Portal:Asia/Geography/Intro

Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin.

Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries.

Central Asia

• Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan.

East Asia

• China, Hong Kong, Macau, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia.

North Asia

• Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific region of Russia – an area east of the Ural Mountains.

Southeast Asia

• Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.

Western Asia

• Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. Alternatively called Southwestern Asia. The Middle East, a widely used designation, constitutes roughly the same area, minus Egypt.

South Asia

• Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh. A common approximate synonym for South Asia is the Indian subcontinent, plus Afghanistan.