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THE BASIC FACTS
YOU SHOULD KNOW
ASIA
as a word is of Greek origin,
and its meaning is "sunrise". It
was also said to have been
derived from Assyrian"asu"
meaning "east".
POpulation
• Asia has a population of over 4
billion people or better than 60% of
the world’s population. This many
people standing side by side holding
hands would reach around
the world at the equator more than
100 times.
• 2010 Population 3,879,000,000
based on 2010 Worldatlas.
• More than half of Asia’s population is in two
countries in Asia – China (1.3 billion) and India
(1.1 billion). India is guess-estimated to take
over China in about 20 years or so.
Land Area
• Asia is the largest of the seven
continents with a total land area of
44, 936,000 sq km, which is 1/3 of
the world’s total land area and much
larger than the land area of the
moon having only 38,000, 000 sq
km of total land area.
•  Asia is 5,300 miles wide
ASIAN BOUNDARIES
•  Asia’s boundaries extend from the Suez Canal and Ural
Mountains in the west, to the south of the Caucasus
Mountains and Caspian and Black Seas. Also to the South
is the Indian Ocean, to the North the Arctic Ocean and to
the Far East the Pacific Ocean.
• Asia's border with Europe—which, geographically, may be
regarded as a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass—lies
approximately along the Urals, the Ural River, the Caspian
Sea, the Caucasus, the Black Sea, the Bosporus and
Dardanelles straits, and the Aegean Sea. The connection
of Asia with Africa is broken only by the Suez Canal
between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. In the
far northeast of Asia, Siberia is separated from North
America by the Bering Strait. The continent of Asia is
washed on the S by the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and
the Bay of Bengal; on the E by the South China Sea, East
China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and
Bering Sea; and on the N by the Arctic Ocean.
ASIAN BOUNDARY
Geographical regions
 Six subcontinents
NORTH ASIA

CENTRAL ASIA

EAST ASIA

SOUTHWEST ASIA

SOUTH ASIA

SOUTHEAST ASIA
Geographical regions
• Central Asia – Kazakhstan Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
• East Asia – China, Japan, Mongolia, Taiwan,
North and South Korea.
• North Asia – Russia.
• South Asia – India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
• Southeast Asia – Brunei, Cambodia, East
Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar
[Burma], Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam.
• Southwest Asia – The Middle East including
Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, Israel, and Lebanon.
•  Asia’s western most point is Cape
Baba in Northwestern Turkey.
• Asia’s eastern most point is Cape
Chelyuskin in Siberia.
•  Asia is home to the highest (Mount
Everest 8,848m) and lowest Dead
Sea (-395m) points on Earth.

Mount Everest

Dead Sea
 Ten Longest Rivers in Asia
ASIAN RIVER LENGTH
1. Yangtze (Chang Jiang) 6,300 km – 3,915 miles
2. Yellow River (Huang He) 5,464 km – 3,395 miles
3. Lena River 4,400 km – 2,734 miles
4. Mekong River 4,350 km – 2,703 miles
5. Irtysh River 4,248 km – 2,640 miles
6. Yenisei River 4,090 km – 2,540 miles
7. Ob River 3,650 km – 2,268 miles
8. Nizhnyaya Tunguska River 2,989 km – 1,857 miles
9. Indus River 2,900 km – 1,800 miles
10. Brahmaputra River 2,900 km – 1,800 miles

• If linked end to end would reach around the world at

the equator.
•The Longest river in Asia
Yangtze (Chang Jiang) – 6,300 km – 3,915 miles
 Ten Tallest Mountains in Asia
ASIAN MOUNTAIN HEIGHT COUNTRY
1. Everest  8,848 m Nepal, Tibet
2. K2 8,611 m Pakistan-China
3. Kangchenjunga 8,586 m Nepal-Sikkim, India
4. Lhotse 8,516 m Nepal-Tibet, China
5. Makalu 8,462 m Nepal-Tibet, China
6. Cho Oyu 8,201 m Nepal-Tibet, China
7. Dhaulagiri 8,167 m Nepal
8. Manaslu 8,156 m Nepal
9. Nanga Parbat 8,125 m Pakistan
10. Annapurna 8,091 m Nepal

•if stacked one on top of the other would reach

into space. By contrast Mount Fuji at 3.776 is less than
half as tall as the shortest in this list.
•The Tallest Mountain in Asia
Everest (8,848 m), Nepal-Tibet
ECONOMIC PEAKS
• Asia’s three dominant financial
centers are Tokyo, Hong Kong
and Singapore.

Tokyo Financial Center

• Three of the top four economies in the
world are in Asia – China, Japan and
India. They are numbers 2, 3 and 4
respectively. However, tiny Japan has
less than 1/10th of the population of
China or India. Yet Asia’s economy as a
continent trails North America and
Europe.
United States of America
Approximate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity
$13,860,000,000,000
China
Approximateate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity
$7,043,000,000,000
Japan
Approximateate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity
$7,043,000,000,000
India
Approximateate GDP- Purchasing Power Parity
$2,965,000,000,000
religion
• Asia’s dominant
religions are
Hinduism, Buddhism,
Confucian/Taoism
and Islam.
•Asia was the
birthplace of most of
the world's
mainstream religion
s including Buddhis
m, Christianity, Conf
ucianism, Hinduism,
 Islam, Jainism, Sik
hism, Taoism,Zoroa
stranism as well as
many other beliefs.
religion
MARKS TO HISTORY
• Asia is home to the birth of the human
species and civilization. Somewhere
near where the Tigris and Euphrates
Rivers meet.
• Asia was the home of some of the
world's oldest civilizations. The
empires of Sumer, Babylonia,
Assyria, Media, and Persia and the
civilizations of Islam flourished in SW
Asia, while in the east the ancient
civilizations of India, China
and Japan prospered. Later, nomadic
tribes (Huns, Mongols, and Turks) in N
and central Asia established great
empires and gave rise to great
westward migration. Their tribal,
military-state organizations reached
their highest form in the 13th–14th
cent. under the Mongols, whose court
was visited by early European
travelers, notably the Italian
Marco Polo.
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