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Asia Definition

Asia (ā′z̸hə; chiefly Brit, -s̸hə)

largest continent, situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, bounded by the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, and separated from N Europe by the Ural Mountains: it includes, in addition to the nations on the land mass, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, & Indonesia: c. 17,400,000 sq mi (45,066,000 sq km); pop. c. 3,451,000,000

Etymology: L < Gr < ? Akkadian āṣū, to rise (of the sun), go out

Asia Synonyms

Asia

n.

the Orient, the East, the mysterious East*.

Countries and regions of Asia include --- Far East: China, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Siberia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Kampuchea, Thailand, Burma, Myanmar, Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia; Near and Middle East: Turkey, Georgia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.

Asia Quotes

The dusty catastrophe of Asia.Green only on the banner of the Prophet. Nothing grows here except mustaches.

—Brodsky, Ioseph

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

—Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl

Holla, ye pampered Jades of Asia; What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day?

—Marlowe, Christopher

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand.

—Barker, George Granville

   We declared war on America and Britain out of Our sincere desire to ensure Japan's self-preservation and the stabilisation of East Asia.

—Hirohito