Asia

American  

[ey-zhuh, ey-shuh] / ˈeɪ ʒə, ˈeɪ ʃə /

noun

1. a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. About 16,000,000 square miles (41,440,000 square kilometers).

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Asia British  

/ ˈeɪʒə, ˈeɪʃə /

noun

1. the largest of the continents, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the large peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka); contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran, and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris, and Euphrates. Pop: 3 917 508 000 (2005 est). Area: 44 391 162 sq km (17 139 445 sq miles)

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Asia Cultural  

1. World's largest continent, joined to Europe to the west, forming Eurasia.

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Site of some of the world's earliest civilizations.

With three-fifths of the world's population, Asia has some of the world's greatest population densities.

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So there must be a candidate who can attract the support of those countries in Concacaf, Africa and Asia who could have been loyal to Infantino but could be persuaded to switch their votes.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Federations in Asia, North America, and the Caribbean all expressed deep concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The method also successfully identified known Denisovan DNA when the team focused on genomes from Asia and Oceania, where some populations carry substantial Denisovan ancestry.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Uefa has 55 votes, Concacaf has 35 and Asia has 46.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

There were still no humans in Australia, for the obvious reason that it would have taken boats to get there from Southeast Asia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond