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Hunted Facts on asia
- Asia (Reference Map) 2004 (419K) and pdf format (423K)
- Asia (Reference Map) 1999 (230K) and pdf format (652K) and larger jpeg (336K)
- Southeast Asia (Reference Map) 1999 (258K) Larger JPEG Image (493K)
- Most geographers regard Asia as bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Bering Strait and the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the southwest by the Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
- On the west, the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia is drawn at the Ural Mountains, continuing south along the Ural River to the Caspian Sea, then west along the Caucasus Mountains to the Black Sea.
- Asia is bounded on three sides by oceans: the Arctic to the north, the Pacific to the east, and the Indian to the south.
- Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
- The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea.
- Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum and iron.
- Asia is the largest of the continents, having a geographic area of about 17,000,000 square miles, or about one-third of the whole of the dry land.
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