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ABOUT ASIAABOUT ASIA
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BASIC FACTSBASIC FACTS
Population: 3,335,672,000
Density: 193.5 persquare mile
Literacy: 65.5%
Birth Rate: 27 people a yearper 1,000 people
Death Rate: 9.25 people a yearper 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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BASIC FACTSBASIC FACTS
Asia is the world's largest and most populouscontinent
it hosts 60% ofthe world's current human
population.
The wealth ofAsia differs very widely among
andwithin its regions, due to its vast size and
huge range ofdifferent ethnic groups, cultures,
environments, historical ties andgovernmentsystems.
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Asia is traditionally defined aspart ofthelandmassofEurasiawith the westernportion
ofthe latteroccupied by Europelocated to the
east ofthe Suez Canal, east of the Ural
Mountains andsouth ofthe CaucasusMountains (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 andon the north by theArctic Ocean.
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BASIC FACTSBASIC FACTS
Asia is the largest and most culturally diverse of
the continents in the seven-continent system,anddoesnot exactly match with conventional
Asian cultural boundaries.
The term "A
sia" isoriginally a conceptexclusively ofWestern civilization
The wordAsia originatedfrom the Greek word
, first attributed to Herodotus (about 440
BC) in reference toAnatolia orindescribingthe Persian Warsto the Persian Empire, in
contrast to Greece and Egypt.
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BASIC FACTS
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
The countries in this table are categorizedaccording to the scheme forgeographic sub
regions used by the United Nations, anddata
included are persources in cross-referenced
articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearlyindicated.
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Basedon the scheme forgeographic subregionsused by the United Nations, the continent ofAsia
issub-divided into the following:
Central Asia;
EasternAsia;
NorthernAsia;
South EasternAsia;
SouthernAsia; and,
WesternAsia
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Name
of region and
territory,
with flag
Area(km)
Capital Form ofGovernment
Population Currency
ASSIGNMENT - Due date: Monday
Lettersize, Landscape, Font 12 Times New Roman
Identify the countries inAsia persub-regions basedon the following inputs:
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Name of region
and
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
Central Asia:
Kazakhstan 2,724,9272,724,927 Astana
Kyrgyzstan 198,500198,500 Bishkek
Tajikistan 143,100143,100 Dushanbe
Turkmenistan 488,100488,100A
shgabat
Uzbekistan 447,400447,400 Tashkent
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Eastern Asia:
Hong Kong 1,092
Japan 377,835 Tokyo
Macau 25
Mongolia 1,565,000 Ulaan Baatar
North Korea 120,540 Pyongyang
People's
Republic ofChina9,640,821 Beijing
Republic of
China (Taiwan)36,191 Taipei
South Korea 98,480 Seoul
Name of region
and
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
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Name of regionand
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
Northern Asia:
Russia 17,075,400 Moscow
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Name of region
and
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
South Eastern Asia:
Brunei 5,770 Bandar Seri Begawan
Burma
(Myanmar)676,578 Naypyidaw
Cambodia 181,035 Phnom Penh
East Timor
(Timor-Leste)15,007 Dili
Indonesia 1,919,440 Jakarta
Laos 236,800 Vientiane
Malaysia 329,847 Kuala LumpurPhilippines 300,000 Manila
Singapore 704 Singapore
Thailand 514,000 Bangkok
Vietnam 331,690 Hanoi
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Name of region
and
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
Southern Asia:
Afghanistan 647,500 Kabul
Bangladesh 147,570 Dhaka
Bhutan 38,394 Thimphu
India 3,287,263 New Delhi
Maldives 300 Mal
Nepal 147,181 Kathmandu
Pakistan 803,940 Islamabad
Sri Lanka 65,610
Sri
Jayawardenapur
a-Kotte
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Name of region
and
territory,
with flag
Area
(km)
Capital Form of
GovernmentPopulation Currency
Western Asia:
Armenia 29,800 Yerevan
Azerbaijan 86,660 Baku
Bahrain 665 Manama
Cyprus 9,250 Nicosia
Georgia 69,700 Tbilisi
Iraq 437,072 Baghdad
Iran 1,648,195 Tehran
Israel 20,770 Jerusalem
Jordan 92,300 Amman
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHYName of region
andterritory,
with flag
Area(km)
Capital Form ofGovernment
Population Currency
Western Asia:
Kuwait 17,820 Kuwait City
Leban
on 10,452 Beirut
Oman 212,460 Muscat
Palestinian
territories6,257 Ramallah
Qatar 11,437 Doha
Saudi Arabia 1,960,582 Riyadh
Syria 185,180 Damascus
Turkey Ankara
United Arab
Emirates82,880 Abu Dhabi
Yemen 527,970 Sana
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
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 otherssuch as
the CIA include them inAsia. All are
included in Europeanorganizationssuch
as the Council ofEurope and are
considered to be European, and thus
eligible to join, by the European Union.
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Special Notes:
Indonesia isoften considered a transcontinental
country with territory in both Asia and Oceania
Russia is considered a transcontinental country with
territory in Eastern Europe and NorthernAsia;
population and area figures are for the entire state.
The islandofCyprus is locatedon the Anatolian
plate, but is a memberofEuropeanorganizations
such as the Council ofEurope and the EuropeanUnion. Armenia issimilarly locatedfully withinAsia,
but is a memberof the Council ofEurope.
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Special Notes:
Geography is the study ofthe physical featuresofthe earth. In its broadsense, it is a study of
the people, their environment and the
resources available to them.
Five themessum up the impact ofgeographyon history:
Location;
Place;
Human-environment interaction; Movement; and,
Region.
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POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
Assignment:
Explain how these five themes affect history?
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GEOGRAPHY
Five themessum up the impact ofgeography on
history:
Location. Tellswhere the place ison the
surface of the Earth by using: Exact location refers to the use of longitude
(measures the distance east orwest ofthe
prime meridian) and latitude (measures the
distance north orsouth of the equator); Relative locationwhere one place is located
in relation to another, issome times more
important than exact location
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Place in termsof: Physical featuresofa place include
landforms, bodiesofwater, climate,
soil, quality resources, plants and
animal life
Human characteristics include where
most people live, their economicactivities, religious beliefs and
languages.
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Human-environment interaction Since the dawnoftime people
have interactedwith their
environment they have shapedand beenshaped by the places
inwhich 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 ofpeople, goods
and ideas as a result ofmans
quest forstandardof living
Region
Geographersdivide the world into
many typesofregion basedon
physical, cultural, economic andpolitical features
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