Asia Map

Asia is the continent's largest and most populous of the world, particularly in the east of the east and the northern hemisphere. It covers 8.7% of the total area (30% of the country) and about 3.879 billion people, it houses 60% of the world's human population today. In the 20th Century the Asian population has almost quadrupled.

Introduced to Asia for similar definitions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the National Geographic Society as a 4 / 5 of the landmass of Eurasia defined - with the western part of the latter occupied by Europe - located in east of the Suez Canal, east of the Urals and south of the Caucasus (or depression of Kuma-Manych) and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, south by the Indian Ocean and north by the Arctic Ocean. It contains a Mediterranean - Cyprus. Is it a place name in the ancient world - - Due to its size and diversity of Asia "is a cultural concept of" integration of different regions and peoples as a homogenous physical entity in Asia differs considerably between and within regions in terms of ethnicities, cultures, environments, economic, historical and government systems.

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