Countries of Asia. Some Facts about Asia. Geohistory

• Northern Asia: Russia (Siberia)
• Western Asia: Bahrain, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates
• Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
• Eastern Asia: Japan, Mongolia, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Taiwan, Province of China, China , South Korea (Republic of Korea)
• Southern Asia: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Southeast Asia: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos (Lao People's Democratic Republic ), Myanmar  (Burma), Thailand, Timor-Leste, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

Asia is the largest of the five continents on Planet Earth in area and population. The term Asia refers conventionally to the eastern portion of the Eurasian landmass plus the island country of Japan and the island nations of Maritime Southeast Asia.

Major Subregions: Arabian Peninsula, Indian subcontinent, Indochinese Peninsula, Maritime Southeast Asia, the Japanese archipelago.

The area is shared by 48 countries. By far the largest nation by area is Russia, with more than 17 million km², 13 million km² (77%) are in Asia. The second-largest country is China, with an area of 9.6 million km².

An estimated 4.6 billion people live in Asia, which is about 60 percent of the world's population. 1.42 billion of those people live in China (in 2020). Seven out of ten of the most populated countries are in Asia.

There are more than 2,000 living languages throughout Asia. Major languages are Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Russian, Thai, Turkic, Urdu, Vietnamese and other.