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The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ar.wikipedia.org قالب:Asia.png; Usage on az.wikipedia.org Şablon:Asiya xəritəsi; Asiya ölkələrinin siyahısı
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Asia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Asia . Subcategories
Español: mapa político de México a color (nombres de estados y capitales) Basado en el mapa de Alexis Rojas Euskara: Mexikoko mapa politikoa kolorez (estatuen eta hiruburen izenekin) Alexis Rojas-en lanean oinarriturik.
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.
South Asia has a total area of 5.2 million sq.km (2 million sq.mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent. [30] The population of South Asia is estimated to be 2.04 billion [8] or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. [31]
The making of the map was a major undertaking and the map took several years to complete. The map was not created by Fra Mauro alone, but by a team of cartographers, artists, and copyists led by him and using some of the most expensive techniques available at the time. The price of the map would have been about an average copyist's annual ...