Asia

[ey-zhuh, ey-shuh]

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).

Asia

/ 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)

Asia

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

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.

Example Sentences

Increased oil exports to Asia would reduce Canada's economic dependence on an unreliable United States, he said.

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In Europe, eurozone inflation data will attract investors’ attention, while Asia sees a slate of growth and inflation data, alongside regional purchasing managers’ surveys.

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Village Lighting Co., which has 11 full-time employees and five seasonal ones, makes its products in China and elsewhere in Asia.

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Japan will benefit from reforms, and the rest of Asia from strong chip demand, a weak U.S. dollar and growing intraregional trade, he adds.

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Researchers from the UK, the United States, Australia and Asia participated in the project.

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