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In the north, the border between Asia and Europe is a meridian through the mouth of the Don River northward "to the unknown region." [13] Asia Minor remains "Asia properly so called." [14] Ptolemy's Asia extends to the Far East, approximately identical to today's Asia, except that the European border runs through the future location of Moscow ...
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Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png – Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia. Image:BlankMap-Europe-v4.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png, but with borders shown; Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png – White background, black borders, blue sea.
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.
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Apart from Maritime Southeast Asia (the Malay Archipelago), the maritime region of the subcontinent (Littoral South Asia) is the only subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere: the British Indian Ocean Territory [citation needed] two of the 26 atolls of the Maldives lie entirely within the Southern Hemisphere.
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Location map for west Asia with political borders: Date: 28 October 2010, 13:09 (UTC) ... This is a retouched picture, ... Description=Location map for west Asia ...