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  2. Sinosphere - Wikipedia

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    The cuisine of East Asia shares many of the same ingredients and techniques. Chopsticks are used as an eating utensil in all of the core East Asian countries. [40] The use of soy sauce, which is made from fermenting soybeans, is also widespread in the region. [41] Rice is the staple food in all of East Asia and is a major focus of food security ...

  3. Culture of Asia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Southeast Indian Ridge - Wikipedia

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    The Southeast Indian Ridge (denoted by the yellow line) The Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean.A divergent tectonic plate boundary stretching almost 6,000 km (3,700 mi) between the Rodrigues triple junction) in the Indian Ocean and the Macquarie triple junction) in the Pacific Ocean, the SEIR forms the plate boundary between the Australian and ...

  5. List of festivals in Asia - Wikipedia

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    The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Asia, with links to separate lists by country and region where applicable. This list includes festivals of diverse types, including regional festivals, commerce festivals, film festivals , folk festivals , carnivals , recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals . [ 1 ]

  6. Seir - Wikipedia

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    Mount Seir, a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba; Seir the Horite, chief of the Horites, a people mentioned in the Torah; Sa'ir, also Seir, a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank; Seir, a demon in the Ars Goetia; Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern ...

  7. Buddha's birthday: When is it and how is it celebrated in ...

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    The birthday of the historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, known as Vesak in several countries, celebrates the birth of the child who became Prince Siddhartha around the end of the 4th century B.C.

  8. Greater India - Wikipedia

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    Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, or the Indic world, is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture, which itself formed from the various distinct indigenous cultures of South Asia. [4]

  9. Culture of South Asia - Wikipedia

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    This has caused the region to be the most linguistically diverse region in the planet, [81] and as well as having four language families (Dravidian, Indo-European, Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman), hundreds of languages and thousands of dialects. [82] Many modern pieces of South Asian literature are written in English for a global audience.