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Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. ... Turkey: 1.7%: 759,805 (293,362) ... List of Asian countries by area.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over 'Eurasia' would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in 'Eurasia', and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well ...
East Thrace, the European portion of Turkey comprises 3% [2] of the landmass but over 15% [2] of the population. East Thrace is separated from Asia Minor, the Asian portion of Turkey, by the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles. [3] İskilip, Çorum province, is considered to be the geographical center of Earth. [4]
Asia (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈ eɪ ʃ ə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
East Thrace has an area of 23,757 km 2 (9,172 sq mi), 3.1% of Turkey's internal area; the population density is around 515/km 2, compared to about 98/km 2 for Asiatic Turkey. The two continents are separated by the Dardanelles , the Bosphorus (collectively known as the Turkish straits ) and the Sea of Marmara , a route of about 361 km (224 mi).
The world known to its population before contact with the "New World" (the Americas). Afro-Eurasia: 84,211,532: Largest contiguous landmass. Holarctic: 77,000,000: Biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world. Atlantic Ocean excluding adjacent seas: 76,762,000: Second ...