Afghanistan

Asia

Asia has been traditionally described as the lands of the east surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and to its west is Europe, as well as part of Russia’s east of the Ural Mountains and the Middle East from Saudi Arabia north to Turkey.

Historical, political, and culturally, Russia is normally consider to be part of Europe. The countries west of Asia have come to be considered different part from Asia. Base on that, the countries from west of Iran to the Mediterranean Sea are considered as Middle East and Africa. In this section, Asia will be discussed in the area of south Russia and east of Iran to the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Asia population in 1990’s was estimated to be almost 2.9 billion, or about 55 percent of the entire world’s total population at that time. The area of [... continue reading]