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 AI revolution has promised to reshape the way we work and live and has created vast wealth for investors in a handful of companies predominantly in the US and Asia.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Now some markets are seeing a surge in imports of electric vehicles and solar panels since the war began, especially in Southeast Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

That in turn chokes off Saudi oil exports to Asia.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The rest of Asia was also mostly down.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

Australia will colonize the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson