Peta dunia menunjukkan Asia BenuaAsia (Jawi :اسيا ) ialah sebuah kawasan yang meliputiArab Saudi di barat,Rusia di utara, KepulauanMaldives di selatan, danJepun di timur. Sempadan Asia-Eropah dikatakan terletak di Laut Caspia, Laut Hitam, Pergunungan Caucus, Laut Marmara, Sungai Ural dan Pergunungan Ural. Manakala sempadan Asia-Afrika ialah Terusan Suez, dan Asia-Australia terletak di sempadan Papua, Indonesia dan Papua New Guinea.
Asia merupakanbenua yang terbesar didunia iaitu 55.8 juta km persegi.
Benua ini menempatkan jumlah penduduk paling ramai, iaitu lebih kurang 60% daripada populasi dunia.
Kedudukan Benua Asia menganjung dari garis bujur 28' Timur sehingga 170' Barat dan dari garis lintang 10 ' Selatan sehingga 75' Utara.Benua Asia direntasi oleh Garisan Artik, Garisan Sartan dan Garisan Khatulistiwa.
Geografi Asia dibahagikan kepada beberapa sub-kawasan:
Bendera Jata Nama Populasi Kawasan (km²) Ibu kota Afghanistan 30,419,928 647,500 Kabul Armenia 2,970,495 29,743 Yerevan Azerbaijan 9,493,600 86,600 Baku Bahrain 1,248,348 760 Manama Bangladesh 150,039,000 147,570 Dhaka Bhutan 716,896 38,394 Thimphu Brunei 408,786 5,765 Bandar Seri Begawan Myanmar 54,584,650 676,578 Naypyidaw Kemboja 14,952,665 181,035 Phnom Penh Republik Rakyat China 1,343,239,923 9,596,961 Beijing Cyprus 1,099,341 9,251 Nicosia Timor Leste 1,143,667 14,874 Dili Republik Georgia 4,570,934 69,700 Tbilisi India 1,205,073,612 3,287,263 New Delhi Indonesia 248,645,008 1,904,569 Jakarta Iran 78,868,711 1,648,195 Tehran Iraq 31,129,225 438,317 Baghdad Jepun 127,368,088 377,915 Tokyo Jordan 6,508,887 89,342 Amman Kazakhstan 17,522,010 2,724,900 Astana Kuwait 2,646,314 17,818 Kuwait City Kyrgyzstan 5,496,737 199,951 Bishkek Laos 6,586,266 236,800 Vientiane Lubnan 4,140,289 10,400 Beirut Malaysia 29,179,952 329,847 Kuala Lumpur Maldives 394,451 298 Malé Mongolia 3,179,997 1,564,116 Ulaanbaatar Nepal 29,890,686 147,181 Kathmandu Korea Utara 24,589,122 120,538 Pyongyang Oman 3,090,150 309,500 Muscat Pakistan 190,291,129 796,095 Islamabad Palestin 4,279,699 6,220 Baitulmaqdis Filipina 100,187,700 300,000 Manila Qatar 1,951,591 11,586 Doha Rusia 142,517,670 17,098,242 Moscow Arab Saudi 26,534,504 2,149,690 Riyadh Singapura 5,353,494 697 Singapore Sri Lanka 21,481,334 65,610 Colombo Korea Selatan 50,004,441 100,210 Seoul Syria 22,530,746 185,180 Damascus Republik China di Taiwan 23,261,747 36,193 Taipei Tajikistan 7,768,385 143,100 Dushanbe Thailand 67,091,089 513,120 Bangkok Turki 79,749,461 783,562 Ankara Turkmenistan 5,054,828 488,100 Ashgabat Emiriah Arab Bersatu 5,314,317 83,600 Abu Dhabi Uzbekistan 28,394,180 447,400 Tashkent Vietnam 91,519,289 331,212 Hanoi Yaman 24,771,809 527,968 Sana'a
Rusia (Moscow )Kazakhstan (Astana )Uzbekistan (Tashkent )Tajikistan (Dushanbe )Turkmenistan (Ashgabat )Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek )Afghanistan (Kabul )Kadang-kadang termasuk:
wilayah-wilayah PR China sepertiGansu ,Ningxia ,Qinghai ,Tibet danXinjiang Jepun (Tokyo )PDR Korea (Pyongyang )Republik Korea (Seoul )PR China (Beijing )ROC Taiwan (Taipei )Mongolia (Ulan Bator )Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur )Thailand (Bangkok )Laos (Vientiane )Kemboja (Phnom Penh )Vietnam (Hanoi )Filipina (Manila )Brunei Darussalam (Bandar Seri Begawan )Indonesia (Jakarta )Singapura (Singapore City )Timor Leste (Dili )Myanmar (Naypyidaw )India (New Delhi )Pakistan (Islamabad )Bangladesh (Dhaka )Nepal (Kathmandu )Bhutan (Thimphu )Sri Lanka (Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte )Maldives (Malé )Turki (Ankara )Jordan (Amman )Lubnan (Beirut )Syria (Damsyik )Palestin (Baitulmaqdis )Arab Saudi (Riyadh )Emiriah Arab Bersatu (Abu Dhabi )Yaman (Sana'a )Qatar (Doha )Bahrain (Manama )Oman (Muscat )Iraq (Baghdad )Kuwait (Kuwait City )Iran (Tehran )Republik Georgia (Tbilisi )Azerbaijan (Baku )Armenia (Yerevan )
Senarai negara-negara Asia mengikut populasi Sesetengah negara sepertiGeorgia ,Azerbaijan danArmenia boleh juga dianggap sebahagian Eropah.
Tebing Barat dan Gaza digabungkan sebagaiPalestin .
negara kepadatan penduduk luas penduduk (km-2 ) (km2 ) (2002-07-01 est.) Macau (PRC)18,000 25 461,833 Hong Kong (PRC)6,688 1,092 7,303,334 Singapura 6,430 693 4,452,732 Maldives 1,070 300 320,165 Bahrain 987 665 656,397 Bangladesh 926 144,000 133,376,684 Republik China (Taiwan ,Quemoy ,Matsu )627 35,980 22,548,009 Palestin 545 6,220 3,389,578 Korea Selatan 491 98,480 48,324,000 Lubnan 354 10,400 3,677,780 Jepun 336 377,835 126,974,628 India 318 3,287,590 1,045,845,226 Sri Lanka 298 65,610 19,576,783 Israel 290 20,770 6,029,529 Filipina 282 300,000 84,525,639 Vietnam 246 329,560 81,098,416 Korea Utara 184 120,540 22,224,195 Nepal 184 140,800 25,873,917 Pakistan 184 803,940 147,663,429 Republik Rakyat China (Tanah Besar )134 9,596,960 1,284,303,705 Thailand 121 514,000 62,354,402 Indonesia 121 1,919,440 231,328,092 Kuwait 118 17,820 2,111,561 Armenia 112 29,800 3,330,099 Syria 93 185,180 17,155,814 Azerbaijan 90 86,600 7,798,497 Turki 86 780,580 67,308,928 Georgia 71 69,700 4,960,951 Kemboja 71 181,040 12,775,324 Mesir 71 1,001,450 70,712,345 Qatar 69 11,437 793,341 Malaysia 69 329,750 22,662,365 Timor Timur 63 15,007 952,618 Myanmar 62 678,500 42,238,224 Brunei 61 5,770 350,898 Jordan 58 92,300 5,307,470 Uzbekistan 57 447,400 25,563,441 Iraq 55 437,072 24,001,816 Tajikistan 47 143,100 6,719,567 Bhutan 45 47,000 2,094,176 Afghanistan 43 647,500 27,755,775 Iran 40 1,648,000 66,622,704 Yaman 35 527,970 18,701,257 Emiriah Arab Bersatu 30 82,,880 2,445,989 Laos 24 236,800 5,777,180 Kyrgyzstan 24 198,500 4,822,166 Oman 13 212,460 2,713,462 Arab Saudi 12 1,960,582 23,513,330 Turkmenistan 9.6 488,100 4,688,963 Rusia 8.5 17,075,200 144,978,573 Kazakhstan 6.2 2,717,300 16,741,519 Mongolia 1.7 1,565,000 2,694,432
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