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File:Blank Asia.png: Map of Asia without national borders Asia98.svg : national primary level divisions as of 1998 Location Map Asia.svg : Gray location map of Asia based off national borders as of 2009
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 ...
The situation for Turkey is inverse, as that of an Asian country with imperial conquests in Europe. [96] Kazakhstan is also a transcontinental state by this definition, with its West Kazakhstan and Atyrau provinces extending on either side of the Ural River, [97] although it is considered a central Asian country that extends
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.
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold : internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)
Reverted to version as of 20:10, 19 August 2020 (UTC) Thats why it’s still in the map and not completely removed: 20:10, 21 August 2020: 553 × 553 (284 KB) PersianV: Reverted to version as of 18:07, 11 May 2017 (UTC) Reverted, technically considered South Asian: 20:10, 19 August 2020: 744 × 1,052 (540 KB) Xerxes1985: Afghanistan in a ...
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.