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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

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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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

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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

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