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2 giorni fa · Asia, the world’s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface of Earth, has the longest coastline of any continent, and is subject overall to the world’s widest climatic extremes.
17 ore fa · Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eurasia with Europe being a northwestern peninsula of the landmass. Asia, Europe and Africa make up a single continuous landmass—Afro-Eurasia (except for the Suez Canal)—and share a common continental shelf.
2 giorni fa · Secondo alcune fonti, l'Australia e la Nuova Zelanda sono riunite sotto il termine di Australasia, che però ha anche altre accezioni: l'insieme delle isole comprese fra l'Asia e l'Australia (dunque anche l'Indonesia), oppure, secondo l'uso inglese, Nuova Guinea, Australia, Nuova Zelanda e isole minori, o ancora, sempre secondo un uso francese e inglese più datato, l'insieme di isole della ...
5 giorni fa · East Asia, region of Asia consisting of Japan, North and South Korea, China, Mongolia, and Taiwan. An old term for the region is the Far East, a name that arose among Europeans, who considered this region in the continent to their east to be “far” from Europe in terms of traveling time.
3 giorni fa · Geography. Central Asia’s landscape can be divided into the vast grassy steppes of Kazakhstan in the north and the Aral Sea drainage basin in the south. About 60 percent of the region consists of desert land, the principal deserts being the Karakum, occupying most of Turkmenistan, and the Kyzylkum, covering much of western Uzbekistan.
2 giorni fa · Geography. Economy. Energy. Demographics. Culture. See also. Notes. References. Further reading. External links. Southeast Asia [a] is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and north-west of mainland Australia which is part of Oceania. [5] .
2 giorni fa · East Asia is a region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macau, two coastal cities located in the south of China, are autonomous regions under Chinese sovereignty.
