ASIA-INGLES

Asia

Asia

Surface 44.579 million km ²

Population 4.14 billion inhabitants.

Density 92 inhab. / km ²

Gentile Asian

Subdivisions North Asia

South Asia

East Asia

Central Asia

Siberia

Southeast Asia

West Asia

Countries 48 countries[mostrar]

Dependencies 3[mostrar]

Countries not recognized 6[mostrar]

Regional Languages

Languages of Asia

Language

Zone UTC +2

UTC +12

Internet TLD . Asia

Most populated cities Tokyo

Seoul

Bombay

New Delhi

Shanghai

Manila

Osaka

Calcutta

Karachi

Jakarta

Beijing

Canton

Dhaka

Hong Kong

Tehran

Bangalore

Shenzhen

Bangkok

Nanjing

Tianjin

Ho Chi Minh City

Asia or Asia is the continent largest and most populous of the Earth , with about 44 million square kilometers, accounting for 8.70% of the total land area and 29.45% of the land area and 4,200 000,000 inhabitants, 60% of the world population. It extends over the eastern half of the northern hemisphere , from the Arctic Ocean to the north, to the Indian Ocean to the south. Bordered to the west, the Ural Mountains , and on the east by the Pacific Ocean .

In the conventional division of continents, from Europe, Asia, and Europe appear as two different entities for cultural and historical reasons. In geographical terms, actually form a single continent called Eurasia . Furthermore, Africa is joined to Eurasia by theSuez Canal so you can also consider joint full extent of Europe, Asia and Africa as a single supercontinent, occasionally calledEurafrasia , or Afro-Eurasia.

Index

1 Definition and boundaries

1.1 Physical Geography

1.2 Relief

1.3 Political Geography

2 Countries and territories

3 History

4 Demographics

4.1 Characteristics of the population

4.2 Population by sex

5 Language

6 Economy

6.1 The 1997 Asian financial crisis

7 Religion

8 Film

9 Sports

10 See also

11 Notes and references

12 External Links

Definition and boundaries

Physical Geography

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The European concept of three continents in the Old World goes back to classical antiquity, but in the Middle Ages was especially defended because studies VII century scholar Isidore of Seville (see Map of T in O ). The demarcation between Asia and Africa (in the southwest) is the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea . The boundary between Asia and Europe is conventionally considered to run between the Dardanelles , the Sea of Marmara , the Bosphorus , the Black Sea , the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea , the Ural River and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea (Russian ).

In Far East Asia, Siberia is separated from North America by the Bering Strait . Asia is bordered to the south by the Indian Ocean (specifically, from west to east, the Gulf of Aden , the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal ), to the east by the waters of the Pacific Ocean (including, counterclockwise against , the China Sea , the East China Sea , theYellow Sea , the Sea of Japan , the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea ) and north by the Arctic Ocean . Australia (or Oceania ) remains in the southeast.

Some geographers do not consider Asia and Europe to be separate continents, since there is no logical physical separation between them. For example, Barry Cunliffe, the emeritus professor of European archeology at Oxford, argues that Europe has been geographically and culturally "Western outgrowth of Asia". Geographically, Asia is the major eastern part of the continent called Eurasia with Europe constituting a peninsula northwest of the mainland called Eurafrasia : geologically, Asia, Europe and Africa make up a single territory and continuous (except artificial Suez Canal ) and share a shelf together. Most of Europe and Asia are based on tectonic plate Eurasian, bordering the Arabian plate and the Indian plate to the south, the northeastern part of Siberia (east of the Montes Cherski ) is part of the North American plate .

In geography, there are two main schools of thought. A school due to historical convention and treats Europe and Asia as different continents, categorizing subregions within them for more detailed analysis. The other school compares the word "continent" with a geographical region when referring to Europe, and uses the term "region" to describe Asia in terms of physiography. Since, in linguistic terms, "continent" implies a different mass, it is increasingly common to substitute the term "region" by "continent" to avoid the problem of disambiguation.

Given the scope and diversity of the land mass, sometimes not even clear what "Asia" exactly. Some definitions exclude Turkey , the Middle East , Central Asia and Russia , and only consider that make Asia the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, especially in the United States after World War II . The term is sometimes closer reduces to refer to the region Asia-Pacific , which includes the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Russia, but includes the islands of the Pacific Ocean and can include parts of Australasia orOceania , although Pacific peoples are not considered Asians.

Relief

Physical map of Asia, excludingSoutheast Asia .

Projection by two points equidistant Asia.

In Asia include the following formations:

In the north the plain Asian.

In the central area a series of high plateaus such as Iran , Pamir , Tibet and Mongolia . The Pamir and Tibet are located 3.600 m 5.000 m respectively by what are known as the roof of the world. There are also a number of young mountain ranges: the Zagros Mountains , theKarakoram and the Himalayas , where the highest point on Earth, the Everest (8,848 m).

In eastern China Plain.

In southern Plateau of Deccan Plain and Indochina .

Relief is completed with a series of alluvial plains where large rivers pass.

Political Geography

Historical circumstances have shaped human and real division between West Asia from Indiato the west and East Asia known as the Far East , from India to the east.

Countries and territories

They are classified according to the scheme of subregions of the UN, these data include your references and when indicated their qualifications differ.

Geographically, much of Russia belongs to Northern Asia (the rest are in Europe). Most of Turkey is in Asia (the rest in Europe). A small part of Egypt , the Sinai Peninsula , belongs to Western Asia (mostly in Africa).

Subregion Asia geographical:

Sub-regions of Asia as the subdivision of the UN :

Name of the region and

territory, with flag

Area

(Km ²) Population

(July 1, 2008 Est.) Population Density

(Per km ²) Capital

Central Asia :

Kazakhstan

2724927 15,666,533 5.7 Astana

Kyrgyzstan

198,500 5356869 24.3 Bishkek

Tajikistan

143,100 7211884 47.0 Dushanbe

Turkmenistan

488,100 5179573 9.6 Ashgabat

Uzbekistan

447,400 28,268,441 57.1 Tashkent

East Asia :

China

9640821 1,322,044.605 134.0 Beijing

North Korea

120,540 23,479,095 184.4 Pyongyang

South Korea

98,480 49,232,844 490.7 Seoul

Hong Kong

1,092 7,008,300 6417.9 -

Japan

377,835 127,288.628 336.1 Tokyo

Macau

25 460 823 18473.3 -

Mongolia

1,565,000 2996082 1.7 Ulan Bator

Republic of China

35,980 22,920,946 626.7 Taipei

North Asia :

Russia

17,075,400 142 200 000 26.8 Moscow

Southeast Asia :

Brunei

5,770 381 371 66.1 Bandar Seri Begawan

Burma

676 578 47,758,224 70.3 Naypyidaw

Cambodia

181,035 13,388,910 74 Nom Pen

Philippines

300,000 92,681,453 308.9 Manila

Indonesia

1,919,440 230 512 000 120.1 Jakarta

Laos

236,800 6677534 28.2 Vientiane

Malaysia

329,847 27.78 million 84.2 Kuala Lumpur

Singapore

704 4608167 6545.7 Singapore

Thailand

514,000 65,493,298 127.4 Bangkok

East Timor

15,007 1108777 73.8 Dili

Vietnam

331,690 86,116,559 259.6 Hanoi

South Asia :

Afghanistan

647,500 32,738,775 42.9 Kabul

Bangladesh

147,570 153 546 901 1040.5 Dhaka

Bhutan

38,394 682 321 17.8 Thimphu

India

3,287,263 1147995226 349.2 New Delhi

Maldives

300 379 174 1263.3 Male

Nepal

147,181 29,519,114 200.5 Kathmandu

Pakistan

803,940 167 762 049 208.7 Islamabad

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