Discover Asia
Discover countries of Asia and learn basic facts about:
South-East Asia: →
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- East Timor
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Korea North
- Korea South
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
North-West Asia: →
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbajian
- Georgia
- Kazakstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Mongolia
- Pakistan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Generally speaking:
- Asia and Europe are geologically the single continent often called Eurasia.
- Asia is world’s largest continent with around 65% of world’s population. China and India are two countries with population over 1 billion people.
- In Asia is located world’s highest mountain. Mont Everest (Nepal) is the world’s highest mountain with measurements showing height as much as 8 850 meters (29 035 ft). Tallest mountain in the Solar System presently know to human is on the planet Mars. Mountain Olympus Mons is approximately 27 km (88 582ft) high.
