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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The BOJ raised rates from early 2024 at a steady, monotonous pace, designed not to rattle markets after years of deflation, the chief Asia economist says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The findings also add support to the theory that plague may have first emerged in Central or North-East Asia before spreading more widely across Eurasia through populations of wild rodents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

But then as I started looking at it, I did want to have Rasco and Planet Asia, because those are the first rappers that I worked with on the label.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Houthis have been cementing their hold on the Bab Al-Mandab strait, a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia that has been used as an alternative to Hormuz.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

When morning came what had been the proudest city in Asia was a fiery ruin.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton