Big and complex, Asia is the largest and most populous continent on Earth. Since classical Antiquity, it has been considered a landmass different from Europe and Africa (then known as Libya), although Europe and Asia are actually part of a single landmass called Eurasia. Asia occupies about one-third of the land surface of the Planet and it includes Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world.

The Asian continent has 55 countries and is home to hundreds of languages, including some of the most spoken in the world, such as Mandarin, Hindi and Arabic.

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Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Brunei Bhutan Cambodia China East Timor Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Kuwait Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives

Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan U. Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

Fisherman in the Li River, near Guilin, China. A magnificent landscape, an outcrop of towers in the subtropical region of Guangxi.

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This image from NASA (Arabian Sea on November 23, 2018) shows that the ocean is more than just a hue of blue. It runs a gamut of greens to grays and everything in between. The range of ocean colors represents various types of activity occurring in the waters, like different kinds of sediment, from a variety of soils and organic debris.