Parent Category: Asia

Asia Asia continents referred to, is the largest continent of the world's seven continents in the area. Most of its land located in the Eastern Hemisphere and Northern Hemisphere. Traditionally been defined as the part of the Africa - Asia and Europe. Across a very wide latitude and longitude, what the time difference of 11 hours. Asia across the frigid, temperate and tropical zone, the basic characteristics of the climate is strongly continental climate typical monsoon climate, the complexity of the climate types. Habits in geographically divided into East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia and North Asia. The 2000 population of 3.672 billion people, accounting for 60.5% of the total world population.

Continents of Asia (Zi ancient Greek: Ασ? Alpha; Latin: Asia; French: Asie; English: Asia), referred to as Asia, the seven continents in the area of ​​the most widely used cross-latitude west distance of the longest and the most populous Chau. Covered the Earth's total area of ​​8.6% (or 29.4% of the total land area). The total population of approximately 3.68 billion, accounting for 62.5 percent of the world's total population (2010).

The western part of the Africa - Eurasia, compared to Europe. The boundary between Asia and Africa to the Suez Canal. Suez Canal, east of Asia. The boundary between Asia and Europe for the Turkish Straits, the Ural Mountains, the Greater Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. Ural Mountains east and the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea south Asia. Mainland east to the Bering Strait, Jason Day the Benioff angle (longitude 169 ° 40 'north latitude and 60 ° 5'), south Nusa Tenggara Islands (longitude 103 ° 30 'south latitude, 11 ° 7') west Baba angle (longitude 26 ° 3 'latitude north to a cut Darius Golden Horn (39 ° 27'), longitude 104 ° 18 'north latitude and 77 ° 43'), the highest peak is Mount Everest. Western Europe connected to the formation of the planet's largest land mass of Eurasia.

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