
Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. geology and geography, however, Asia is not considered a continent or a subcontinent. The exact boundaries are vaguely defined, especially between Asia and Europe: the demarcation between Asia and Africa is the isthmus of Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus (according to others, through the Kuma-Manych Depression), the Caspian Sea, the Ural River (according to others, the Emba River) and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya. About 60 percent of the world's population live in Asia. Asia as a political division consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans, often excluding Russia. ==Etymology== The word "Asia" is speculated to be from the Akkadian word ''asu'', which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Moreover, some consider that "Europe" is also derived from Akkadian as a mirror of "Asia". It bears a striking similarity to the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is the land of the rising sun where the west (Europe) is the land of the setting sun. An alternative explanation is that the word Asia is rooted in a Greek language term given originally to the plains of Ephesus in Anatolia, and later to the lands beyond it. ==Subregions== See also Geography of Asia. As already mentioned, Asia is a subregion of Eurasia. For further subdivisions based on that term, see North Eurasia and Central Eurasia. Some Asian countries stretch beyond Asia. See Bicontinental country for details about the borderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and Oceania. Asia itself is often divided in the following subregions: *North Asia *Central Asia *East Asia *Southeast Asia *South Asia *Southwest Asia (or West Asia) ===North Asia=== This term is rarely used by geographers, but usually it refers to the bigger Asian part of Russia, also known as Siberia. Sometimes the northern parts of other Asian nations, such as Kazakhstan are also included in Northern Asia. ===Central Asia=== There is no absolute consensus in the usage of this term. Usually, Central Asia includes: * the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan (excluding its small Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Europe territory), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. * Afghanistan, Mongolia, and the western regions of China are also sometimes included. * Former Soviet states in the Caucasus region. Central Asia is currently geopolitically important because international disputes and conflicts over oil pipelines, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Chechnya, as well as the presence of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. ===East Asia=== This area includes: * The Pacific Ocean islands of Taiwan and Japan. * North Korea and South Korea on the Korean Peninsula. * China, but sometimes only the eastern regions Sometimes the nations of Mongolia and Vietnam are also included in East Asia. More informally, Southeast Asia, is included in East Asia on some occasions. ===Southeast Asia=== This region contains the Malay Peninsula, Indochina and islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. The countries it contains are: * In Indochina, the countries Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. * In Maritime Southeast Asia, the countries of Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia (Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Oceania of the Indonesian islands also lie in the Melanesia region of Oceania). East Timor (also Melanesian) is sometimes included too. The country of Malaysia is divided in two by the South China Sea, and thus has both a mainland and island part. ===South Asia=== South Asia is also referred to as the Indian Subcontinent. It includes: * the Himalayan States of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. * the Indian Ocean nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. ===Southwest Asia (or West Asia)=== This can also be called by the Western term ''Middle East'', which is commonly used by Europeans and Americans. ''Middle East'' (to some interpretations) is often used to also refer to some countries in North Africa. Southwest Asia can be further divided into: * Anatolia (i.e. Asia Minor), constituting the Asian Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Europe Turkey. * The island nation of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. * The Levant or Near East, which includes Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and the Asian Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Africa of Egypt. * The Arabian peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen and occasionally Kuwait. * The Caucasus region, including Armenia, a tiny portion of Russia and almost the whole of Georgia (country) and Azerbaijan. * The Iranian Plateau, containing Iran and parts of other nations. Also see Gulf States, for a different grouping involving several of the above countries. ==Economy== ''Main article: Economy of Asia'' {| style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width:300px; float:right;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" |+ Economy of Asia
During 2003 unless otherwise stated |- |Population: | 4.001 billion (2002) |- |Gross domestic product (List of countries by GDP (PPP)): |US$18.077 trillion |- |Gross domestic product (List of countries by GDP): | $8.782 trillion |- |GDP/capita (List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita): | $4,518 |- |GDP/capita (List of countries by GDP (Nominal) per capita): | $2,195 |- |Annual growth of
per capita GDP: | |- |Income of top 10%: | |- | Millionaires: | 2.0 million (0.05%) |- |Unemployment | |- |Estimated female
income | |- | align="center" colspan="2" | Most numbers are from the UNDP from 2002, some numbers exclude certain countries for lack of information. |- | align="center" colspan="2" | |} In terms of gross domestic product, Asia's largest economy is Japan, and the smallest is East Timor, (although as of 2005 there is no reliable data for Iraq or North Korea). Japan is the world's second largest economy, and North Korea is one of the poorest. As of 2005, China's and India's economies have been growing rapidly. Trade blocs: *Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation *Association of Southeast Asian Nations *Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement *Commonwealth of Independent States *South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation *South Asia Free Trade Agreement (proposed) ===Natural resources=== Asia is by a considerable margin the largest in the world, and is rich in natural resources, such as Petroleum and iron. High productivity in agriculture, especially of rice, allows high population density of countries in the warm and humid area. Other main agricultural products include wheat and chicken. Forestry is extensive throughout Asia except Southwest and Central Asia. Fishing is a major source of food in Asia, particularly in Japan. ===Manufacturing=== Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The industry varies from manufacturing cheap goods such as toys to high-tech goods such as computers and automobiles. Many companies from Europe, North America, and Japan have significant operations in the developing Asia to take avantage of its abundant supply of cheap labor. One of the major employers in manufacturing in Asia is the textile industry. Much of the world's supply of clothing and footwear now originates in Southeast Asia. ===Financial and other services=== Asia has three main financial centers. They are in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. Call centers are becoming major employers in India, due to the availablity of many well-educated English speakers. The rise of the business process outsourcing industry has seen the rise of India and China as the other financial centers. ==Early history== ''Main article: History of Asia'' The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe. The coastal periphery was the first to be home to civilization, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys. The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yangtze River shared many similarities and likely exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel. Other notions such as that of writing likely developed individually in each area. Cities, states and empires developed in these lowlands. The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of Asia. The earliest known such central expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, India, and in the Tocharians to the borders of China. The northern part of Asia, covering much of Siberia, was inaccessible to the steppe nomads, due to the dense forests and the tundra. These areas were very sparsely populated. The centre and periphery were kept separate by mountains and desserts. The Caucuses, Himalaya, Karakum Desert and Gobi Desert formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could only cross with difficulty. While technologically and culturally, the urban city dwellers were more advanced, they could do little militarily to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe. However, the lowlands did not have enough open grasslands to support a large horsebound force. Thus the nomads who conquered states in China, India, and the Middle East were soon forced to adapt to the local societies. ==Population density== The following table lists countries and dependencies by population density in inhabitants and km2. Unlike the figures in the country articles, the figures in this table are based on areas including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers) and may therefore be lower here. The whole of Egypt, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are referred to in the table, although they are only Countries in both Europe and Asia in Asia. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are not listed separately, but combined as Palestinian territories. {| style="text-align:right"; |- bgcolor="#F0EBAA" style="text-align:center"; ! country ! pop. dens. ! area ! population |- bgcolor="#F0EBAA" style="text-align:center"; ! ! (/km2) ! (km2) ! (2002-07-01 est.) |- | align="left" | Macau (PRC) | 18,000 | 25 | 461,833 |- | align="left" | Hong Kong (PRC) | 6,688 | 1,092 | 7,303,334 |- | align="left" | Singapore | 6,430 | 693 | 4,452,732 |- | align="left" | Maldives | 1,070 | 300 | 320,165 |- | align="left" | Bahrain | 987 | 665 | 656,397 |- | align="left" | Bangladesh | 926 | 144,000 | 133,376,684 |- | align="left" | Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu Islands) | 627 | 35,980 | 22,548,009 |- | align="left" | Palestinian territories | 545 | 6,220 | 3,389,578 |- | align="left" | South Korea | 491 | 98,480 | 48,324,000 |- | align="left" | Lebanon | 354 | 10,400 | 3,677,780 |- | align="left" | Japan | 336 | 377,835 | 126,974,628 |- | align="left" | India | 318 | 3,287,590 | 1,045,845,226 |- | align="left" | Sri Lanka | 298 | 65,610 | 19,576,783 |- | align="left" | Israel | 290 | 20,770 | 6,029,529 |- | align="left" | Philippines | 282 | 300,000 | 84,525,639 |- | align="left" | Vietnam | 246 | 329,560 | 81,098,416 |- | align="left" | North Korea | 184 | 120,540 | 22,224,195 |- | align="left" | Nepal | 184 | 140,800 | 25,873,917 |- | align="left" | Pakistan | 184 | 803,940 | 147,663,429 |- | align="left" | People's Republic of China (Mainland China) | 134 | 9,596,960 | 1,284,303,705 |- | align="left" | Thailand | 121 | 514,000 | 62,354,402 |- | align="left" | Indonesia | 121 | 1,919,440 | 231,328,092 |- | align="left" | Kuwait | 118 | 17,820 | 2,111,561 |- | align="left" | Armenia | 112 | 29,800 | 3,330,099 |- | align="left" | Syria | 93 | 185,180 | 17,155,814 |- | align="left" | Azerbaijan | 90 | 86,600 | 7,798,497 |- | align="left" | Turkey | 86 | 780,580 | 67,308,928 |- | align="left" | Cyprus | 83 | 9,250 | 775,927 |- | align="left" | Georgia (country) | 71 | 69,700 | 4,960,951 |- | align="left" | Cambodia | 71 | 181,040 | 12,775,324 |- | align="left" | Egypt | 71 | 1,001,450 | 70,712,345 |- | align="left" | Qatar | 69 | 11,437 | 793,341 |- | align="left" | Malaysia | 69 | 329,750 | 22,662,365 |- | align="left" | East Timor | 63 | 15,007 | 952,618 |- | align="left" | Myanmar | 62 | 678,500 | 42,238,224 |- | align="left" | Brunei | 61 | 5,770 | 350,898 |- | align="left" | Jordan | 58 | 92,300 | 5,307,470 |- | align="left" | Uzbekistan | 57 | 447,400 | 25,563,441 |- | align="left" | Iraq | 55 | 437,072 | 24,001,816 |- | align="left" | Tajikistan | 47 | 143,100 | 6,719,567 |- | align="left" | Bhutan | 45 | 47,000 | 2,094,176 |- | align="left" | Afghanistan | 43 | 647,500 | 27,755,775 |- | align="left" | Iran | 40 | 1,648,000 | 66,622,704 |- | align="left" | Yemen | 35 | 527,970 | 18,701,257 |- | align="left" | United Arab Emirates | 30 | 82,880 | 2,445,989 |- | align="left" | Laos | 24 | 236,800 | 5,777,180 |- | align="left" | Kyrgyzstan | 24 | 198,500 | 4,822,166 |- | align="left" | Oman | 13 | 212,460 | 2,713,462 |- | align="left" | Saudi Arabia | 12 | 1,960,582 | 23,513,330 |- | align="left" | Turkmenistan | 9.6 | 488,100 | 4,688,963 |- | align="left" | Russia | 8.5 | 17,075,200 | 144,978,573 |- | align="left" | Kazakhstan | 6.2 | 2,717,300 | 16,741,519 |- | align="left" | Mongolia | 1.7 | 1,565,000 | 2,694,432 |- style="font-weight:bold;" | align="left" | Total | 80.5 | 49,694,698 | 4,000,601,258 |} ==Religion== A large majority of the people in the world who practice a religious faith practice one which was founded in Asia. Religions founded in Asia and with a majority of their contemporary adherents in Asia include: *Bahá'í Faith (not much more than half of adherents in Asia) *Buddhism *Hinduism *Islam *Jainism *Shinto *Sikhism *Taoism *Zoroastrianism Religions founded in Asia that have the majority of their contemporary adherents in other regions include: *Christianity *Judaism (not far short of half of adherents in Asia) ==See also== *Arzawa *Asia Minor ==External links== *http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html *http://www.freeworldmaps.net/asia/index.html Continents Asia bn:এশিয়া bs:Azija fa:قارهی آسیا ga:An Áise ht:Azi hi:एशिया sw:Asia la:Asia li:Azië ms:Asia zh-min-nan:A-chiu nds:Asien se:Ásia simple:Asia su:Asia th:ทวีปเอเชีย
==West== *What is West Asia meant to refer to? **Usually, the term West Asia is a synonym for the Middle East, or southwest Asia. If the part of Russia west of the Ural Mountains was considered to be part of Asia, that would obviously make up a large part of (north)west Asia, but that's considered to be in Europe. Hope this helped! ---- The description of the seperation between Europe and Asia says "The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont...". Now, according to the page on Hellespont, that word is simply the ancient name for Dardanelles. So, shouldn't Hellespont be replaced by Bosphorus? User:Gyan 01:30 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC) ---- Can someone please make a color coded map of what they differentiate between West, Central, SW, East, North, South and SE Asia? ---- A term: Greater Central Asia; meaning that of Asia that the Central Asian Republics have been influenced etc, http://www.international-relations.com/wbeurasia/WBEA-2003-Lec1.htm == Cyrpus missing from the table, but included in the "Southwest asia"-region == in the table with countries Cyprus is missing (maybe becouse it is island) - this should be fixed (maybe with a note that it also is regareded as european country for xxx reasons - see the "Europe"-page) == Area of cross-continent countries == In the table with area sizes - the area for Turkey mentions the whole area of Turkey, including european part. Maybe this should change to include only the asian part. This is the Asia page, so when we list the area of some country we should list it's ASIAN territory - or at least a note should pe placed that gives explanation: Turkey total XXX sq.km = YYY asian + ZZZ european. Other cross-continent countries have similar ommissions - Russia, Azerbaidjan, etc. - see Europe page for details. Similar case with Egypth - both asian and african territories, no distiction, no note ... == Suggest 3 possible wiki links for Asia. == An User:Nickj/Link_Suggester has some possible wiki link suggestions for the Asia article: * Can link land mass:...ned by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great landmass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially...
::landmass dabs to continent, which is already used. This link would not enhance the article. --User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 11:38, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Can link island nation: ...]], which comprises part of the nation of Turkey * The Island nation of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea.... (Asia#Southwest Asia)
::Implemented. --User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 12:06, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Can link West Bank and Gaza Strip: ...uded, although they can also be considered part of Europe. West Bank and Gaza Strip are not listed separately, but combined as Palestinian terr... (Asia#Population density)
::West Bank and Gaza Strip dabs to the individual territories so this is not an enhancement. --User:TheoClarke User_talk:TheoClarke 12:24, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
''Notes'': The article text has not been changed in any way; Some of these suggestions may be wrong, some may be right.
''User talk:LinkBot'': User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Positive Feedback, User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Negative Feedback, User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Don't link to — User:LinkBot 11:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) --User:BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Sentences ok? == Are those sentences from the Southwest Asia section ok? "Middle East is especially commonly used by Americans (althought frequently incorrectly - as though 'Middle East' and 'Asia' or 'Middle East' and 'Africa' are 2 different regions). 'Middle East' (to some interpretations) is occasionally used to also refer to countries in North Africa." --User:BrendanRyan 08:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I'm afraid I think they need some work. The first one is just confusing. I think I know what you are getting at, but it might be clearer if expanded somewhat. I wouldn't use the term "incorrect". These are overlapping designations used for different purposes. It is not like someone has tried to divide the world into a set of discreet regions and accidently put some countries in two. Some people do not understand the distinctions between the terms, but that doesn't mean the terms themselves are "incorrect", just that some people are bad at geography. ::I asked about those sentences because they were written by the same person who wrote really POV stuff in the North Asia article.--User:BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I don't think the inclusion of parts of North Africa in the Middle East is only "occasional" so I'm going to change that myself. User:Pcpcpc 01:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==satellite image== Cantus, you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asia&diff=next&oldid=10848220 removed] my xplanet image, re-inserting the Plate Carrée Projection projection (without comment). Now, the reason I created that image was because that projection results in ''extreme'' distortion when showing a variation in latitude as great as required to show the entirety of Asia. I argue that the simulated 'satellite view' gives a superior impression of the shape as well as the size of the continent in relation to the globe. User:Dbachmann User_talk:Dbachmann 17:47, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Asia is not a continent?? == Recently, I saw someone edit Asia (disambiguation) saying "Asia is not a continent". Anyone able to put this in detail?? User:Georgia guy 01:11, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) : I did. Read Eurasia and Talk:Europe#continent or not. Geologists and geographers agree that ''the Asian continent'' doesn't exist; Eurasia does. Dividing Eurasia into Asia and Europe is a cultural distinction by Westerners. They may be separate regions, but they are not separate continents. Europe is geologically a peninsula of Eurasia, not even a subcontinent. - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 01:27, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC) ::Presenting as a fact that Asia is not considered a continent is just wrong. Why? Because plenty of people consider it to be a continent, "Westerners" are also people you know. Wikipedia should not present this POV as a fact. --User:Biekko 23:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::This is not a POV. In daily speech, the term ''continent'' refers to a world region including surrounding islands, thus Great Britain is a part of Europe and Japan is a part of Asia. Neither of them is a part of a geographical continent. Just see a map, and you'll see they are islands. - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 01:11, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC) == Manufacturing == The examples of companies and such is heavily Japanese. I think five countries are listed as being heavy manufacturers, maybe someone can make the list five examples, one from each, rather than four japanese and a korean company? User:SchmuckyTheCat 21:54, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) :The current ratio is appropriate. The economy section of this article should be deleted though, because it is in the Economy of Asia. The followings are Asian companies in the top 100 in [http://www.forbes.com/2003/07/07/internationaland.html the Forbes International 500] (2003). :Japan: :: 4. Toyota Motor :: 5. Mitsubishi :: 6. Mitsui & Co. :: 9. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone :: 11. Itochu :: 14. Sumitomo :: 15. Marubeni :: 16. Hitachi :: 17. Honda Motor :: 20. Sony :: 21. Matsushita Electric Industrial :: 24. Nissan Motor :: 25. Nissho Iwai-Nichimen :: 37. Toshiba :: 50. Tokyo Electric Power :: 53. NEC :: 54. Fujitsu :: 66. Mitsubishi Motors :: 73. Mitsubishi Electric :: 79. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial :: 85. Mizuho Financial :: 87. Ito-Yokado :: 93. Nippon Oil :: 95. Aeon :: 96. Millea Holdings :: 98. Canon ::100. KDDI :South Korea: :: 35. Samsung Electronics :: 65. Samsung :: 97. LG Electronics :China (including Hong Kong): :: 52. China Petroleum & Chemical :: 75. PetroChina :No company of other countries is listed in the top 100. India's largest one is Indian Oil Corp (#118), and Taiwan's largest one is Cathay Financial (#183). :Japan is too big to fit well in the Asian economy — Japan's nominal GDP is $4.7 trillion, while Asia's total nominal GDP is only $8.8 trillion, which means Japan accounts for more than a half of the economy of Asia. Japan, and perhaps South Korea, should be categorized in ''the economy of developed nations'' or something, not in the economy of Asia. The current version of this article has the following sentence, which is rather silly because there is no cheap labor in Japan, an economical half of Asia: ::''Many Western companies from Europe and North America have significant operations in Asia to take avantage of its abundant supply of cheap labour.'' : - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 09:15, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
{| align="center" class="toccolours" cellspacing="0" |- bgcolor="#ccccff" | align="center" | Countries of the world in Asia |- align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" | Afghanistan | Armenia1 | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | People's Republic of China | Cyprus1 | East Timor | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia (country)1 | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Lebanon | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Qatar | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | South Korea | Sri Lanka | Syria | Republic of China | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | West Bank | Yemen |- | style="font-size: 85%" | 1. Usually assigned to Asia geographically, but nonetheless often thought of as Europe#independent states for cultural and historical reasons. |}Asian countries
Is this going to replace mediawiki:East_Asia, mediawiki:South_Asia etc? --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 05:04, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) :No, I have only added
Afghanistan | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | China | Cyprus | East Timor | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Lebanon | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Qatar | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | South Korea | Sri Lanka | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | West Bank | Yemen Template:Central Asia
Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Mongolia | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan Template:East Asia
China | Japan | North Korea | South Korea | Taiwan Template:Southeast Asia
Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam Template:South Asia
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Afghanistan | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Cyprus | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Oman | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Syria | Turkey | United Arab Emirates | West Bank | Yemen North Asia consists of Siberia (Russia) only. --User:Cantus 07:36, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) I tinkered with it a bit. I put the Transcaucasia countries in Central Asia and I am contemplating putting Mongolia in East Asia. But other than that, the list is unchanged. User:WhisperToMe 06:12, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :These groups have been defined by experts, I encourage you not to change them. --User:Cantus 07:15, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) East Asia claims Mongolia is part of it. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 07:50, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Corrected. --User:Cantus 08:07, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Those definitions are not the only ones that are used. There are different ways to divide Asia into regions. Not everyone defines the countries of Transcaucasia as in Southwest Asia. For instance, my world geography textbook doesn't. Some people include Pakistan as part of Southwest Asia. User:WhisperToMe 20:23, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) BTW, my textbook is from 2002. User:WhisperToMe 22:26, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. geology and geography, however, Asia is not considered a continent or a subcontinent. The exact boundaries are vaguely defined, especially between Asia and Europe: the demarcation between Asia and Africa is the isthmus of Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus (according to others, through the Kuma-Manych Depression), the Caspian Sea, the Ural River (according to others, the Emba River) and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya. About 60 percent of the world's population live in Asia. Asia as a political division consists of the part of Eurasia and nearby islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans, often excluding Russia. ==Etymology== The word "Asia" is speculated to be from the Akkadian word ''asu'', which means "to go out" or "to rise", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East. Moreover, some consider that "Europe" is also derived from Akkadian as a mirror of "Asia". It bears a striking similarity to the Semitic word 'erebu', which means "to set". From a Middle Eastern perspective, the east (Asia) is the land of the rising sun where the west (Europe) is the land of the setting sun. An alternative explanation is that the word Asia is rooted in a Greek language term given originally to the plains of Ephesus in Anatolia, and later to the lands beyond it. ==Subregions== See also Geography of Asia. As already mentioned, Asia is a subregion of Eurasia. For further subdivisions based on that term, see North Eurasia and Central Eurasia. Some Asian countries stretch beyond Asia. See Bicontinental country for details about the borderline cases between Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa and Asia and Oceania. Asia itself is often divided in the following subregions: *North Asia *Central Asia *East Asia *Southeast Asia *South Asia *Southwest Asia (or West Asia) ===North Asia=== This term is rarely used by geographers, but usually it refers to the bigger Asian part of Russia, also known as Siberia. Sometimes the northern parts of other Asian nations, such as Kazakhstan are also included in Northern Asia. ===Central Asia=== There is no absolute consensus in the usage of this term. Usually, Central Asia includes: * the Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan (excluding its small Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Europe territory), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. * Afghanistan, Mongolia, and the western regions of China are also sometimes included. * Former Soviet states in the Caucasus region. Central Asia is currently geopolitically important because international disputes and conflicts over oil pipelines, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Chechnya, as well as the presence of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan. ===East Asia=== This area includes: * The Pacific Ocean islands of Taiwan and Japan. * North Korea and South Korea on the Korean Peninsula. * China, but sometimes only the eastern regions Sometimes the nations of Mongolia and Vietnam are also included in East Asia. More informally, Southeast Asia, is included in East Asia on some occasions. ===Southeast Asia=== This region contains the Malay Peninsula, Indochina and islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. The countries it contains are: * In Indochina, the countries Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. * In Maritime Southeast Asia, the countries of Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia (Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Oceania of the Indonesian islands also lie in the Melanesia region of Oceania). East Timor (also Melanesian) is sometimes included too. The country of Malaysia is divided in two by the South China Sea, and thus has both a mainland and island part. ===South Asia=== South Asia is also referred to as the Indian Subcontinent. It includes: * the Himalayan States of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. * the Indian Ocean nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. ===Southwest Asia (or West Asia)=== This can also be called by the Western term ''Middle East'', which is commonly used by Europeans and Americans. ''Middle East'' (to some interpretations) is often used to also refer to some countries in North Africa. Southwest Asia can be further divided into: * Anatolia (i.e. Asia Minor), constituting the Asian Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Europe Turkey. * The island nation of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. * The Levant or Near East, which includes Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and the Asian Bicontinental country#Countries in both Asia and Africa of Egypt. * The Arabian peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen and occasionally Kuwait. * The Caucasus region, including Armenia, a tiny portion of Russia and almost the whole of Georgia (country) and Azerbaijan. * The Iranian Plateau, containing Iran and parts of other nations. Also see Gulf States, for a different grouping involving several of the above countries. ==Economy== ''Main article: Economy of Asia'' {| style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width:300px; float:right;" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" |+ Economy of Asia
During 2003 unless otherwise stated |- |Population: | 4.001 billion (2002) |- |Gross domestic product (List of countries by GDP (PPP)): |US$18.077 trillion |- |Gross domestic product (List of countries by GDP): | $8.782 trillion |- |GDP/capita (List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita): | $4,518 |- |GDP/capita (List of countries by GDP (Nominal) per capita): | $2,195 |- |Annual growth of
per capita GDP: | |- |Income of top 10%: | |- | Millionaires: | 2.0 million (0.05%) |- |Unemployment | |- |Estimated female
income | |- | align="center" colspan="2" | Most numbers are from the UNDP from 2002, some numbers exclude certain countries for lack of information. |- | align="center" colspan="2" | |} In terms of gross domestic product, Asia's largest economy is Japan, and the smallest is East Timor, (although as of 2005 there is no reliable data for Iraq or North Korea). Japan is the world's second largest economy, and North Korea is one of the poorest. As of 2005, China's and India's economies have been growing rapidly. Trade blocs: *Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation *Association of Southeast Asian Nations *Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement *Commonwealth of Independent States *South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation *South Asia Free Trade Agreement (proposed) ===Natural resources=== Asia is by a considerable margin the largest in the world, and is rich in natural resources, such as Petroleum and iron. High productivity in agriculture, especially of rice, allows high population density of countries in the warm and humid area. Other main agricultural products include wheat and chicken. Forestry is extensive throughout Asia except Southwest and Central Asia. Fishing is a major source of food in Asia, particularly in Japan. ===Manufacturing=== Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The industry varies from manufacturing cheap goods such as toys to high-tech goods such as computers and automobiles. Many companies from Europe, North America, and Japan have significant operations in the developing Asia to take avantage of its abundant supply of cheap labor. One of the major employers in manufacturing in Asia is the textile industry. Much of the world's supply of clothing and footwear now originates in Southeast Asia. ===Financial and other services=== Asia has three main financial centers. They are in Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. Call centers are becoming major employers in India, due to the availablity of many well-educated English speakers. The rise of the business process outsourcing industry has seen the rise of India and China as the other financial centers. ==Early history== ''Main article: History of Asia'' The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe. The coastal periphery was the first to be home to civilization, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys. The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yangtze River shared many similarities and likely exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel. Other notions such as that of writing likely developed individually in each area. Cities, states and empires developed in these lowlands. The steppe region had long been inhabited by mounted nomads, and from the central steppes they could reach all areas of Asia. The earliest known such central expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, India, and in the Tocharians to the borders of China. The northern part of Asia, covering much of Siberia, was inaccessible to the steppe nomads, due to the dense forests and the tundra. These areas were very sparsely populated. The centre and periphery were kept separate by mountains and desserts. The Caucuses, Himalaya, Karakum Desert and Gobi Desert formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could only cross with difficulty. While technologically and culturally, the urban city dwellers were more advanced, they could do little militarily to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe. However, the lowlands did not have enough open grasslands to support a large horsebound force. Thus the nomads who conquered states in China, India, and the Middle East were soon forced to adapt to the local societies. ==Population density== The following table lists countries and dependencies by population density in inhabitants and km2. Unlike the figures in the country articles, the figures in this table are based on areas including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers) and may therefore be lower here. The whole of Egypt, Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey are referred to in the table, although they are only Countries in both Europe and Asia in Asia. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are not listed separately, but combined as Palestinian territories. {| style="text-align:right"; |- bgcolor="#F0EBAA" style="text-align:center"; ! country ! pop. dens. ! area ! population |- bgcolor="#F0EBAA" style="text-align:center"; ! ! (/km2) ! (km2) ! (2002-07-01 est.) |- | align="left" | Macau (PRC) | 18,000 | 25 | 461,833 |- | align="left" | Hong Kong (PRC) | 6,688 | 1,092 | 7,303,334 |- | align="left" | Singapore | 6,430 | 693 | 4,452,732 |- | align="left" | Maldives | 1,070 | 300 | 320,165 |- | align="left" | Bahrain | 987 | 665 | 656,397 |- | align="left" | Bangladesh | 926 | 144,000 | 133,376,684 |- | align="left" | Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu Islands) | 627 | 35,980 | 22,548,009 |- | align="left" | Palestinian territories | 545 | 6,220 | 3,389,578 |- | align="left" | South Korea | 491 | 98,480 | 48,324,000 |- | align="left" | Lebanon | 354 | 10,400 | 3,677,780 |- | align="left" | Japan | 336 | 377,835 | 126,974,628 |- | align="left" | India | 318 | 3,287,590 | 1,045,845,226 |- | align="left" | Sri Lanka | 298 | 65,610 | 19,576,783 |- | align="left" | Israel | 290 | 20,770 | 6,029,529 |- | align="left" | Philippines | 282 | 300,000 | 84,525,639 |- | align="left" | Vietnam | 246 | 329,560 | 81,098,416 |- | align="left" | North Korea | 184 | 120,540 | 22,224,195 |- | align="left" | Nepal | 184 | 140,800 | 25,873,917 |- | align="left" | Pakistan | 184 | 803,940 | 147,663,429 |- | align="left" | People's Republic of China (Mainland China) | 134 | 9,596,960 | 1,284,303,705 |- | align="left" | Thailand | 121 | 514,000 | 62,354,402 |- | align="left" | Indonesia | 121 | 1,919,440 | 231,328,092 |- | align="left" | Kuwait | 118 | 17,820 | 2,111,561 |- | align="left" | Armenia | 112 | 29,800 | 3,330,099 |- | align="left" | Syria | 93 | 185,180 | 17,155,814 |- | align="left" | Azerbaijan | 90 | 86,600 | 7,798,497 |- | align="left" | Turkey | 86 | 780,580 | 67,308,928 |- | align="left" | Cyprus | 83 | 9,250 | 775,927 |- | align="left" | Georgia (country) | 71 | 69,700 | 4,960,951 |- | align="left" | Cambodia | 71 | 181,040 | 12,775,324 |- | align="left" | Egypt | 71 | 1,001,450 | 70,712,345 |- | align="left" | Qatar | 69 | 11,437 | 793,341 |- | align="left" | Malaysia | 69 | 329,750 | 22,662,365 |- | align="left" | East Timor | 63 | 15,007 | 952,618 |- | align="left" | Myanmar | 62 | 678,500 | 42,238,224 |- | align="left" | Brunei | 61 | 5,770 | 350,898 |- | align="left" | Jordan | 58 | 92,300 | 5,307,470 |- | align="left" | Uzbekistan | 57 | 447,400 | 25,563,441 |- | align="left" | Iraq | 55 | 437,072 | 24,001,816 |- | align="left" | Tajikistan | 47 | 143,100 | 6,719,567 |- | align="left" | Bhutan | 45 | 47,000 | 2,094,176 |- | align="left" | Afghanistan | 43 | 647,500 | 27,755,775 |- | align="left" | Iran | 40 | 1,648,000 | 66,622,704 |- | align="left" | Yemen | 35 | 527,970 | 18,701,257 |- | align="left" | United Arab Emirates | 30 | 82,880 | 2,445,989 |- | align="left" | Laos | 24 | 236,800 | 5,777,180 |- | align="left" | Kyrgyzstan | 24 | 198,500 | 4,822,166 |- | align="left" | Oman | 13 | 212,460 | 2,713,462 |- | align="left" | Saudi Arabia | 12 | 1,960,582 | 23,513,330 |- | align="left" | Turkmenistan | 9.6 | 488,100 | 4,688,963 |- | align="left" | Russia | 8.5 | 17,075,200 | 144,978,573 |- | align="left" | Kazakhstan | 6.2 | 2,717,300 | 16,741,519 |- | align="left" | Mongolia | 1.7 | 1,565,000 | 2,694,432 |- style="font-weight:bold;" | align="left" | Total | 80.5 | 49,694,698 | 4,000,601,258 |} ==Religion== A large majority of the people in the world who practice a religious faith practice one which was founded in Asia. Religions founded in Asia and with a majority of their contemporary adherents in Asia include: *Bahá'í Faith (not much more than half of adherents in Asia) *Buddhism *Hinduism *Islam *Jainism *Shinto *Sikhism *Taoism *Zoroastrianism Religions founded in Asia that have the majority of their contemporary adherents in other regions include: *Christianity *Judaism (not far short of half of adherents in Asia) ==See also== *Arzawa *Asia Minor ==External links== *http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html *http://www.freeworldmaps.net/asia/index.html Continents Asia bn:এশিয়া bs:Azija fa:قارهی آسیا ga:An Áise ht:Azi hi:एशिया sw:Asia la:Asia li:Azië ms:Asia zh-min-nan:A-chiu nds:Asien se:Ásia simple:Asia su:Asia th:ทวีปเอเชีย
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==West== *What is West Asia meant to refer to? **Usually, the term West Asia is a synonym for the Middle East, or southwest Asia. If the part of Russia west of the Ural Mountains was considered to be part of Asia, that would obviously make up a large part of (north)west Asia, but that's considered to be in Europe. Hope this helped! ---- The description of the seperation between Europe and Asia says "The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont...". Now, according to the page on Hellespont, that word is simply the ancient name for Dardanelles. So, shouldn't Hellespont be replaced by Bosphorus? User:Gyan 01:30 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC) ---- Can someone please make a color coded map of what they differentiate between West, Central, SW, East, North, South and SE Asia? ---- A term: Greater Central Asia; meaning that of Asia that the Central Asian Republics have been influenced etc, http://www.international-relations.com/wbeurasia/WBEA-2003-Lec1.htm == Cyrpus missing from the table, but included in the "Southwest asia"-region == in the table with countries Cyprus is missing (maybe becouse it is island) - this should be fixed (maybe with a note that it also is regareded as european country for xxx reasons - see the "Europe"-page) == Area of cross-continent countries == In the table with area sizes - the area for Turkey mentions the whole area of Turkey, including european part. Maybe this should change to include only the asian part. This is the Asia page, so when we list the area of some country we should list it's ASIAN territory - or at least a note should pe placed that gives explanation: Turkey total XXX sq.km = YYY asian + ZZZ european. Other cross-continent countries have similar ommissions - Russia, Azerbaidjan, etc. - see Europe page for details. Similar case with Egypth - both asian and african territories, no distiction, no note ... == Suggest 3 possible wiki links for Asia. == An User:Nickj/Link_Suggester has some possible wiki link suggestions for the Asia article: * Can link land mass:
''User talk:LinkBot'': User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Positive Feedback, User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Negative Feedback, User:Nickj/Link Suggester/Don't link to — User:LinkBot 11:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC) --User:BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Sentences ok? == Are those sentences from the Southwest Asia section ok? "Middle East is especially commonly used by Americans (althought frequently incorrectly - as though 'Middle East' and 'Asia' or 'Middle East' and 'Africa' are 2 different regions). 'Middle East' (to some interpretations) is occasionally used to also refer to countries in North Africa." --User:BrendanRyan 08:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I'm afraid I think they need some work. The first one is just confusing. I think I know what you are getting at, but it might be clearer if expanded somewhat. I wouldn't use the term "incorrect". These are overlapping designations used for different purposes. It is not like someone has tried to divide the world into a set of discreet regions and accidently put some countries in two. Some people do not understand the distinctions between the terms, but that doesn't mean the terms themselves are "incorrect", just that some people are bad at geography. ::I asked about those sentences because they were written by the same person who wrote really POV stuff in the North Asia article.--User:BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC) :I don't think the inclusion of parts of North Africa in the Middle East is only "occasional" so I'm going to change that myself. User:Pcpcpc 01:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==satellite image== Cantus, you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asia&diff=next&oldid=10848220 removed] my xplanet image, re-inserting the Plate Carrée Projection projection (without comment). Now, the reason I created that image was because that projection results in ''extreme'' distortion when showing a variation in latitude as great as required to show the entirety of Asia. I argue that the simulated 'satellite view' gives a superior impression of the shape as well as the size of the continent in relation to the globe. User:Dbachmann User_talk:Dbachmann 17:47, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC) == Asia is not a continent?? == Recently, I saw someone edit Asia (disambiguation) saying "Asia is not a continent". Anyone able to put this in detail?? User:Georgia guy 01:11, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC) : I did. Read Eurasia and Talk:Europe#continent or not. Geologists and geographers agree that ''the Asian continent'' doesn't exist; Eurasia does. Dividing Eurasia into Asia and Europe is a cultural distinction by Westerners. They may be separate regions, but they are not separate continents. Europe is geologically a peninsula of Eurasia, not even a subcontinent. - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 01:27, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC) ::Presenting as a fact that Asia is not considered a continent is just wrong. Why? Because plenty of people consider it to be a continent, "Westerners" are also people you know. Wikipedia should not present this POV as a fact. --User:Biekko 23:00, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::This is not a POV. In daily speech, the term ''continent'' refers to a world region including surrounding islands, thus Great Britain is a part of Europe and Japan is a part of Asia. Neither of them is a part of a geographical continent. Just see a map, and you'll see they are islands. - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 01:11, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC) == Manufacturing == The examples of companies and such is heavily Japanese. I think five countries are listed as being heavy manufacturers, maybe someone can make the list five examples, one from each, rather than four japanese and a korean company? User:SchmuckyTheCat 21:54, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) :The current ratio is appropriate. The economy section of this article should be deleted though, because it is in the Economy of Asia. The followings are Asian companies in the top 100 in [http://www.forbes.com/2003/07/07/internationaland.html the Forbes International 500] (2003). :Japan: :: 4. Toyota Motor :: 5. Mitsubishi :: 6. Mitsui & Co. :: 9. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone :: 11. Itochu :: 14. Sumitomo :: 15. Marubeni :: 16. Hitachi :: 17. Honda Motor :: 20. Sony :: 21. Matsushita Electric Industrial :: 24. Nissan Motor :: 25. Nissho Iwai-Nichimen :: 37. Toshiba :: 50. Tokyo Electric Power :: 53. NEC :: 54. Fujitsu :: 66. Mitsubishi Motors :: 73. Mitsubishi Electric :: 79. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial :: 85. Mizuho Financial :: 87. Ito-Yokado :: 93. Nippon Oil :: 95. Aeon :: 96. Millea Holdings :: 98. Canon ::100. KDDI :South Korea: :: 35. Samsung Electronics :: 65. Samsung :: 97. LG Electronics :China (including Hong Kong): :: 52. China Petroleum & Chemical :: 75. PetroChina :No company of other countries is listed in the top 100. India's largest one is Indian Oil Corp (#118), and Taiwan's largest one is Cathay Financial (#183). :Japan is too big to fit well in the Asian economy — Japan's nominal GDP is $4.7 trillion, while Asia's total nominal GDP is only $8.8 trillion, which means Japan accounts for more than a half of the economy of Asia. Japan, and perhaps South Korea, should be categorized in ''the economy of developed nations'' or something, not in the economy of Asia. The current version of this article has the following sentence, which is rather silly because there is no cheap labor in Japan, an economical half of Asia: ::''Many Western companies from Europe and North America have significant operations in Asia to take avantage of its abundant supply of cheap labour.'' : - User:TAKASUGI Shinji 09:15, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
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{| align="center" class="toccolours" cellspacing="0" |- bgcolor="#ccccff" | align="center" | Countries of the world in Asia |- align="center" style="font-size: 90%;" | Afghanistan | Armenia1 | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | People's Republic of China | Cyprus1 | East Timor | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia (country)1 | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Lebanon | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Qatar | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | South Korea | Sri Lanka | Syria | Republic of China | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | West Bank | Yemen |- | style="font-size: 85%" | 1. Usually assigned to Asia geographically, but nonetheless often thought of as Europe#independent states for cultural and historical reasons. |}Asian countries
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Is this going to replace mediawiki:East_Asia, mediawiki:South_Asia etc? --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 05:04, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) :No, I have only added
Afghanistan | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Bangladesh | Bhutan | Brunei | Cambodia | China | Cyprus | East Timor | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Jordan | Kazakhstan | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan | Laos | Lebanon | Malaysia | Maldives | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | North Korea | Oman | Pakistan | Philippines | Qatar | Russia | Saudi Arabia | Singapore | South Korea | Sri Lanka | Syria | Taiwan | Tajikistan | Thailand | Turkey | Turkmenistan | United Arab Emirates | Uzbekistan | Vietnam | West Bank | Yemen Template:Central Asia
Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Mongolia | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan Template:East Asia
China | Japan | North Korea | South Korea | Taiwan Template:Southeast Asia
Brunei | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Laos | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | Vietnam Template:South Asia
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Afghanistan | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Bahrain | Cyprus | Egypt | Gaza Strip | Georgia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Jordan | Kuwait | Lebanon | Oman | Qatar | Saudi Arabia | Syria | Turkey | United Arab Emirates | West Bank | Yemen North Asia consists of Siberia (Russia) only. --User:Cantus 07:36, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) I tinkered with it a bit. I put the Transcaucasia countries in Central Asia and I am contemplating putting Mongolia in East Asia. But other than that, the list is unchanged. User:WhisperToMe 06:12, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :These groups have been defined by experts, I encourage you not to change them. --User:Cantus 07:15, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) East Asia claims Mongolia is part of it. --User:JiangUser talk:Jiang 07:50, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Corrected. --User:Cantus 08:07, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) :Those definitions are not the only ones that are used. There are different ways to divide Asia into regions. Not everyone defines the countries of Transcaucasia as in Southwest Asia. For instance, my world geography textbook doesn't. Some people include Pakistan as part of Southwest Asia. User:WhisperToMe 20:23, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) BTW, my textbook is from 2002. User:WhisperToMe 22:26, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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The continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. About 60% of the world's population live in Asia. The region of Asia is the continent of Asia plus nearby islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans. It also includes Indonesia. Geography Continents fa:Category:آسیا ka:კატეგორია:აზია la:Categoria:Asia li:Kategorie:Azië lv:Category:Āzija minnan:Category:A-chiu ms:Category:Asia na:Category:Asia nds:Kategorie:Asien scn:Category:Asia su:Category:Asia th:Category:ทวีปเอเชีย
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