Asia
Asia is home to the majority of humanity, lively cities, sublime landscapes and almost endless options. Asia varies from the mega-cities and technology capitals of East Asia to the magnificent monuments in South Asia, and from the beach bungalows and jungle treks of Southeast Asia to the desert ruins and modern mega-malls of the Middle East.Tap on the map to travel |
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East Asia
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East Asia was the cradle of ancient civilizations such as Imperial China, ancient Korea, ancient Japan, and the Mongol Empire, and is today home to 1.6 billion people.
South Asia
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South Asia, also known as the Indian Subcontinent, is a triangular landmass bordered by the Himalayas in the north, the Indian Ocean in the south, and the Ganges and Indus river valleys in east and west.
Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia is a group of diverse tropical countries between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, featuring cultures influenced by both India and China and hosting large communities of Overseas Chinese.
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Middle East
The Middle East is a region mainly in Western Asia, between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.Central Asia
Central Asia is a rugged, arid region, historically coveted for its position between Europe and…Asia
- Type: Locality with 4,610,000,000 residents
- Description: continent
- Neighbors: Africa and Europe
- Categories: continent, part of the world and region
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Latitude of center
35° northLongitude of center
99° eastPopulation
4,610,000,000OpenStreetMap ID
node 36966065OpenStreetMap Feature
place=continentWikidata ID
Q48Asia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Asya
- Abkhazian: Азиа
- Achinese: Asia
- Adyghe: Азие
- Afar: Aziya
- Afrikaans: Asië
- Akan: Ehyia
- Albanian: Azia
- Amharic: እስያ
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ασία
- Angika: एशिया
- Arabic: Asya
- Arabic: آسيا
- Aragonese: Asia
- Armenian: Ասիա
- Arpitan: Asia
- Assamese: এছিয়া
- Asturian: Asia
- Atayal: Aziya
- Avaric: Asia
- Avaric: Азия
- Aymara: Asya
- Azerbaijani: Asiya
- Balinese: Asia
- Bambara: Asia
- Banjar: Asia
- Bashkir: Азия
- Basque: Asia
- Batak Toba: Asia
- Bavarian: Asien
- Belarusian: Азія
- Bengali: এশিয়া
- Bengali: এশিয়া মহাদেশ
- Bengali: এশীয় মহাদেশ
- Bhojpuri: एशिया
- Bhojpuri: एशिया महादीप
- Bishnupriya: এশিয়া
- Bislama: Asia
- Bosnian: Azija
- Brahui: Eşíá
- Breton: Azia
- Bulgarian: Азия
- Burmese: အာရှ
- Catalan: Continent Asiàtic
- Catalan: Continent asiàtic
- Catalan: Àsia
- Cebuano: Asya
- Central Bikol: Asya
- Central Kurdish: ئاسیا
- Chamorro: Asia
- Chavacano: Asia
- Chechen: Ази
- Cherokee: ᎡᏏᏱ
- Cherokee: ᏓᎶᏂᎦᏍᏛ
- Cheyenne: Asia
- Chinese: A-chiu
- Chinese: 亚洲/亞洲
- Chinese: 亚洲
- Chinese: 亚细亚
- Chinese: 亞洲
- Chinese: 亞細亞
- Chinese: 亞細亞洲
- Chinese: 亞细亞
- Chinese: 日出之地
- Chinese: 東日洲
- Church Slavic: Асїꙗ
- Chuvash: Ази
- Cornish: Asi
- Corsican: Asia
- Crimean Tatar: Asiya
- Croatian: Azija
- Czech: Asie
- Czech: kontinent zla
- Dagbani: Asia
- Danish: Asien
- Danish: ondskabens kontinent
- Dhivehi: އޭޝިއާ
- Dimli (individual language): Asya
- Dotyali: एसिया
- Dutch: Aziatische continent
- Dutch: Azie
- Dutch: Azië
- Dzongkha: ཨེ་སི་ཡ་
- Eastern Mari: Азий
- Egyptian Arabic: اسيا
- English: Asian continent
- Erzya: Азия Мастор
- Esperanto: Azio
- Estonian: Aasia
- Extremaduran: Ásia
- Faroese: Asia
- Fiji Hindi: Asia
- Fijian: Esia
- Finnish: Aasia
- Finnish: Asia
- French: Asie
- Friulian: Asie
- Fulah: Aasiya
- Gagauz: Aziya
- Galician: Asia
- Galician: آسيا
- Gan Chinese: 亞洲
- Ganda: Asia
- Georgian: აზია
- German: Asien
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Asia
- Gilaki: آسیا
- Goan Konkani: आशिया खंड
- Goan Konkani: ಏಷ್ಯಾ
- Gorontalo: Asia
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰
- Greek: Ασία
- Guarani: Ásia
- Guianese Creole French: Lazi
- Gujarati: એશિયા
- Haitian: Azi
- Hakka Chinese: Â-chû
- Hausa: Asiya
- Hausa: Â-chû
- Hausa: ʻĀkia
- Hawaiian: ‘Ākia
- Hebrew: אסיה
- Hindi: एशिया
- Hungarian: Ázsia
- Icelandic: Asía
- Ido: Azia
- Igbo: Asia
- Iloko: Asia
- Inari Sami: Aasia
- Indonesian: Asia
- Indonesian: benua Asia
- Ingush: Ази
- Interlingua: Asia
- Interlingue: Asia
- Inuktitut: ᐊᓰᐊ
- Irish: An Áise
- Irish: an Áise
- Italian: Asia
- Jamaican Creole English: Ieja
- Japanese: Ajia
- Japanese: あじあ
- Japanese: アジア
- Japanese: アズィヤ
- Japanese: 亜
- Japanese: 亜州
- Japanese: 亜細亜
- Javanese: Asia
- Kabardian: Азиэ
- Kabiyè: Aazii tɛtʋ wandamm
- Kabyle: Asya
- Kadazan Dusun: Asia
- Kalaallisut: Asia
- Kalmyk: Азия
- Kannada: ಏಷ್ಯಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Aziya
- Karachay-Balkar: Азия
- Kashmiri: ایشیا
- Kashubian: Azëjô
- Kazakh: Азия
- Khmer: អាស៊ី
- Kinyarwanda: Aziya
- Kirghiz: Азия
- Komi-Permyak: Азия
- Komi: Азия
- Kongo: Azia
- Korean: 아세아
- Korean: 아시아
- Kotava: Asia
- Kurdish: Asya
- Ladin: Asia
- Ladino: Asya
- Lak: Азия
- Lao: Asia
- Lao: ອາຊີ
- Latgalian: Azeja
- Latin: Asia
- Latvian: Āzija
- Lezghian: Азия
- Ligurian: Asia
- Limburgan: Azië
- Lingala: Azía
- Lingua Franca Nova: Asia
- Literary Chinese: 亞洲
- Literary Chinese: 亞細亞
- Literary Chinese: 亞細亞洲
- Lithuanian: Azija
- Livvi: Aazii
- Lojban: zdotu'a
- Lombard: Asia
- Low German: Asien
- Low German: Azie
- Lower Sorbian: Azija
- Luxembourgish: Asien
- Macedo-Romanian: Asia
- Macedonian: Азија
- Maithili: एशिया
- Malagasy: Azia
- Malay: Asia
- Malay: اسيا
- Malayalam: ഏഷ്യ
- Maltese: Asja
- Manipuri: ꯑꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ
- Manx: Yn Aishey
- Maori: Āhia
- Marathi: आशिया
- Mazanderani: آسیا
- Min Dong Chinese: Ā-ciŭ
- Min Nan Chinese: A-chiu
- Min Nan Chinese: À-chiu
- Minangkabau: Asia
- Mingrelian: აზია
- Mirandese: Ásia
- Moksha: Азия
- Moksha: Азиясь
- Mon: အာရှ
- Mongolian: Ази
- Mongolian: အာရှ
- Mongolian: ꯑꯦꯁꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: آسيا
- Moroccan Arabic: أسيا
- N'Ko: ߊߖ߭ߌ߫
- Narom: Âsie
- Nauru: Eija
- Navajo: (*"asia")
- Navajo: (*'asia')
- Ndonga: Asia
- Neapolitan: Asia
- Nepali: एसिया
- Newari: एसिया
- Nias: Asia
- Northern Frisian: Aasien
- Northern Luri: آسیا
- Northern Sami: Ásia
- Norwegian: Asia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Asia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Asia
- Novial: Asia
- Nyanja: Asia
- Occitan (post 1500): Asia
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܣܝܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Asia
- Oriya: ଏସିଆ
- Oromo: Eeshiyaa
- Oromo: Eshiyaa
- Ossetian: Ази
- Pa'o Karen: အာသျ
- Paiwan: Asiya
- Pampanga: Asia
- Pangasinan: Asia
- Panjabi: ਏਸ਼ੀਆ
- Papiamento: Asia
- Pedi: Asia
- Pennsylvania German: Asie
- Persian: آسیا
- Pfaelzisch: Asie
- Pfaelzisch: Asien
- Picard: Asie
- Piemontese: Asia
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Asya
- Polish: Azja
- Polish: kontynent azjatycki
- Pontic: Ασίαν
- Portuguese: continente asiático
- Portuguese: Ásia
- Pushto: آسيا
- Quechua: Asiya
- Quechua: Asya
- Romanian: Asia
- Romansh: Asia
- Russia Buriat: Аази
- Russia Buriat: Ази
- Russian: Азия
- Rusyn: Азія
- Sakizaya: Ya-cuo
- Samoan: Asia
- Samogitian: Azėjė
- Sango: Asie
- Sanskrit: एशियाखण्डः
- Sanskrit: जम्बुद्वीपः
- Sanskrit: जम्बूद्वीपः
- Santali: ᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ
- Saraiki: ایشیاء
- Sardinian: Asia
- Sardinian: Àsia
- Saterfriesisch: Asien
- Scots: Aisie
- Scots: Asie
- Scottish Gaelic: Àisia
- Serbian: Азија
- Serbo-Croatian: Asya
- Serbo-Croatian: Azija
- Shan: ဢေးသျိူဝ်း
- Shan: ဢေးသျႃး
- Shona: Asia
- Shona: Ezhiya
- Sicilian: Asia
- Silesian: Azyjo
- Sindhi: ايشيا
- Sinhala: ආසියාව
- Skolt Sami: Aasia
- Slovak: Ázia
- Slovenian: Azija
- Somali: Aasiya
- South Azerbaijani: آسیا
- Southern Sotho: Asia
- Spanish: Asia
- Spanish: continente asiático
- Spanish: continente de Asia
- Sranan Tongo: Asi
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵣⵉⵜ
- Sundanese: Asia
- Swahili: Asia
- Swedish: Asia
- Swedish: Asien
- Swiss German: Asie
- Tachelhit: Asya
- Tagalog: Asya
- Tahitian: ’Ātia
- Tajik: Осиё
- Talysh: Asijə
- Talysh: Asiyə
- Tamil: ஆசிய கண்டம்
- Tamil: ஆசியக் கண்டம்
- Tamil: ஆசியா
- Tatar: Asia
- Tatar: Азия
- Tatar: Асия
- Telugu: ఆసియా
- Tetum: Ázia
- Thai: Asia
- Thai: ทวีปเอเชีย
- Thai: ทวีปเอเซีย
- Thai: เอเชีย
- Thai: เอเซีย
- Tibetan: ཨེ་ཤེ་ཡ།
- Tigrinya: ኣስያ
- Tigrinya: ኤስያ
- Tigrinya: ኤሽያ
- Tigrinya: እስያ
- Tok Pisin: Esia
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻĒsia
- Tosk Albanian: Asien
- Tsonga: Asia
- Tsonga: Axiya
- Tulu: ಏಷ್ಯಾ
- Tumbuka: Asia
- Turkish: Asya
- Turkish: Asya kıtası
- Turkmen: Aziýa
- Tuvinian: Азия
- Twi: Ehyia
- Tyap: A̱siya
- Udmurt: Азия
- Uighur: ئاسىيا
- Ukrainian: Азія
- Upper Sorbian: Azija
- Urdu: ایشیا
- Uzbek: Osiyo
- Venetian: Àzia
- Veps: Azii
- Vietnamese: Châu Á
- Vietnamese: châu Á
- Vietnamese: Á
- Vietnamese: Á châu
- Vlaams: Azië
- Vlax Romani: Asia
- Vlax Romani: Asiya
- Volapük: Siyop
- Võro: Aasia
- Walloon: Azeye
- Waray (Philippines): Asya
- Welsh: Asia
- Western Armenian: Ասիա
- Western Frisian: Aazje
- Western Mari: Ази
- Western Panjabi: ایشیا
- Western Panjabi: ایشیاء
- Wolof: Asi
- Wu Chinese: 亚洲
- Wu Chinese: 亚细亚
- Wu Chinese: 亚细亚洲
- Xhosa: I-Eshiya
- Yakut: Азия
- Yiddish: אזיע
- Yoruba: Ásíà
- Yue Chinese: 亞洲
- Yue Chinese: 亞細亞
- Yue Chinese: 亞細亞洲
- Yue Chinese: 亞西亞洲
- Yue Chinese: 日出之地
- Yue Chinese: 東日洲
- Zeeuws: Azië
- Zhuang: Yacouh
- Zulu: I-Eshiya
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