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Slightly light colour to see the word "RUSSIA" correctly. 09:51, 16 March 2021: 2,738 × 2,240 (2 MB) Sbb1413: Re-altered the colour since the Asian Russia is mentioned in the article. 09:28, 16 March 2021: 2,738 × 2,240 (2 MB) Sbb1413: Altered the colour of Russia to show that it is not part of Caucasus (purple), yet it is part of Asia.
Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png – Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia. Image:BlankMap-Europe-v4.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png , but with borders shown
In medieval T and O maps, Asia makes for half the world's landmass, with Africa and Europe accounting for a quarter each. With the High Middle Ages, Southwest and Central Asia receive better resolution in Muslim geography, and the 11th century map by Mahmud al-Kashgari is the first world map drawn from a Central Asian point of view.
English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 95, 40, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Asia is highlighted in red.
Asia (/ ˈ eɪ ʒ ə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈ eɪ ʃ ə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
The Bering Strait and Bering Sea separate the landmasses of Asia and North America, as well as forming the international boundary between Russia and the United States. This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait, with Big Diomede in Russia and Little Diomede in the U.S.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.