ABOUT ASIA

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BASIC FACTS
Population: 3,335,672,000 Density: 193.5 per square mile Literacy: 65.5% Birth Rate: 27 people a year per 1,000 people Death Rate: 9.25 people a year per 1,000 people Growth Rate: 1.8% Main Languages: Chinese, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Punjabi, Javanese, Korean Principal Religions: Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Shintoism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism Largest Cities: Seoul, Bombay, Jakarta, Tokyo, Shanghai Consisting Countries

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 Asia is the world's largest and most populous

continent  it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.  The wealth of Asia differs very widely among and within its regions, due to its vast size and huge range of different ethnic groups, cultures, environments, historical ties and government systems.

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 Asia is traditionally defined as part of the

landmass of Eurasiawith the western portion of the latter occupied by Europelocated 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.

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 Asia is the largest and most culturally diverse of

the continents in the seven-continent system, and does not exactly match with conventional Asian cultural boundaries.  The term "Asia" is originally a concept exclusively of Western civilization  The word Asia originated from the Greek word , first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BC) in reference to Anatolia orin describing the Persian Warsto the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt.

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The countries in this table are categorized according to the scheme for geographic sub regions used by the United Nations, and data included are per sources in cross-referenced articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.

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Based on the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations, the continent of Asia is sub-divided into the following:  Central Asia;  Eastern Asia;  Northern Asia;  South Eastern Asia;  Southern Asia; and,  Western Asia

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Identify the countries in Asia per sub-regions based on the following inputs:
Name of region and territory, with flag

Area (km)

Capital

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Population

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Name of region and territory, with flag Central Asia:

Area (km)

Capital

Form of Government

Population

Currency

Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

2,724,927 198,500 143,100 488,100 447,400

Astana Bishkek Dushanbe Ashgabat Tashkent

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Name of region and territory, with flag Eastern Asia:
Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea People's Republic of China Republic of China (Taiwan) South Korea 1,092 377,835 25 1,565,000 120,540 9,640,821 36,191 98,480 Ulaan Baatar Pyongyang Beijing Taipei Seoul Tokyo

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Name of region and territory, with flag Northern Asia:

Area (km)

Capital

Form of Government

Population

Currency

Russia

17,075,400

Moscow

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Name of region and territory, with flag

Area (km)

Capital

Form of Government

Population

Currency

South Eastern Asia:

Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia East Timor (Timor-Leste) Indonesia Laos Malaysia Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam 5,770 676,578
Bandar Seri Begawan

Naypyidaw

181,035 Phnom Penh 15,007 1,919,440 236,800

Dili Jakarta Vientiane

329,847 Kuala Lumpur 300,000 704 514,000 331,690

Manila Singapore Bangkok Hanoi

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Name of region and territory, with flag
Southern Asia: Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan 647,500 147,570 38,394 3,287,263 300 147,181 803,940 Kabul Dhaka Thimphu New Delhi Mal Kathmandu Islamabad

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Capital

Form of Government

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Currency

Sri Lanka

Sri 65,610 Jayawardenapur a-Kotte

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Name of region and territory, with flag Western Asia:
Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Cyprus Georgia Iraq Iran Israel Jordan 29,800 86,660 665 9,250 69,700 437,072 1,648,195 20,770 92,300 Yerevan Baku Manama Nicosia Tbilisi Baghdad Tehran Jerusalem Amman

Area (km)

Capital

Form of Government

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Currency

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Name of region and territory, with flag Western Asia:
Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian territories Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey United Arab Emirates Yemen 82,880 527,970 17,820 10,452 212,460 6,257 11,437 1,960,582 185,180 Kuwait City Beirut Muscat Ramallah Doha Riyadh Damascus Ankara Abu Dhabi Sana

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Capital

Form of Government

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Special Notes:

Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey are often considered to be transcontinental countries, spanning both Asia and Europe. Many organizations, such as the BBC place them in Europe, while others such as the CIA include them in Asia. All are included in European organizations such as the Council of Europe and are considered to be European, and thus eligible to join, by the European Union.

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Special Notes:

Indonesia is often considered a transcontinental country with territory in both Asia and Oceania Russia is considered a transcontinental country with territory in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia; population and area figures are for the entire state. The island of Cyprus is located on the Anatolian plate, but is a member of European organizations such as the Council of Europe and the European Union. Armenia is similarly located fully within Asia, but is a member of the Council of Europe.

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Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth. In its broad sense, it is a study of the people, their environment and the resources available to them. Five themes sum up the impact of geography on history: Location; Place; Human-environment interaction; Movement; and, Region.

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Assignment: Explain how these five themes affect history?

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Five themes sum up the impact of geography on history: Location. Tells where the place is on the surface of the Earth by using: Exact location refers to the use of longitude (measures the distance east or west of the prime meridian) and latitude (measures the distance north or south of the equator); Relative location where one place is located in relation to another, is some times more important than exact location

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Place in terms of:  Physical features of a place include landforms, bodies of water, climate, soil, quality resources, plants and animal life

 Human characteristics include where most people live, their economic activities, religious beliefs and languages.

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Human-environment interaction  Since the dawn of time people have interacted with their environment they have shaped and been shaped by the places in which they lived. It makes us wonder how these changes made an impact on the way we see and treated the environment

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Movement  The movement of people, goods and ideas as a result of mans quest for standard of living Region  Geographers divide the world into many types of region based on physical, cultural, economic and political features

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