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rainforest, which covers 30% of the South g Europe : It comprises 51 countries. It is the
America’s total area. most developed economically continent

g Antarctica : It is the coldest continent in with the European Union as the biggest
the world, completely covered with ice. economic and political union in the world.
There are no permanent inhabitants, except g Australia : It includes 14 countries. It is the
of scientists maintaining research stations in least populated continent after Antarctica,
Antarctica. only 0.2% of the total earth population live
here.
Asia

Severnaya Wrangel I Bering Strait
G R E E N L A N D Svalbard Zemlya Provideniya
New Siberian Is East Siberian Sea Gulf of Anadyr
Bolshevik I Ayon I Pevek G
Lyakhov Is Anadyr N
ICELAND
Ambarchik
I
R A
BARENTS
SEA E E
Tiksi Zhirkova B S
NORWEGIAN SEA
British Isles Khatanga Bulun Verkhoyansk Kolyma Gizhiga Karaginskiy I
OCEAN
ATLANTIC
UNITED Zyryanka Palana
NORWAY Noril'sk Kotuy Magadan Petropavolvsk-
KINGDOM Olenek Indigirka Shelekhoy Gulf Komandor I
N O R T H S W E D E N WHITE SEA Yenisey Zhigansk Lena Kamchatskiy
S E A FINLAND Okhotsk
A E Salekhard Tura Yakutsk S E A O F
FRANCE GERMANY B A L T I C N. Dvina R I A Aldan Shantar Is Sakhalin
S
O K H O T S K
Aldan
U
POLAND
BELARUS MOSCOW Yekaterinburg S S Bodaybo Skovorodino Komsomolsk Yuzhno-
Sakhalinsk
Tobol Tomsk Krasnoyarsk Bratsk Amar Khabarovsk
Ob
E U R O P E Chelyabinsk Angara L. Baikal Chita La Perouse Strait N
Volga Omsk Novosibirsk Blagoveshchensk Hokkaido A
ROMANIA
U K R A I N E Irkutsk Ulan Ude Qiqihar Sapporo
Ural' sk Ural Pavlodar Barnaul Vladivostok E
I T A L Y ADRIATIC SEA
Harbin Honshu
Choybalsan O F
Irtysh
Atyrau ASTANA Bulgan Sendai C
GREECE Semipalatinsk Changchun Jilin
KOREA J A P A N
Bosporus Uliastay ULAN BATOR S E A
Bursa K A Z A K H S T A N M O N G O L I A NORTH TOKYO O
B L A C K S E A
Izmir ANKARA GEORGIA Kyzyl-Orda Balkhash Hovd Saynshand Shenyang Yokohama
T U R K E Y CASPLAN ARAL SEA L. Balkhash PYONGY ANG Kyoto Nagoya Yokohama-Honoluta
Konya TBILISI Chu Urumqi Dalandzadgad BEIJING SEOUL Osaka
YEREV AN
AZERBAIJAN UZBEKISTAN Syr Darya Almatry Po Hai SOUTH Hiroshima
Cheju I Korea Strait
NICOSIA ARMENIA BISHKEK Hohhot
CYPRUS Aleppo TASHKENT Issyk Kul Hami Linhe Tianjin KOREA Shikoku
BEIRUT Mosul BAKU SEA TURKMENISTAN Amudarya KYRGYZSTAN S I N K I A N G YELLOW Pusan Fukuoka Bonin Is
LEBANON S Y R I A Tabriz ASHKHABAD Tarim Lop Nur Taiyuan Jinan Kyushu (JAPAN)
Tel Aviv-Yafo DAMASCUS Tigris Samarkhad TAJIKISTAN Kashi Yumen SEA
JERUSALEM AMMAN I R A Q Mashhad U I G H U R Koko- Xi'an Hwang-ho Shanghai
Nor
Nile ISRAEL JORDAN BAGHDAD TEHRAN DUSHANBE Qiemo Lanzhou Nanjing E A S T Volcano Is
(JAPAN)
I R A N Harirud KABUL Hotan C C H I N A C
E G Y P T Esfahan Herat ISLAMABAD H I N A Wuhan Hangzhou S E A
Basra AFGHANISTAN Yushu I
Kuphrates
KUW AIT Srinagar Chengdu Yangtze Nanchang
KUWAIT Kerman Lahore Rutog Qamdo F
Shiraz Kandahar Satluj Chongqing Changsha Fuzhou Hong Kong-Y okohama Shanghai Sydney I
Medina Zahedan Faisalabad T I B E T Lhasa Tsangpo TAIPEI
BAHRAIN AL MANAMAH
RIYADH PA K I S TA N DELHI Guiyang TAIWAN C
Jedda Indus NEPAL Guam
Mecca QATAR DOHA Lucknow BHUTAN Kunming Si Kiang Guangzhou A (USA)
ABU DHABI Jaipur KATHMANDU Brahmaputra Hong Kong Luzon Strait
S A U D I U A E Hyderabad Hong Xingvi Babuyan Is
S U D A N Basra-Karachi Karachi Ganga Patna BANGLADESH Nanning P
HANOI
A R A B I A MUSCAT Gulf of I N D I A Kolkata DHAKA Mandalay Salween Haiphong Gulf of Hainan I E A Luzon
OMAN Masira Kachchh Gandhinagar Narmada Chittagong MYANMAR T onking Paracel Is S Quezon City PHILIPPINES FED. STATES
Bhopal
NAYPYIDAW
MANILA
SAN'A Y E M E N Godavari Irrawaddy VIENTIANE A Mindoro Samar OF MICRONESIA
Aden Aden-Karachi Mumbai Hyderabad Mekong N Panay Cebu PALAU
A F R I C A
Aden-Mumbai Krishna Kolkata-Singapore THAILAND I Butuan
A R A B I A N B A Y O F Singapore-Hong Kong H Palawan Negros Mindanao
Socotra BANGKOK CAMBODIA C Zamboanga Davao
E T H I O P I A (YEMEN) S E A Bengaluru B E N G A L Mergui PHNOM PENH Singapore-Manila Sulu Sea
Chennai Archipelago Gulf of City Tapul Talaud Morotai
Basilan
Ho Chi Minh
Is
Jolo
Aden Colombo
S O M A L I A (INDIA) Lakshadweep Palk Strait Colombo-Y angan (INDIA) Thailand S O U T H BRUNEI SABAH Celebes Sea Sangihe Is Halmahera
Tawitawi
Aden-Mombasa SRI JAYEW ARDENEPURA Colombo-Singapor e Strait of Malacca KUALA LUMPUR Sula Is Misool
K E N Y A Cape Town-Mumbai Thiruvananthapuram SRI LANKA BANDAR SERI Manado
Zanzibar-Mumbai
BEGA W AN
MALE Medan Balikpapan Strait of Makasar Buru Ceram Kai Aru
Is
Is
MALDIVES Port Louis-Colombo Colombo-Jakarta Simeulue SINGAPORE B o r n e o Celebes I Tanimber Jakarta-Cape Y ork
Banyak Is
Aden-Fremantle
A r a f u r a S e a
TA N Z A N I A Nias Sumatra Bangka Banjarmasin O N E S B a n d a S e a Is
Batu Is
Belitung N D Makassar Wetar
Palembang I Alor DILI
VICTORIA Aden-Port Louis Colombo-Fr emantle Mentawai Is J a v a S e a
A Manila-Darwin
Bandar Flores Timor TIMOR-LESTE
Sunda Is
Lampung JAKART A Surabaya Bali AUSTRALIA
SEYCHELLES Amirante Is Timor Sea
J a v a Sumba
Bandung Sumbawa Roti
Asia is the largest continent of the world. In size, the globe it lies entirely in the Eastern
it forms a little less than one third of the earth’s Hemisphere and also in the Northern
total land area. In terms of its size of population, Hemisphere. There are only a couple of small
out of every five persons in the world three Asian islands in the Southern Hemisphere. On
persons live in Asia. In respect of its position on the west, Asia is separated from the European
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