Cotton is one of the most important cash crops supplying raw material to an extensive textile industry. It is a widely grown crop in areas of warm subtropical climate, typically on the equatorial side of the mid-latitudes. Among the cotton producing countries the first rank goes to China. The major areas of production in China lie in the floodplains of the major rivers in the northeastern part of the country.
Large units where sheep are reared in Australia are called sheep stations. The term applied to large animal farms inSouth America is estancias. The ranches or sheep stations consist of large areas of natural pasture and also the ranch house and some area devoted to supplementary feed crops.
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is the biggest sea by size. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan.
The Gulf of Guinea is the northeastern most part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. In this Gulf, there happens the intersection of the Equator and the Prime Meridian (zero degree latitude and longitude).
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