7 frost-free months, not just 3. It's also not just the big cities that get really hot either - pretty much all of China excluding really mountainous places like Tibet get really hot in the summer. It's just that places like NE/NW China & Tibet get extremely cold in the winter.
I will see myself out
Its pretty cold near the black sea parts and north eastern parts