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Asia
Asia
Area 44,579,000 km2 (17,212,000
sq mi)[1 ]
Populat ion 3,879,000,000 (1st)[2 ]
Pop. densi ty 87/km2 (225/sq mi)
Demonym Asian
Countr ies 48 (list of countries)
Dependencies
Unrecognized
regions
Languages List of languages
Time Zones UTC+2 to UTC+12
In ternet TLD .asia
Larges t c i t ies List of metropolitan areas in Asia population
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For other uses, seeAsia (disambiguation).
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 3.9 billion people,
it hosts 60% of the world's current human
population. During the 20th century Asia's
population nearly quadrupled.[3 ]
Asia is defined according to similar definitions
presented by the Encyclopdia Britannica[4 ] andthe National Geographic Society[5 ] as 4/5 of the
landmass of Eurasia with the western portion
of the latter occupied by Europe located to the
east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural
Mountains and south of the Caucasus Mountains
(or the Kuma-Manych Depression) and the
Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the
east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the
Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic
Ocean. It contains one country in the
Mediterranean Sea - Cyprus. Given its size anddiversity, Asia a toponym dating back to
classical antiquity "is more a cultural concept"
incorporating diverse regions and peoples than a
homogeneous physical entity [6 ] Asia differs very
widely among and within its regions with regard
to ethnic groups, cultures, environments,
economics, historical ties and government
systems.
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1 Definition and boundaries
1.1 Greek three-continent system
1.2 Asia-Europe boundary
1.3 Asia-Oceania boundary
1.4 Ongoing definition
2 Etymology
2.1 Classical antiquity
2.2 Bronze Age
3 History
4 Geography
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5 Economy
6 Demographics
6.1 Languages
6.2 Religions
6.2.1 Abrahamic
6.2.2 Dharmic and Taoist
7 Culture
7.1 Nobel prizes
8 See also9 References
10 Bibliography
11 Further reading
12 External links
For more details on Asian borders, seeGeography of Asia, Boundaries between continents, Lis
transcontinental countriesandCopenhagen criteria.
The original distinction between Europe and
Asia was made by the ancient Greeks. They
used the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles, the
Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black
Sea, the Kerch Strait, and the Sea of Azov as
the border between Asia and Europe. The Nile
was often used as the border between Asia
and Africa (then called Libya), although some
Greek geographers suggested the Red Sea
would form a better boundary.[7 ]Darius' canal
between the Nile and the Red Sea introducedconsiderable variation in opinion. Under the
Roman Empire, the Don River emptying into
the Black Sea was the western border of Asia.
It was the northernmost navigable point of the
European shore. [citation needed] In the 15th
century the Red Sea became established as the boundary between Africa and Asia, replacing the
Nile. As exploration developed, the border between Asia and Europe had to be redefined, as the
borders of the time did not extend to the arctic.[7 ]
The Don River became unsatisfactory to northern Europeans when Peter the Great, king of the
Tsardom of Russia, defeating rival claims of Sweden and the Ottoman Empire to the eastern lands,
and armed resistance by the tribes of Siberia, synthesized a new Russian Empire extending to the
Ural Mountains and beyond, founded in 1721. The major geographical theorist of the empire was
actually a former Swedish prisoner-of-war, taken at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 and assigned to
Tobolsk, where he associated with Peter's Siberian official, Vasily Tatishchev, and was allowed
freedom to conduct geographical and anthropological studies in preparation for a future
book.[citation needed]
At home in Sweden again, five years after Peter's death, in 1730 von Strahlenberg published a new
Definition and boundaries
Greek t h ree-cont inent sys tem
Two-point equidistant projection of Asia and surroundinglandmasses.
Asia-Europe boundary
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Bikol Central
Bislama
Boarisch
Bosanski
Brezhoneg
Catal
Cebuano
esky
Chavacano deZamboanga
Chi-Chewa
chiShona
Corsu
Cymraeg
Dansk
Deitsch
Deutsch
Din bizaad
Dolnoserbski
Eesti
Espaol
Esperanto
Estremeu
Euskara
Fiji Hindi
Froyskt
Franais
Frysk
Fulfulde
Furlan
Gaeilge
Gaelg
Gagauz
Gidhlig
Galego
Hak-k-fa
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atlas proposing the Urals as the border of Asia. The Russians were enthusiastic about the concept,
which allowed them to keep their European identity in geography as well as other cultural heritage.
Tatishchev announced that he had proposed the idea to von Strahlenberg. The latter had suggested
the Emba River as the lower boundary. Over the next century various proposals were made until th
Ural River prevailed in the mid-19th-century. The border had been moved perforce from the Black
Sea to the Caspian Sea into which the Ural River projects. [8 ] In the maps of the period,
Transcaucasia was counted as Asian. The incorporation of most of that region into the Soviet Unio
tended to push views of the border to the south.
The border between Asia and Oceania is placed somewhere in the Malay archipelago. The terms
Southeast Asia and Oceania, devised in the 19th century, have had vastly different geographic
meanings since their inception. Oceania has never been Asia, whatever it may have been defined to
be. The chief factor in determining what islands of the Malay Archipelago are Asian has been the
location of the colonial possessions of the various empires there (not all European). Lewis and Wig
assert, "The narrowing of 'Southeast Asia' to its present boundaries was thus a gradual process." [7
Geographical Asia is a cultural artifact, an imprecise
concept causing endemic contention about what it meanscontrast to Europe, Asia is the largest and most culturally
diverse of the continents in the seven-continent system.[9
does not exactly correspond to the cultural borders of its
various types of constituents.[10]
In addition to its general inherited geographical meaning,
which the entire literate world subscribes, Asia has any
number of agency-specific meanings organizationally and
operationally of use in more restricted fields of interest. F
example, the World University Service of Canada is a
volunteer organization dedicated to bringing educational,health and other services to nations that need them the
most. The regional divisions most convenient to its
operations include, among others, the Middle East and Europe, and South and Southeast Asia, term
just "Asia." [11] Its administrative Asia is substantially different from the overall geographic and the
same may be said of many hundreds more agencies across the globe that operate in Asia from
headquarters elsewhere. Some of the most innovative and perhaps the most transitory uses of "Asia
have been promulgated by the news media reporting on current events. Their classifications must b
the most suitable for the news and the sources of it. For example, the BBC News has an Asia-Pac
section, which acquires news from anywhere in Australasia, Oceania or the Pacific side of the
Americas.[12]
From the time of Herodotus a minority of geographers have rejected the three-continent system(Europe, Africa, Asia) on the grounds that there is no or is no substantial physical separation betwe
them.[6 ] For example, Sir Barry Cunliffe, the emeritus professor of European archeology at Oxford,
argues that Europe has been geographically and culturally merely "the western excrescence of the
continent of Asia."[13] Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eura
with Europe being a northwestern peninsulaof the landmass or of Afro-Eurasia; geologically, Asi
Europe and Africa make up a single continuous landmass (except for the Suez Canal) and share a
common continental shelf. Almost all of Europe and most of Asia sit atop the Eurasian Plate, adjoin
on the south by the Arabianand Indian Plate and with the easternmost part of Siberia (east of the
Cherskiy Range) on the North American Plate.
Asia-Ocea nia boundary
Ongoing def in i t ion
Afro-Eurasia shown in red
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Asia was originally a concept of Western
civilization.[14] The place name, "Asia", in
various forms in a large number of modern
languages is of unknown ultimate provenience.
Its etymology and language of origin are
uncertain. It appears to be one of the most
ancient of recorded names. A number oftheories have been published. English Asia
can be traced through the formation of English
literature to Latin literature, where it has the
same form, Asia. Whether all uses and all
forms of the name derive also from the Latin
of the Roman Empire is much less certain.
Latin Asia and Greek appear to be the same word. Roman authors translated as Asia. T
Romans named a province Asia, which was in the location of the then Asia. There was an Asia Min
and an Asia Major (Iraq), of which the name of Minor survived. As the earliest evidence of the namis Greek, it is likely circumstantially that Asia came from , but ancient transitions, due to the lac
of literary contexts, are difficult to catch in the act. The most likely vehicles were the ancient
geographers and historians, such as Herodotus, who were all Greek. Roman civilization Hellenized
extensively. Ancient Greekcertainly evidences early and rich uses of the name. [15]
The first continental use of Asia is attributed to Herodotus(about 440 BC), not because he innovate
it, but because his Historiesare the earliest surviving prose to describe it in any detail. He defines
carefully,[16] mentioning the previous geographers whom he had read, but whose works are now
missing. By it he means Anatolia and the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodo
comments that he is puzzled as to why three women's names were "given to a tract which is in rea
one" (Europa, Asia, and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia wasnamed after the wife of Prometheus (i.e. Hesione), but that the Lydianssay it was named after Asi
son of Cotys, who passed the name on to a tribe at Sardis.[17] In Greek mythology, "Asia" () o
"Asie" () was the name of a "Nymph or Titan goddess of Lydia."[18]
Herodotus' geographical puzzlement was perhaps only a form of disagreement, as, having read the
earlier Greek poetry along with everyone else literate, he would have known perfectly well why plac
received female names. Athens, Mycenae, Thebes and many other locations in fact had them. In
ancient Greek religion, places were under the care of female divinities, parallel to guardian angels.
The poets detailed their doings and generations in allegoric language salted with entertaining stories
which subsequently playwrights transformed into classical Greek drama and became "Greek
mythology."
For example, Hesiodmentions the daughters of Tethys and Ocean, among whom are a "holy
company", "who with the Lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping."[19] Many of the
are geographic: Doris, Rhodea, Europa, Asia. Hesiod explains: [20]
"For there are three-thousand neat-ankled daughters of Ocean who are dispersed far
and wide, and in every place alike serve the earth and the deep waters."
The Iliad (attributed by the ancient Greeks to Homer) mentions two Phrygians (the tribe that replace
the Luvians in Lydia) in the Trojan War named Asios (an adjective meaning "Asian");[21] and also a
marsh or lowland containing a marsh in Lydia as .[22]
Etymology
Ptolemy's Asia
Class ica l an t iqu i t y
Malti
Mori
Bahasa Melayu
Mirands
Nhuatl
Dorerin Naoero
Nederlands
Nedersaksisch
NnapulitanoNordfriisk
Norfuk / Pitkern
Norsk (bokml)
Norsk (nynorsk)
Nouormand
Novial
Occitan
Oromoo
Ozbek
Plzisch
Pangasinan
Papiamentu
Picard
Piemontis
Tok Pisin
Plattdtsch
Polski
Portugus
Qaraqalpaqsha
Qrmtatarca
Romn
Rumantsch
Runa Simi
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Before Greek poetry, the Aegean Sea area was in a Greek Dark Age, at the beginning of which
syllabic writing was lost and alphabetic writing had not begun. Prior to then in the Bronze Age the
records of the Assyrian Empire, the Hittite Empire and the various Mycenaean states of Greece
mention a region undoubtedly Asia, certainly in Anatolia, including if not identical to Lydia. These
records are administrative and do not include poetry.
The Mycenaean states were destroyed about 1200 BC by unknown agents although one school of
thought assigns the Dorian invasionto this time. The burning of the palaces baked clay diurnaladministrative records written in a Greek syllabic script called Linear B, deciphered by a number of
interested parties, most notably by a young World War II cryptographer, Michael Ventris, subsequen
assisted by the scholar, John Chadwick. A major cache discovered by Carl Blegen at the site of
ancient Pylos included hundreds of male and female names formed by different methods.
Some of these are of women held in servitude (as study of the society implied by the content revea
They were used in trades, such as cloth-making, and usually came with children. The epithet, lawia
"captives," associated with some of them identifies their origin. Some are ethnic names. One in
particular, aswiai, identifies "women of Asia." [23] Perhaps they were captured in Asia, but some
others, Milatiai, appear to have been of Miletus, a Greek colony, which would not have been raided
for slaves by Greeks. Chadwick suggests that the names record the locations where these foreign
women were purchased. [24] The name is also in the singular, Aswia, which refers both to the nama country and to a female of it. There is a masculine form, aswios. This Aswia appears to have bee
a remnant of a region known to the Hittites as Assuwa, centered on Lydia, or "Roman Asia."
Alternatively, the etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word (w)a(m), which means 't
go outside' or 'to ascend', referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East and also
likely connected with the Phoenician word asameaning east. This may be contrasted to a similar
etymology proposed for Europe, as being from Akkadian erbu(m) 'to enter' or 'set' (of the sun).
T.R. Reid supports this alternative etymology, noting that the ancient Greek name must have derive
from asu, meaning 'east' in Assyrian (ereb for Europemeaning 'west').[14] The ideas of Occidental
(form LatinOccidens 'setting') and Oriental(from Latin Oriensfor 'rising') are also European inventi
synonymous with Westernand Eastern.[14] Reid further emphasizes that it explains the Western poof view of placing all the peoples and cultures of Asia into a single classification, almost as if there
were a need for setting the distinction between Western and Eastern civilizationson the Eurasian
continent.[14] Ogura Kazuo and Tenshin Okakura are two outspoken Japanese figures on the
subject.[14]
Also, Assuwahas been suggested as the origin for the name of the continent "Asia". [25] The Assuw
league was a confederation of states in western Anatolia, defeated by the Hittites under Tudhaliya
around 1400 BC.
Main article:History of Asia
The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct
histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East
Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle Ea
linked by the interior mass of the Central Asian
steppes.
The coastal periphery was home to some of the
world's earliest known civilizations, each of them
developing around fertile river valleys. The civilizatio
Bronze Age
History
Smegiella
Gagana Samoa
Sardu
Scots
Seeltersk
Sesotho
Sesotho sa Leboa
Shqip
Sicilianu
Simple English
Slovenina
Slovenina
lnskiSoomaaliga
Sranantongo
/ Srpski
Srpskohrvatski /
Basa Sunda
Suomi
Svenska
Tagalog
Taqbaylit
Tarandne
/Tatara
Tetun
Trke
Trkmene
/ Uyghurche
Vahcuengh
Vneto
Vepsn kel
Ting Vit
Volapk
Vro
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in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valleyand the Huanghe
shared many similarities. These civilizations may wehave exchanged technologies and ideas such as
mathematics and the wheel. Other innovations, such
as writing, seem to have been developed individually
each area. Cities, states and empires developed in these lowlands.
The central steppe region had long been inhabited by horse-mounted nomads who could reach all
areas of Asia from the steppes. The earliest postulated expansion out of the steppe is that of the
Indo-Europeans, who spread their languages into the Middle East, South Asia, and the borders of
China, where the Tocharians resided. The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, wa
largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra. These
areas remained very sparsely populated.The center and the peripheries were mostly kept
separated by mountains and deserts. The Caucasus
and Himalaya mountains and the Karakum and Gobi
deserts formed barriers that the steppe horsemen
could cross only with difficulty. While the urban city
dwellers were more advanced technologically and
socially, in many cases they could do little in a military
aspect to defend against the mounted hordes of the
steppe. However, the lowlands did not have enough
open grasslands to support a large horsebound force;
for this and other reasons, the nomads who conquered
states in China, India, and the Middle East often found
themselves adapting to the local, more affluent
societies.
The Islamic Caliphate took over the Middle East and
Central Asia during the Muslim conquestsof the 7th century. The Mongol Empire conquered a larg
part of Asia in the 13th century, an area extending from China to Europe.
This section requires expansion.
Main article:Geography of Asia
Geography in Asia is rather complicated, while Asia is the largest continent on Earth, and Asia is
neighboring with Europe, Africa and Oceania. While neighboring with Pacific Ocean and Indian
Ocean. It contains 48 countries[27] in its region, with 2 of them (Russia and Turkey) having part of
their land in Europe, and also see Geography of Asia for further information.
Main article:Economy of Asia
1890 map of Asia
The Silk Roadconnected many civilizations
across Asia[26]
Geography
Economy
Winaray
Wolof
Xitsonga
Yorb
Zazaki
Zeuws
emaitka
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Asia has the second largest nominal GDP of all
continents, after Europe, but the largest when
measured in purchasing power parity. As of 2010, th
largest economies in Asia are China, Japan, India,
South Korea and Indonesia. Based on Global Office
Locations 2011, Asia dominated the office locations
with 4 of top 5 were in Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore
Tokyo, London and Shanghai. Around 68 percent of
international firms have office in Hong Kong.[28]
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the economies o
the PRC[29] and India have been growing rapidly, b
with an average annual growth rate of more than 8%
Other recent very high growth nations in Asia includ
Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam,
Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Cyprus and the Philippines, and mineral-rich nations such as Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Iran, Brunei, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman
According to economic historianAngus Maddison in his book The World Economy: A Millennial
Perspective, India had the world's largest economy during 0 BCE and 1000 BCE. [30][31] China was
the largest and most advanced economy on earth for much of recorded history,[32][33][34][35] until
British Empire (excluding India) overtook it in the mid 19th century. For several decades in the late
twentieth century Japan was the largest economy in Asia and second-largest of any single nation in
the world, after surpassing the Soviet Union(measured in net material product) in 1986 and Germa
in 1968. (NB: A number of supernational economies are larger, such as the European Union(EU),
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or APEC). This ended in 2010 when China overto
Japan to become the world's second largest economy.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's GDP was almost as large (current exchange rate metho
as that of the rest of Asia combined.[citation needed] In 1995, Japan's economy nearly equaled that o
the USA as the largest economy in the world for a day, after the Japanese currency reached a rec
high of 79 yen/US$. Economic growth in Asia since World War II to the 1990s had been concentra
in Japan as well as the four regions of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore located in Pacific Rim, known as the Asian tigers, which have now all received developed country status, hav
the highest GDP per capitain Asia.[36]
It is forecasted that India will overtake Japan in
terms of nominal GDP by 2020.[37] In terms of
GDP per capita, both nominal and PPP-
adjusted, South Korea will become the second
wealthiest country in Asia by 2025, overtaking
Germany, the United Kingdom and France.
According to IMF statistics for the year 2010,
Taiwan PPP-adjusted GDP per capita, at USD34,743, is already higher than that of Finland,
France, or Japan. [citation needed] By 2027,
according to Goldman Sachs, China will have
the largest economy in the world. Several trade
blocs exist, with the most developed being the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resource
such as petroleum, forests, fish, water, rice, copper and silver. Manufacturing in Asia has traditional
been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in the China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan,
India, the Philippines, and Singapore. Japan and South Korea continue to dominate in the area of
Singapore has one of the busiest ports in theworld and is the world's fourth largest foreignexchange trading centre.
Mumbai is one of the most populous cities on thecontinent, is a hub for infrastructure & tourism and playsa crucial role in the Economy of India
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His to r i ca l
popula t ions
Year Pop. %
1500 243,000,000
1700 436,000,000 +79.4
1900 947,000,000 +117.2
1950 1,402,000,000 +48.0
1999 3,634,000,000 +159.2
Source: "UN report 2004 data"
(PDF).
multinational corporations, but increasingly the PRC and India are making significant inroads. Many
companies from Europe, North America, South Korea and Japan have operations in Asia's developi
countries to take advantage of its abundant supply of cheap labour and relatively developed
infrastructure.
According to Citigroup 9 of 11 Global Growth Generators countries came from Asia driven by
population and income growth. They are Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mongolia,
Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.[38] Asia has four main financial centres: Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Singapore and Shanghai. Call centres and business process outsourcing(BPOs) are becoming ma
employers in India and the Philippines due to the availability of a large pool of highly skilled, Englishspeaking workers. The increased use of outsourcing has assisted the rise of India and the China as
financial centres. Due to its large and extremely competitive information technology industry, India h
become a major hub for outsourcing.
In 2010, Asia had 3.3 million millionaires (people with net worth over US$1 million excluding their
homes), slightly below North America with 3.4 million millionaires. Last year Asia had toppled
Europe.[39] Citigroup in The Wealth Report 2012 stated that Asian centa-millionaire overtook North
America's wealth for the first time as the world's "economic center of gravity" continued moving eas
At the end of 2011, there were 18,000 Asian people mainly in Southeast Asia, China and Japan wh
have at least $100 million in disposable assets, while North America with 17,000 people and Weste
Europe with 14,000 people.[40]
Main article:Demographics of Asia
East Asia had by far the strongest overall Human Development Index
(HDI) improvement of any region in the world, nearly doubling
average HDI attainment over the past 40 years, according to the
reports analysis of health, education and income data. China, the
second highest achiever in the world in terms of HDI improvement
since 1970, is the only country on the Top 10 Movers list due to
income rather than health or education achievements. Its per capita
income increased a stunning 21-fold over the last four decades, also
lifting hundreds of millions out of income poverty. Yet it was not
among the regions top performers in improving school enrolment
and life expectancy.[41]
Nepal, a South Asian country, emerges as one of the worlds fastest
movers since 1970 mainly due to health and education
achievements. Its present life expectancy is 25 years longer than in the 1970s. More than four of
every five children of school age in Nepal now attend primary school, compared to just one in five 4
years ago.[41]
Japan and South Korea ranked highest among the countries grouped on the HDI (number 11 and 1
in the world, which are in the very high human development category), followed by Hong Kong(SAR)(21) and Singapore (27). Afghanistan (155) ranked lowest amongst Asian countries out of the
169 countries assessed.[41]
Main article:Languages of Asia
Asia is home to several language families and many language isolates. Most Asian countries have
more than one language that is natively spoken. For instance, according to Ethnologue, more than
600 languages are spoken in Indonesia, more than 800 languages spoken in India, and more than 1
are spoken in the Philippines. China has many languages and dialects in different provinces.
Demographics
Languages
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See also:Eastern philosophy, Religion in Asia, andList of Asian mythologies
Asian mythology is complex and diverse. The story of the
Great Flood for example, as presented to Christians in th
Old Testament, is first found in Mesopotamian mythology
the Epic of Gilgamesh. Hindu mythology tells about an