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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 ...
Asia and the Pacific Indonesia: 6 4 10 Asia and the Pacific Iran: 26 2 28 1 Asia and the Pacific Iraq: 5 1 6 Arab States Ireland: 2 2 Europe and North America Israel: 9 9 Europe and North America Italy: 54 [note 32] [note 33] [note 7] 6 [note 1] [note 34] 60 7 Europe and North America Jamaica: 1 1 Latin America & the Caribbean Japan: 21 [note 4 ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Culture of Asia by country (59 C) E. Culture of Europe by country (75 C) L. Culture of Latin America by country (22 C) N. ... Category: Culture by continent and country.
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.
Culture of Asia (57 C, 27 P) Culture of Europe (47 C, 58 P) Culture of North America (28 C, 5 P) ... White culture by continent or region (6 C) This page was ...
Transcontinental country in Asia and Oceania, classified as a Southeastern Asian country by the United Nations Statistics Division: Indonesia (Maluku Islands and Western New Guinea). Entirely in Southeast Asia, but commonly associated with Oceania, and lying east of the biogeographical Wallace Line: East Timor.
Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...