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World_location_map.svg derivative work: 배우는사람 ( talk ) This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.
South West Asia location map.svg Module:Location map/data/Asia Southwest is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Southwest Asia . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Russia, or "the Russian Federation," is a nation of Europe. The "Northern Asia" name is unofficially recognized; for example, the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names includes an Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia Division. "Northern Asia" comes from traditional usage, which divides Europe from Asia at the Ural Mountains.
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.
West Asia (also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia) is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia , the Arabian Peninsula , Iran , Mesopotamia , the Armenian highlands , the Levant , the island of Cyprus , the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus .
Name used in the default map caption; image = South Asia non political, with rivers.jpg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 40.06 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 4.6 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 59.8 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 98.3 ...
Blue = Central Asia; Yellow = East Asia (China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan) Brown = West Asia/Middle East; Green = South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan) Red = South East Asia (10 ASEAN countries + East Timor) Date: 5 May 2007 (original upload date) Source: Own work based on the blank world map: Author
Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries.