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Continent: ASIA
Asia Asia is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the East by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the Indian Ocean, and to the West by Europe and the Mediterranean. A continent of contrasts and extremes, the enormous diversity of Asia’s physical and cultural landscape is unparalleled in the world. Although geographers have clubbed its constituent nations and regions as part of one large continent, Asia defies all notions of homogeneity. Asia includes some of the world’s richest and developed economies like Japan and Korea but is also home to some of the world’s poorest nations. Asia has the highest point on Earth, the Mount Everest in the Himalayas, as well as the lowest place on land, the Dead Sea. Asia also experiences the wildest extremes of weather and climate. While the continent boasts of the wettest place on Earth in the Indian state of Meghalaya, certain areas in the Arabian Desert may go without rainfall for years together. Asia also has the widest variety of plant and animal life; from tropical rainforests to desert scrubland; from the world’s largest reptile, the Komodo Dragon of Indonesia, to the shy and elusive Snow Leopard in the high reaches of the Himalayas.

Area	43,810,582 km² (16,915,360.3 sq mi)
Population	4,050,404,193 (1st)
Density	89.07/km² (230.7)/sq mi)
Demonym	Asian
No. of countries	37
Countries	Asian countries AfghanistanArmeniaAzerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar(formerly Burma) Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka South Korea Syria Republic of China(Taiwan) Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Dependencies	Asian dependencies Akrotiri and DhekeliaBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryChristmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Unrecognized Republics & Regions	Unrecognized Asian countries & regions AbkhaziaGaza Strip (Palestine)Nagorno-Karabakh South Ossetia Taiwan Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus West Bank (Palestine)
Languages	Asian languages more than 50 million native speakers:ArabicArmenian Azerbaijani Bengali Burmese Cantonese (Chinese) Divehi Dzongkha English Filipino Greek Hebrew Hindi Indonesian Japanese Javanese Kazakh Khmer Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz Lao Malay Mandarin (Chinese) Marathi Nepali Min (Taiwanese/Chinese) Mongolian Persian Portuguese Punjabi Russian Sinhalese Tajik Tamil Telugu Tetum Thai Turkish Turkmen Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Wu (Chinese)
Time Zones	+2 to +12+2+3+3:30 +4 +4:30 +4:51 +5 +5:30 +5:40 +5:45 +6 +6:30 +7 +7:20 +7:30 +8 +8:30 +8:45 +9 +9:30 +10 +10:30 +11 +11:30 +12
Internet TLD	.asia, many others
Largest Cities	Largest Cities in AsiaTokyoSeoulMumbai Jakarta Osaka Shanghai Manila Hong Kong Tehran Kolkata Beijing

Name of region andterritory, with flag	Area(km²)	Population (1 July 2008 est.)	Population density(per km²)	Capital
Central Asia:
Kazakhstan	2,346,927	15,340,533	5.7	Astana
Kyrgyzstan	198,500	5,356,869	24.3	Bishkek
Tajikistan	143,100	7,211,884	47.0	Dushanbe
Turkmenistan	488,100	5,179,573	9.6	Ashgabat
Uzbekistan	447,400	28,268,441	57.1	Tashkent
Eastern Asia:
China	9,584,492	1,322,044,605	134.0	Beijing
Hong Kong, China	1,092	7,903,334	6,688.0	—
Japan	377,835	127,288,628	336.1	Tokyo
Macau, China	25	460,823	18,473.3	—
Mongolia	1,565,000	2,996,082	1.7	Ulaanbaatar
North Korea	120,540	23,479,095	184.4	Pyongyang
South Korea	98,480	49,232,844	490.7	Seoul
Republic of China (Taiwan)	35,980	22,920,946	626.7	Taipei
Northern Africa:
Egypt	980,869	81,713,517	21.7	Cairo
Northern Asia:
Russia	13,115,200	140,702,092	3.0	Moscow
Southeastern Asia:
Brunei	5,770	381,371	60.8	Bandar Seri Begawan
Cambodia	181,040	14,241,640	70.6	Phnom Penh
East Timor (Timor-Leste)	15,007	1,108,777	63.5	Dili
Indonesia	1,419,588	237,512,355	159.9	Jakarta
Laos	236,800	6,677,534	24.4	Vientiane
Malaysia	329,750	25,274,135	68.7	Kuala Lumpur
Myanmar (Burma)	678,500	47,758,224	62.3	Naypyidaw
Philippines	300,000	92,681,453	281.8	Manila
Singapore	704	4,608,167	6,369.0	Singapore
Thailand	514,000	65,493,298	121.3	Bangkok
Vietnam	331,690	86,116,559	246.1	Hanoi
Southern Asia:
Afghanistan	647,500	32,738,775	42.9	Kabul
Bangladesh	144,000	153,546,901	926.2	Dhaka
Bhutan	47,000	682,321	14.3	Thimphu
India	3,167,590	1,147,995,226	318.2	New Delhi
Iran	1,648,195	65,875,223	42	Tehran
Maldives	300	379,174	1,067.2	Malé
Nepal	140,800	29,519,114	183.8	Kathmandu
Pakistan	803,940	167,762,049	183.7	Islamabad
Sri Lanka	65,610	21,128,773	298.4	Colombo
Western Asia:
Armenia	29,800	2,968,586	111.7	Yerevan
Azerbaijan	46,870	3,845,127	82.0	Baku
Bahrain	665	718,306	987.1	Manama
Cyprus	9,250	792,604	83.9	Nicosia
Gaza	363	1,537,269	3,315.7	Gaza
Georgia	20,460	4,630,841	99.3	Tbilisi
Iraq	437,072	28,221,181	54.9	Baghdad
Israel	20,770	7,112,359	290.3	Jerusalem
Jordan	92,300	6,198,677	57.5	Amman
Kuwait	17,820	2,596,561	118.5	Kuwait City
Lebanon	10,452	3,971,941	353.6	Beirut
Oman	212,460	3,311,640	12.8	Muscat
Qatar	11,437	928,635	69.4	Doha
Saudi Arabia	1,960,582	23,513,330	12.0	>Riyadh
Syria	185,180	19,747,586	92.6	Damascus
Turkey	756,768	71,892,807	76.5	Ankara
United Arab Emirates	82,880	4,621,399	29.5	Abu Dhabi
West Bank	5,860	2,611,904	393.1	—
Yemen	527,970	23,013,376	35.4	Sanaá
Total	43,810,582	4,050,404,193	89.07
Previous Name Year Current Name East Pakistan 1971 Bangladesh , People’s Republic of Kampuchea , Democratic 1975 Cambodia , Kingdom of Portuguese Timor 1975 East Timor , Democratic Republic of Dutch East Indies 1949 Indonesia , Republic of Persian Empire 1935 Iran , Republic of Transjordan 1946 Jordan , Kingdom of Kirghizia (USSR) 1991 Kyrgyzstan , Republic Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore 1963 alaysia Burma 1989 Myanmar , Union of Muscat 1971 Oman , Sultanate of West Pakistan 1971 Pakistan , Republic of Hejaz -Nejd , The Kingdom of 1932 Saudi Arabia , Kingdom of Aden 1970 South Yemen , People’s Republic of Ceylon 1972 Sri Lanka , Democratic Socialist Republic of Formosa , Republic 1945 Taiwan Tajik S.S.R 1991 Tajikistan , Republic of Siam 1939 Thailand , Kingdom of Ottoman Empire 1923 Turkey , Republic of Turkmen SSR (USSR) 1991 Turkmenistan Trucial Oman & >Trucial States 1971 United Arab Emirates French Indo-China 1949 Vietnam , Socialist Republic of Yemen , People’s Democratic & Southern Yemen 1970 Yemen , Republic of