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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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Maps of the history of the Middle East (1 C, 2 P) R. Maps of the Roman Empire (1 C) Pages in category "Maps of the history of ...
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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.
This is a list of articles giving brief summaries of each country in Asia. The transcontinental countries situated in both Asia and Europe are also shown. Outline of Abkhazia [ 1 ]
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.
The Topkapı Palace where the map was discovered, viewed from the Bosporus. Much of Piri Reis's biography is known only from his cartographic works, including his two world maps and the Kitab-ı Bahriye (Book of Maritime Matters) [6] completed in 1521. [7]