Regions and Characteristics of Asia Continent !!!

Asia continent is the largest continent with an area of ± 43,998,920 km ² and is the densest population in the world with a territory covering 8.6% of the earth’s surface.
Astronomically, the continent of Asia lies between ± 15 ° E – 180 ° east longitude and ± 75 ° N – 11 ° S with boundaries as follows:

• the North bordering the Arctic Ocean (North Pole).
• the South bordering the Indian Ocean and the continent of Australia.
• the West with the European Continent and the Red Sea.
• East side is bordered by the Pacific Ocean.

Asia Regions
Asia continent is divided into several areas, namely:
1.  Central Asia
This area includes: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
2.  East Asia
This area includes

• Pacific Islands, Taiwan and Japan.
• North Korea and South Korea on the Korean peninsula.
• People’s Republic of China.

3.  Southeast Asia
This area includes the Malay Peninsula, Indochina and islands in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. The countries included in this region are:

• in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
• in the Islands of Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and Timor-Leste.

4.  South Asia
South Asia consists of:

• Himalayan countries: India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh
• Countries of the Indian Ocean: Sri Lanka and Maldives.
• The nickname for the Indian state is: Son of the Asian continent, Asia faces.

5.  West Asia
Often referred to as the “Middle East” although the term is also sometimes used to refer to countries in North Africa.
West Asia can be subdivided to:

• Countries in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
• Levant or Near East, including Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
• Arabian Peninsula, including Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Yemen and Kuwait as well sometimes.
• Regional Caucasus, including Azerbaijan and Armenia.
• Overlay of Iran, which consists of Iran and parts of other countries.

Characteristics of the Asian Continent
Asian continent has a characteristic or a characteristic that can distinguish it from other continents on the face of this earth. Here are some characteristics of the Asian Continent.

• Continent of Asia is the largest and most populated continent.
• On the continent of Asia there are countries that have the largest population in the world, like China, India, and Indonesia.
• On the continent of Asia are the country’s largest oil producers, particularly the countries of the Arabian Peninsula region.
• Asian continent is where emerging and growing major religions in the world, such as the religion of Islam in Saudi Arabia, Christianity and Catholicism in Jerusalem, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, and the religion of Confucianism in the PRC.
• On the continent of Asia there are many historical buildings, it can even be classified as the Seven Wonders of the World, namely the Great Wall in China, the Kaaba in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Taj Mahal in India, and Indonesia’s Borobudur temple.

1.  Central Asia

• The region is dominated by a string of mountains that extends to the northeast.
• Mountains consist of highlands, savannah, steppe and concatenated with the desert and Gobi desert, so the profile is relatively arid region

2.  East Asia

• The landscape consists of low plains, and there is a large river which empties into the east coast
• There is a plateau in the south east coast which is a connection from the highlands of Yunnan
• western China (Tibet) has high mountains of the Himalayas connection
• China’s Gobi desert north of there (overgrown steppe and savannah)
• In the Japanese archipelago, is dominated by a series of active volcano, in between his swift-flowing river flow (for hydropower)

3.  Southeast Asia

• Meeting young mountain sirkum Pacific and Mediterranean
• Many active volcanoes (Philippine and Indonesia)
• Many strands of inactivity mountainous
• A stretch of lowlands located in the flow path and large river deltas (Mekong River, Irrawadi River, Rivers added, and some rivers in Indonesia)

4.  South Asia

• Dominated by young Himalayan Mountains.
• There is a plateau Dean in the middle of the Indian peninsula, stretching the mountains of Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats
• In the central plains of Sri Lanka there
• Between the Himalayas and the highlands of Dean lying plains of the Ganges flow

5.  West Asia

• Consists of the plateau savanna-covered plateaus and steppe
• Deserts lie in Arab peninsula (Arabian desert and the Sinai Desert)
• In the region of Asia Minor (minor) is a high mountain with very varied relief
• On the sidelines of the mountains there are strands of large rivers and small rivers like the Euphrates and the Kizil River.

Population
Asian Population distinguished on several major races and ethnic groups, as follows.
1.  Kaukasut race (White Race)
Ras residents have in central Asia, West Asia, and in India (the tribes of Aryan / Hindu)
2. Negroid race (Black Race)
Ras residents have in phidelpia (Negrito), India (Dravidian), Eastern Indonesia (Papua), and Saudi Arabia (Nomad)