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Asia
Alternative meanings: Asia (mythology), Asia Minor.
Satellite image of Asia (partial)
Extent
1. The continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya. See also Eurasia.
2. The region of Asia is the continent of Asia plus nearby islands.
Subregions of Asia include:
About 60% of the people in the world live in Asia.
List of countries/dependencies by population density
in inhabitants/km˛.
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 Russia, Egypt, and Turkey are referred to in the table, although they are only partly in Asia. Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been included, although they can also be considered part of Europe.
West Bank and Gaza Strip are not listed separately, but combined as Palestinian territories.
country
pop. dens.
area
population
(km-2)
(km2)
(2002-07-01 est.)
Macau (PRC)
18,000
25
461,833
Hong Kong (PRC)
6,688
1,092
7,303,334
Singapore
6,430
693
4,452,732
Maldives
1,070
300
320,165
Bahrain
987
665
656,397
Bangladesh
926
144,000
133,376,684
Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu)
627
35,980
22,548,009
Palestinian territories
545
6,220
3,389,578
South Korea
491
98,480
48,324,000
Lebanon
354
10,400
3,677,780
Japan
336
377,835
126,974,628
India
318
3,287,590
1,045,845,226
Sri Lanka
298
65,610
19,576,783
Israel
290
20,770
6,029,529
Philippines
282
300,000
84,525,639
Vietnam
246
329,560
81,098,416
North Korea
184
120,540
22,224,195
Nepal
184
140,800
25,873,917
Pakistan
184
803,940
147,663,429
People's Republic of China (Mainland)
134
9,596,960
1,284,303,705
Thailand
121
514,000
62,354,402
Indonesia
121
1,919,440
231,328,092
Kuwait
118
17,820
2,111,561
Armenia
112
29,800
3,330,099
Syria
93
185,180
17,155,814
Azerbaijan
90
86,600
7,798,497
Turkey
86
780,580
67,308,928
Georgia
71
69,700
4,960,951
Cambodia
71
181,040
12,775,324
Egypt
71
1,001,450
70,712,345
Qatar
69
11,437
793,341
Malaysia
69
329,750
22,662,365
East Timor
63
15,007
952,618
Myanmar
62
678,500
42,238,224
Brunei
61
5,770
350,898
Jordan
58
92,300
5,307,470
Uzbekistan
57
447,400
25,563,441
Iraq
55
437,072
24,001,816
Tajikistan
47
143,100
6,719,567
Bhutan
45
47,000
2,094,176
Afghanistan
43
647,500
27,755,775
Iran
40
1,648,000
66,622,704
Yemen
35
527,970
18,701,257
United Arab Emirates
30
82,,880
2,445,989
Laos
24
236,800
5,777,180
Kyrgyzstan
24
198,500
4,822,166
Oman
13
212,460
2,713,462
Saudi Arabia
12
1,960,582
23,513,330
Turkmenistan
9.6
488,100
4,688,963
Russia
8.5
17,075,200
144,978,573
Kazakhstan
6.2
2,717,300
16,741,519
Mongolia
1.7
1,565,000
2,694,432
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Continents of the World
Asia | Africa | North America | South America | Antarctica | Europe | Australia
(The Pacific Islands, also called Oceania, are not part of any continent)
Countries of the World | Asia
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
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