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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