Asia Political Map - Vinyl - A0 Size 84.1 x 118.9 cm

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The total area of Asia, including Asian Russia (with the Caucasian isthmus) but excluding the island of New Guinea, amounts to some 17,226,200 square miles (44,614,000 square km), roughly one-third of the land surface of Earth. A historical movement of population from the arid zones of Central Asia has followed the mountain passes into the Indian subcontinent. The term was later adopted by the Romans, who used it in reference to the province of Asia, located in western Anatolia. The continent is divided into six geographic sub-regions: Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.

Most of those units had coalesced as a continental landmass by about 160 million years ago, when the core of the Indian subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide with the southern flank of Asia about 50 million to 40 million years ago. A survey carried out in 2010 by global risk analysis farm Maplecroft identified 16 countries that are extremely vulnerable to climate change.

He reports that Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus, but that Lydians say it was named after Asies, son of Cotys, who passed the name on to a tribe at Sardis. Before the Mongol invasion, Song dynasty reportedly had approximately 120 million citizens; the 1300 census which followed the invasion reported roughly 60 million people. For the average Westerner point of view, Asia represents foremost the spices of India, Sushi and Kobe beef from Japan, silk and fine china from China.

Confucianism is found predominantly in mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and in overseas Chinese populations.In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; [115] it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively. Some Arab countries took economic advantage of massive oil deposits that were discovered in their territory, becoming globally influential. Covers the area north to Tajikistan and western China, south to Sri Lanka, west to Afghanistan, and east to Burma. Vibrant indigenous minorities in West Asia are adhering to the Eastern Catholic Churches and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Singapore.In geologic terms, Asia comprises several very ancient continental platforms and other blocks of land that merged over the eons. Various Western powers dominated China in what later became known as the " century of humiliation", with the British-supported opium trade and later Opium Wars resulting in China being forced into an unprecedented situation of importing more than it exported.

The physical map of Asia shown above was prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, better known as the CIA, in August 2013.He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. In addition, the peoples of Asia have established the broadest variety of human adaptation found on any of the continents.