Portal:Asia/Geography

border=#000000 Main   Geography   Projects Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries. Central Asia Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan. East Asia China, Hong Kong, Macau, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia. North Asia Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Asia-Pacific region of Russia – an area east of the Ural Mountains. Southeast Asia Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam. Western Asia Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. Alternatively called Southwestern Asia. The Middle East, a widely used designation, constitutes roughly the same area, minus Egypt. South Asia Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh. A common approximate synonym for South Asia is the Indian subcontinent, plus Afghanistan.