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This is a list of articles giving brief summaries of each country in Asia. The transcontinental countries situated in both Asia and Europe are also shown. Outline of Abkhazia [1]
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 ...
Therefore, Egypt, an African country, may also be considered to be a country in Asia. The division between Southeast Asia and Australia/Oceania is disputed and currently placed somewhere between Java and New Guinea. Indonesia spans both areas, but is ordinarily considered to be an Asian country. [1]
Blue = Central Asia; Yellow = East Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan) Brown = West Asia/Middle East; Green = South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan) Red = South East Asia (10 ASEAN countries + East Timor) Date: 5 May 2007 (original upload date) Source: Own work based on the blank world map: Author
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Asia.. Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres.
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered.
This list gives the number of distinct land borders of each country or territory, as well as the neighboring countries and territories. The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1] Countries or territories that are connected only by man-made structures such as bridges, causeways or ...
Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries.