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Minyip is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia, 320 kilometres (199 mi) north west of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Yarriambiack local government area. At the 2016 census, Minyip had a population of 524. [1] The name "Minyip" is derived from an Aboriginal word for "ashes" or "camping place". [2] [3]
Multiple sources give different estimates of the area enclosed by the imaginary border of Asia. The New York Times Atlas of the World gives 43,608,000 km 2 (16,837,000 sq mi). [1] Chambers World Gazetteer rounds off to 44,000,000 km 2 (17,000,000 sq mi), [2] while the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia gives 44,390,000 km 2 (17,140,000 sq mi). [3]
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The public domain map data set Natural Earth has metadata in the fields named "region_un" and "subregion" for Taiwan. The regional split recommended by Lloyd's of London for Eastern Asia (UN statistical divisions of Eastern Asia) contains Taiwan. [3] Based on the United Nations statistical divisions, the APRICOT (conference) includes Taiwan in ...
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations [1] and the latest official figure. Map [ edit ]
Blue = Central Asia; Yellow = East Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan) Brown = West Asia/Middle East; Green = South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan) Red = South East Asia (10 ASEAN countries + East Timor) Date: 5 May 2007 (original upload date) Source: Own work based on the blank world map: Author