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Dzyarzhynsk or Dzerzhinsk (Belarusian: Дзяржынск, romanized: Dziarzhynsk; [a] Russian: Дзержинск), formerly known as Koydanava until 1932, [b] [2] is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Dzyarzhynsk District. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 29,796. [1]
Dzyarzhynsk District or Dziaržynsk District [2] (Belarusian: Дзяржынскі раён; Russian: Дзержинский район) is a district of Minsk Region in Belarus. [1] The administrative center of the district is Dzyarzhynsk. [3] [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 70,391. [1] The highest point of Belarus is situated in the ...
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
On the north the boundary between the continents of Asia and Europe is commonly regarded as running through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and a long border generally following the eastern side of the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea, Russia.
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.
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.
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.
Antarctica Map of island countries: these states are not located on any continent-sized landmass, but they are usually grouped geographically with a neighbouring continent. Determining the boundaries between the continents is generally a matter of geographical convention. Several slightly different conventions are in use.