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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.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa. It includes fully recognised states, states with limited or zero recognition, and dependent territories of both African and non-African states.
This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
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.
Within a few years, the name "New World" began appearing as a name for South America on world maps, such as the Oliveriana (Pesaro) map of around 1504–1505. Maps of this time, though, still showed North America connected to Asia and showed South America as a separate land.
A Swadesh list (/ ˈ s w ɑː d ɛ ʃ /) is a compilation of tentatively universal concepts for the purposes of lexicostatistics.That is, a Swadesh list is a list of forms and concepts which all languages, without exception, have terms for, such as star, hand, water, kill, sleep, and so forth.
Titular Name Birth Name Birth Reign Death 1 - Babur بابر: Zahir ud-Din Muhammad ظهیر الدین محمد: 14 February 1483 Andijan, Uzbekistan: 20 April 1526 – 26 December 1530 (4 years, 8 months and 6 days) 26 December 1530 (aged 47) Agra, India: 2 - Humayun همایوں: Nasir ud-Din Muhammad نصیر الدین محمد: 6 March 1508
Name (Birth–Death) Election Term of office Political party (Coalition) Ministry Took office Left office Time in office Provisional Government of Bangladesh (1971–1972) 1 Tajuddin Ahmad তাজউদ্দীন আহমদ (1925–1975) — 17 April 1971 12 January 1972 270 days AL: Mujib I: People's Republic of Bangladesh (1972–present) 2