- Asia is known to be the world's largest continent, and the most populous continent too.
- This continent alone covers about 8.6% of the total land area of the total surface area of the Earth. It has a population of about 4 billion people, and world's 2 most populous countries China and India are also a part of Asia.
- This continent contains 60% of the total human population in the world.
- It is considered to be in the North Eastern hemisphere, and is a part of land of Africa-Eurasia. Asia was considered as a continent first by Medieval Europeans, and was seperated from Africa by Isthmus of Seuz and the Red Sea. Between the Europe and Asia, there are many seas and mountains running.
- A few geographers still believe that Asia and Europe are not seperate continents, as there is no physical seperation between them. And the land of Middle East is still in talks and confusion, as many still dont exactly know to which continent it belongs to.
- Economy of Asia: Asia has the 3rd highest Gross Domestic product, after USA and Europe. In Asia, India is one of the fastest economical growing country. Japan has the largest economy in the Asia, and the 2nd largest economy in the whole world. Once Japan's economy became highest equalling that of the USA, but again reachd 2nd going down, and now is holding the same position.
- Asia is rich is natural resources such as Petroleum, Forestry products etc. The 3 main financial centers in Asia are Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo. India and the Philippines holds the highest number of people working in the Call centers. Due to its large and extremely competitive information technology industry, India has become a major hub for outsourcing.
- There are several languages used in Asia. Only in Indonesia, there are more than 600 languages spoken, and in India, about 415 languages are spoken. Only in Korea, a single language is spoken. There are many religions in Asia.
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