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The divisions between Asia and Europe occur at the Ural Mountains, Ural River, and Caspian Sea in the east, the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, Bosporus Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea in the south. Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey all have territory in both Asia and Europe.
Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high, high, medium, and low human development. Currently, no Oceanian country falls into the low human development category while Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen are the only Asian countries which fall into this category. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist ...
For a table of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia with geographical data such as area, population, and population density, see Asia: territories and regions. Geologically, Asia is part of Eurasia and due to the Isthmus of Suez forms part of Afro-Eurasia.
Below is a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent.. This list includes the 195 states which are currently member states of the United Nations or non-member observer states with the United Nations General Assembly.
Chinese Soviet Republic (1931–1937) People's Republic of China (1949–present, state with limited recognition until 1971) (In 1997 the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to the Chinese sovereignty, in 1999 Portugal also returned Macau to the Chinese sovereignty) Xinjiang. Uyghur Khaganate (744–840) Jushi Kingdom.
Document file format. Standard. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2; ISO 3166-1 alpha-3; ISO 3166-1 numeric. The list of sovereign states and dependent territories by continent data file is a plain text format describing the list of countries by continent, [1] suitable for automated processing.
Lists of sovereign states and dependent territories. This is a list of lists of countries and territories by various criteria. A country or territory is a geographical area, either in the sense of nation (a cultural entity) or state (a political entity). [1]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Asia. Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 4.655 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's ...