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Description: Map of Asia for use on Wikivoyage. Multilingual: in separate layers data for language codes: en, eo, fr, id, nl. Legend: Purple = Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan) Blue = Central Asia; Yellow = East Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan) Brown = West Asia/Middle East
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
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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 current human population .
Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Asia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Asia . Subcategories
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In medieval T and O maps, Asia makes for half the world's landmass, with Africa and Europe accounting for a quarter each. With the High Middle Ages, Southwest and Central Asia receive better resolution in Muslim geography, and the 11th century map by Mahmud al-Kashgari is the first world map drawn from a Central Asian point of view.