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Location the Suez Canal forms the border between
them. Two narrow straits, the Bosphorus
Asia extends from 10°S to 80°N latitude and
and the Dardanelles, separate Anatolia from
from 25°E to 170°W longitude. Its north–
the Balkan Peninsula. Asia is separated from
south distance is 8,560 kilometres and it
Europe by the Ural Mountains, the Caspian
stretches for about 9,600 kilometres from
Sea, the Caucasus Mountains and the
east to west. Asia is bounded by the Arctic
Black Sea.
Ocean in the north, the Pacifi c Ocean in
the east, the Indian Ocean in the south, the Countries in Asia
Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea in the
Asia has 49 sovereign states, six states with
south-west and Europe in the west. Asia is limited international recognition and six
separated from North America in the north- dependent territories.
east by the Bering Strait and from Australia
in the south-east by the seas and straits Regional Divisions of Asia
connecting the Indian Ocean and Pacifi c Since the 18th century, it has been a common
Ocean. Th e Isthmus of Suez unites Asia practice in geography to divide Asia into
with Africa, and it is generally agreed that regions. A number of countries have been

EAST SIBERIAN SEA
ARCTIC OCEAN U.S.A.
Aleutian Isla nds

Russia SEA OF OKHOTSK

E U R O P E

Black Sea SEA OF
Kazakhstan Mongolia JAPAN
Aral North Korea Japan
Georgia Sea
Turkey South Korea
Cyprus Armenia Caspian Sea Uzbekistan
SEA
Lebanon Kyrgyzstan YELLOW
Syria Azerbaijan Turkmenistan
Israel Tajikistan P A CIFIC
EAST
Jordan Iraq China CHINA
SEA
Iran Afghanistan
Kuwait
OCEAN
Saudi Taiwan
Arabia Bahrain The Gulf Nepal
Qatar Pakistan Bhutan
U.A.E.
Bangladesh
Oman Myanmar Laos
Gulf of Oman
Yemen India
Thailand Vietnam SEA Philippines
Gulf of Aden ARABIAN
Socotra SEA BAY OF Cambodia CHINA
AFRICA BENGAL
SOUTH Brunei
Sri a
Lanka Malaysia s i
e
n
Singapore o
MALDIVES d
n East Timor
I
INDIAN OCEAN AUSTRALIA
A map showing the political divisions of Asia
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