Asia 2
Asia, largest of the earth's seven continents. With outlying islands, it covers an estimated 44,936,000 sq km (17,350,000 sq mi), or about one-third of the world's total land area. Asia has more than 3.2 billion inhabitants. Its peoples account for three-fifths of the world's population.
Lying almost entirely in the northern hemisphere, Asia is bounded by the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. The conventional boundary between Europe and Asia is drawn at the Ural Mountains in Russia. Asia and Africa are separated by the Red Sea. Asia is divided for convenience into five major realms: the areas of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); East Asia, including China, Mongolia, ...
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a towering plateau region located where the borders of India, China, and Afghanistan converge. It is known as the Roof of the World. Mountain ranges spiral out from the Pamirs to the west (Hindu Kush), and southeast (Great Himalayas). These ranges form an imposing eastern-western arc, about 2500 km (about 1550 mi) in length, that contains numerous peaks of heights well more than 6100 m (20,000 ft), including the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. Other ranges extend east and northeast of the Pamirs (Karakorum, Kunlun, and Tien Shan). Between the Himalayan system and the Karakorum-Kunlun ranges lies the high Tibetan Plateau. Around this central core are arrayed four major plateau regions (Siberia, eastern China, southern India, and the Arabian Peninsula) and several major structural basins and river plains.
Several major rivers flow north to the Arctic Ocean, others drain into the great interior drainage basin of Asia. In the south, southeast, and east, rivers such as the ...
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language in Siberia. Islam dominates in Southwest Asia and Central Asia and is of major importance in South Asia and Indonesia. Hinduism is predominant in India. Buddhism extends through interior Asia and into Southeast Asia, China and Japan.
Patterns of Economic Development
Most of Asia is economically underdeveloped, but a number of important exceptions exist. Japan has successfully modernized its economy, as have Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore. The majority of the continent's population is employed in agriculture characterized by low yields and low labor productivity. Rice is the food-staple crop of the south and east, although wheat and other dry grains are also grown. In ...
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