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Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional ...
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia. Country / dependency
Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers. In the modern sense of the term "continent", Eurasia is more readily identifiable as a "continent", and Europe has occasionally been described as a subcontinent of Eurasia.
Rank Country (or dependent territory) July 1, 2015 projection [1] % of pop. Average relative annual growth (%) [2] Average absolute annual growth [3]Estimated doubling time
Arraiolos Group is an informal meeting of presidents of parliamentary and semi-presidential European Union member states. ASEAN: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organisation comprising ten Southeast Asian states; ASEAN+3: the ASEAN countries, plus China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [4]
The Orient is a term referring to the East in relation to Europe, ... generally considered "the Orient" as ... evokes images of China, Korea, Japan, ...
Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. [9] [10] Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus Strait. [11]