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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. [68]
The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.) ... Africa / Asia: ... Asia: China / Japan / South Korea / Taiwan:
This is a list of continental landmasses, continents, and continental subregions by population. For statistical convenience, the population of continental landmasses also include the population of their associated islands .
Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum, forests, fish, water, rice, copper and silver. Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, South
China, [i] officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), [j] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India , representing 17.4% of the world population.
China contains five autonomous regions, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, and Xinjiang. [l] Additionally, it has sovereignty over the Special Administrative Regions of: Hong Kong Macau; China claims, but does not control Taiwan, which is governed by a rival administration (the Republic of China) that claims all of China as its territory. [q]
The four continents, plus Australia, added later.. Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. [1] Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, and Europe in the north.
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 4.655 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population .