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This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
The length of each border is included, as is the total length of each country's or territory's borders. [1] Countries or territories that are connected only by man-made structures such as bridges, causeways or tunnels are not considered to have land borders. However, borders along lakes, rivers, and other internal waters are considered land ...
Country Neighbour Border length Notes km mi Brunei Malaysia: 381 237 Borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Dominican Republic Haiti: 360 220 On the island of Hispaniola The Gambia Senegal: 740 460 The Republic of the Gambia is bordered to the north, south and east by Senegal. Haiti Dominican Republic: 360 220
File:Blank Asia.png: Map of Asia without national borders Asia98.svg : national primary level divisions as of 1998 Location Map Asia.svg : Gray location map of Asia based off national borders as of 2009
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.
Below is a list of countries in Asia by area. [1] Russia is the largest country in Asia and the world, even after excluding its European portion. The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia.
In the north, the border between Asia and Europe is a meridian through the mouth of the Don River northward "to the unknown region." [13] Asia Minor remains "Asia properly so called." [14] Ptolemy's Asia extends to the Far East, approximately identical to today's Asia, except that the European border runs through the future location of Moscow ...
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.