Asia

Asia is home to the majority of humanity, lively cities, sublime landscapes and almost endless options. Asia varies from the mega-cities and technology capitals of to the magnificent monuments in , and from the beach bungalows and jungle treks of to the desert ruins and modern mega-malls of the .
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Top destinations include East Asia and South Asia.

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was the cradle of ancient civilizations such as Imperial China, ancient Korea, ancient Japan, and the Mongol Empire, and is today home to 1.6 billion people.

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, also known as the Indian subcontinent, is a triangular landmass bordered by the in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, and the Ganges and Indus river valleys in east and west.

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is a group of diverse tropical countries between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, featuring cultures influenced by both and and hosting large communities of Overseas Chinese.

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Explore places such as Middle East and Central Asia.

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The is a region mainly in Western Asia, between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. While the region is known for its arid climate, not all of the land consists of deserts, and contrary to common misconceptions, glaciers and deserts do indeed exist in close proximity in parts of the region.

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is a rugged, arid region, historically coveted for its position between and with the legendary Silk Route, rather than for its resources, although petroleum, natural gas, and mineral reserves have become more important in modern times.

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The is a region between the Black and Caspian Seas. It consists of , , , and . Known for its alpine terrain, the is home to Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain peak in Europe, on the Russo-Georgian border.

Asia

  • Type: Locality with 4,950,000,000 residents
  • Description: part of terrestrial continent, mainly in the northeastern quadrant
  • Also known as: “Á”, “Á châu”, “Á Tế Á”, “À-chiu”, “Áise”, “Asia continental”, “Asian continent”, “asiatische Kontinent”, “asiatischer Kontinent”, “Asie continentale”, “Asya kıtası”, “Aziatische continent”, “benua Asia”, “Continent asiàtic”, “Continent Asiàtic”, “continent asiatique”, “Continental Asia”, “continente asiático”, “continente de Asia”, “kontynent azjatycki”, “ondskabens kontinent”, “азијски континент”, “Әҫиә”, “ኣስያ”, “ኤሽያ”, “एशियाखण्डः”, “এশিয়া মহাদেশ”, “এশীয় মহাদেশ”, “ஆசிய கண்டம்”, “ஆசியக் கண்டம்”, “ทวีปเอเซีย”, “เอเชีย”, “เอเซีย”, “ᥟᥥᥰ ᥔᥤᥰ ᥕᥬᥰ”, “아세아”, “アズィヤ”, “亚细亚”, “亚细亚洲”, “亜”, “亜州”, “亜細亜”, “亞細亞”, “亞细亞”, “亞西亞洲”, “日出之地”, and “東日洲”
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: continent, part of the world, and region
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Latitude of center
35° north
Longitude of center
99° east
Population
4,950,000,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36966065
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­continent
Wiki­data ID
Q48
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Asia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Азиа”
  • Achinese: “Asia”
  • Adyghe: “Азие”
  • Afrikaans: “Asië”
  • Albanian: “Azia”
  • American Sign Language: “M531x535S1f720469x520S14c20508x465S28907501x503”
  • Amharic: “እስያ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ασία”
  • Angika: “एशिया”
  • Arabic: “آسيا”
  • Aragonese: “Asia”
  • Armenian: “Ասիա”
  • Arpitan: “Asia”
  • Assamese: “এছিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Asia”
  • Atayal: “Aziya”
  • Avaric: “Азия”
  • Aymara: “Asia”
  • Aymara: “Asya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Asiya”
  • Balinese: “Asia”
  • Bambara: “Asia”
  • Banjar: “Asia”
  • Bashkir: “Азия”
  • Basque: “Asia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Asia”
  • Batak Toba: “Asia”
  • Bavarian: “Asien”
  • Belarusian: “Азія”
  • Bengali: “এশিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Asia”
  • Bhojpuri: “एशिया महादीप”
  • Bishnupriya: “এশিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Asia”
  • Bislama: “Esia”
  • Bole: “Asiya”
  • Bosnian: “Azija”
  • Brahui: “Eşíá”
  • Breton: “Azia”
  • Bulgarian: “Азия”
  • Burmese: “အာရှ”
  • Catalan: “Àsia”
  • Cebuano: “Asya”
  • Central Bikol: “Asya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Asia”
  • Central Kanuri: “Asiya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاسیا”
  • Chamorro: “Asia”
  • Chavacano: “Asia”
  • Chechen: “Ази”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᏏᏱ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏓᎶᏂᎦᏍᏛ”
  • Cheyenne: “Asia”
  • Chinese: “亚洲”
  • Chinese: “亞洲”
  • Church Slavic: “Асїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Ази”
  • Cornish: “Asi”
  • Corsican: “Asia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Asiya”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Asiye”
  • Croatian: “Azija”
  • Czech: “Asie”
  • Dagbani: “Asia”
  • Danish: “Asien”
  • Dhivehi: “އޭޝިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Asya”
  • Dinka: “Athiɛ”
  • Dotyali: “एसिया”
  • Dutch: “Azië”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེ་སི་ཡ་”
  • Eastern Mari: “Азий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسيا”
  • Emilian: “Asia”
  • Erzya: “Азия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Azio”
  • Estonian: “Aasia”
  • Extremaduran: “Ásia”
  • Faroese: “Asia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Asia”
  • Fijian: “Esia”
  • Finnish: “Aasia”
  • French: “Asie”
  • Friulian: “Asie”
  • Fulah: “Aasiya”
  • Gagauz: “Aziya”
  • Galician: “Asia”
  • Gan Chinese: “亞洲”
  • Ganda: “Asia”
  • Georgian: “აზია”
  • German: “Asien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Asia”
  • Gilaki: “آسيا”
  • Gilaki: “آسیا”
  • Goan Konkani: “आशिया खंड”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಏಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Gorontalo: “Asia”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ασία”
  • Guarani: “Ásia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lazi”
  • Gujarati: “એશિયા”
  • Haitian: “Azi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-chû”
  • Hausa: “Asiya”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Ākia”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻĀkia”
  • Hebrew: “אסיה”
  • Hindi: “एशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Ázsia”
  • Iban: “Asia”
  • Icelandic: “Asía”
  • Ido: “Azia”
  • Igbo: “Asia”
  • Iloko: “Asia”
  • Inari Sami: “Aasia”
  • Indonesian: “Asia”
  • Ingush: “Ази”
  • Interlingua: “Asia”
  • Interlingue: “Asia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᓰᐊ”
  • Irish: “an Áise”
  • Irish: “An Áise”
  • Italian: “Asia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ieja”
  • Japanese: “Ajia”
  • Japanese: “アジア”
  • Javanese: “Asia”
  • Jèrriais: “Âsie”
  • Jju: “A̱siya”
  • Kabardian: “Азиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Aazii tɛtʋ wandamm”
  • Kabyle: “Asya”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Asia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Asia”
  • Kalmyk: “Азия”
  • Kannada: “ಏಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aziya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Азия”
  • Kashmiri: “ایشیا”
  • Kashubian: “Azjô”
  • Kazakh: “Азия”
  • Khmer: “អាស៊ី”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Aziya”
  • Kirghiz: “Азия”
  • Komering: “Asia”
  • Komering: “Asiya”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Азия”
  • Komi: “Азия”
  • Kongo: “Azia”
  • Korean: “아시아”
  • Kotava: “Asia”
  • Kurdish: “Asya”
  • Ladin: “Asia”
  • Ladino: “Asya”
  • Lak: “Азия”
  • Lao: “ອາຊີ”
  • Latgalian: “Azeja”
  • Latin: “Asia”
  • Latvian: “Āzija”
  • Lezghian: “Азия”
  • Ligurian: “Asia”
  • Limburgan: “Azië”
  • Lingala: “Azía”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Asia”
  • Literary Chinese: “亞細亞洲”
  • Lithuanian: “Azija”
  • Livvi: “Aazii”
  • Lojban: “zdotu’a”
  • Lombard: “Asia”
  • Low German: “Asien”
  • Low German: “Azie”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Azija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Asien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Asia”
  • Macedonian: “Азија”
  • Madurese: “Asia”
  • Magahi: “एसिया”
  • Maithili: “एशिया”
  • Maithili: “एसिया”
  • Malagasy: “Azia”
  • Malay: “Asia”
  • Malay: “اسيا”
  • Malayalam: “ഏഷ്യ”
  • Maltese: “Asja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “Yn Aishey”
  • Maori: “Āhia”
  • Marathi: “आशिया”
  • Mazanderani: “آسیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ā-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “A-chiu”
  • Minangkabau: “Asia”
  • Mingrelian: “აზია”
  • Mirandese: “Ásia”
  • Moksha: “Азия”
  • Moksha: “Азиясь”
  • Mon: “အာရှ”
  • Mongolian: “Ази”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “آسيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أسيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߊߖ߭ߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Eija”
  • Navajo: “(*‘asia’)”
  • Navajo: “(*"asia")”
  • Ndonga: “Asia”
  • Neapolitan: “Asia”
  • Neapolitan: “Asie”
  • Nepali: “एसिया”
  • Newari: “एसिया”
  • Nias: “Asia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aasien”
  • Northern Luri: “آسیا”
  • Northern Sami: “Ásia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Asia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Asia”
  • Norwegian: “Asia”
  • Novial: “Asia”
  • Nyanja: “Asia”
  • Obolo: “Esia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܣܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Asia”
  • Oriya: “ଏସିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Eeshiyaa”
  • Oromo: “Eshiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Ази”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အာသျ”
  • Paiwan: “Asiya”
  • Pampanga: “Asia”
  • Pangasinan: “Asia”
  • Panjabi: “ਏਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Asia”
  • Pedi: “Asia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Asie”
  • Persian: “آسیا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Asie”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Asien”
  • Picard: “Asie”
  • Piemontese: “Asia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Asya”
  • Pite Sami: “Ásia”
  • Polish: “Azja”
  • Pontic: “Ασίαν”
  • Portuguese: “Ásia”
  • Pushto: “آسيا”
  • Quechua: “Asia”
  • Quechua: “Asiya”
  • Romanian: “Asia”
  • Romanian: “Асия”
  • Romansh: “Asia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Аази”
  • Russia Buriat: “Ази”
  • Russian: “Азия”
  • Rusyn: “Азія”
  • Sakizaya: “Ya-cuo”
  • Samoan: “Asia”
  • Samogitian: “Azėjė”
  • Sango: “Asie”
  • Sanskrit: “जम्बुद्वीपः”
  • Sanskrit: “जम्बूद्वीपः”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “ایشیاء”
  • Sardinian: “Àsia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Asien”
  • Scots: “Aisie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Àisia”
  • Serbian: “Азија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Azija”
  • Shan: “ဢေးသျႃး”
  • Shona: “Asia”
  • Shona: “Ezhiya”
  • Sicilian: “Asia”
  • Silesian: “Azyjo”
  • Sindhi: “ايشيا”
  • Sinhala: “ආසියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Aasia”
  • Slovak: “Ázia”
  • Slovenian: “Azija”
  • Somali: “Aasiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آسیا”
  • Southern Sotho: “Asia”
  • Spanish: “Asia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Asi”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵣⵉⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Asia”
  • Sundanese: “ᮃᮞᮤᮃ”
  • Swahili: “Asia”
  • Swedish: “Asien”
  • Swiss German: “Asie”
  • Swiss German: “Asien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠄꠡꠤꠀ”
  • Tachelhit: “Asya”
  • Tagalog: “Asya”
  • Tahitian: “’Ātia”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥟᥥᥰ ᥡᥫᥝᥰ”
  • Tajik: “Осиё”
  • Talysh: “Asijə”
  • Tamil: “ஆசியா”
  • Tatar: “Asia”
  • Tatar: “Азия”
  • Telugu: “ఆసియా”
  • Tetum: “Ázia”
  • Thai: “ทวีปเอเชีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་ཤེ་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤስያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Esia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻĒsia”
  • Tsonga: “Asia”
  • Tsonga: “Axiya”
  • Tulu: “ಏಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Tumbuka: “Asia”
  • Turkish: “Asya”
  • Turkmen: “Aziýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Азия”
  • Twi: “Ehyia”
  • Tyap: “A̱siya”
  • Udmurt: “Азия”
  • Uighur: “ئاسىيا”
  • Ukrainian: “Азія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Azija”
  • Urdu: “ایشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Osiyo”
  • Venetian: “Àzia”
  • Veps: “Azii”
  • Vietnamese: “châu Á”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu Á”
  • Vlaams: “Azië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Asia”
  • Volapük: “Siyop”
  • Võro: “Aasia”
  • Walloon: “Azeye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Asya”
  • Welsh: “Asia”
  • Western Armenian: “Ասիա”
  • Western Frisian: “Aazje”
  • Western Mari: “Ази”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایشیا”
  • Wolof: “Asi”
  • Wu Chinese: “亚洲”
  • Xhosa: “I-Eshiya”
  • Yakut: “Азия”
  • Yiddish: “אזיע”
  • Yoruba: “Ásíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “亞洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Azië”
  • Zhuang: “Yacouh”
  • Zulu: “I-Eshiya”
  • “Asiah”
  • “Azija”
  • “ma Asija”
  • “Азија”
  • “एशिया”

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