Asia Political Map - Vinyl - A0 Size 84.1 x 118.9 cm

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North Asia, also Northern Asia, consists of the Russian Federation east of the Ural Mountains: the Ural region, Siberia, and the Russian Far East. In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; [115] it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively. He reports that Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus, but that Lydians say it was named after Asies, son of Cotys, who passed the name on to a tribe at Sardis. Geographic Regions" anklicken Zitat: "The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations.

Based on Global Office Locations 2011, Asia dominated the office locations with 4 of the top 5 being in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. Covers the area north to Uzbekistan and western China, south to Sri Lanka, west to Afghanistan, and east to Burma. In geologic terms, Asia comprises several very ancient continental platforms and other blocks of land that merged over the eons.Roller, Eratosthenes' Geography, Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-691-14267-8, Eratosthenes (24 January 2010). The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, [12] was the site of many of the first civilizations. The map shows the Indomalaya ecozone, one of the eight great ecozones (or biogeographic realms) that cover Earth's surface. It nicely shows all of Asia, the Middle East, most of Europe, and parts of Africa, Indonesia and Australia.

Kag chode, a Buddhist temple in the village of Kagbeni in Mustang, the former Kingdom of Lo, in Nepal.

Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population (about 60% of the world's population), but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely populated regions. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). According to Citigroup in 2011, 9 of 11 Global Growth Generators countries came from Asia driven by population and income growth. Additionally we offer a range of different wallpaper finish options including smooth, laminated and magnetic lined wallpaper. The Middle East was contested and partitioned by the British and French, [56] while Southeast Asia was carved up between the British, Dutch and French.

citation needed] Anaximander placed the boundary between Asia and Europe along the Phasis River (the modern Rioni river) in Georgia of Caucasus (from its mouth by Poti on the Black Sea coast, through the Surami Pass and along the Kura River to the Caspian Sea), a convention still followed by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. The capital city of Thailand is the nation's cultural and commercial center and a major transportation hub in Southeast Asia. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The Modern World: Civilizations of Africa, Civilizations of Europe, Civilizations of the Americas, Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific. The terms Southeast Asia and Oceania, devised in the 19th century, have had several vastly different geographic meanings since their inception.As of 2023 [update], China is by far the largest economy on the continent, making up nearly half of the continent's economy by GDP nominal. When Western explorers reached South and East Asia in early modern times, they extended that label to the whole of the immense landmass. Nonetheless, Asia, the most populous of the continents, contains some three-fifths of the world’s people. Note that the written permission of the copyright owners and/or other rights holders (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions.