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Asia is the largest and most populous continent or region, depending on the definition. It covers 8.7 percent of the Earth's total surface area, or 29.8 percent of its land area, and it contains more than 60 percent of the world's human population.
Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
Etymology
The word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ασία (Asia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled as to why three different women's names are used to describe a single land mass (Europa, Asia and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis. More on [ Asia ]
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Saya setuju! RT @sidarta_s: @_samsul dari analisa banyak ahli, Indonesia diprediksi akan jadi emerging market terbesar di Asia RE: Indonesia
_samsul (渡éè£æ) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:30:11 -0000
Saya setuju! RT @sidarta_s: @_samsul dari analisa banyak ahli, Indonesia diprediksi akan jadi emerging market terbesar di Asia RE: Indonesia
@drvr8 lol true. its like hey you're from east asia, you're all the same! same goes for southwest asia
obsessive_much (K Squared) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:28:35 -0000
@drvr8 lol true. its like hey you're from east asia, you're all the same! same goes for southwest asia
Business Week Asia: Black Swans Abound as Year of Tiger Shows Teeth: William Pesek http://bit.ly/6DY2Ai
GBPIntl (GBP International) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:28:33 -0000
Business Week Asia: Black Swans Abound as Year of Tiger Shows Teeth: William Pesek http://bit.ly/6DY2Ai
"Bangkok - City of Angels ??": http://tinyurl.com/npjaag thai thailand asia #travel #blog #tips
ChiangMai12 (Jordan Butters) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:27:27 -0000
"Bangkok - City of Angels ??": http://tinyurl.com/npjaag thai thailand asia #travel #blog #tips
En Asia arreglando el Banzai sushi
HajimeKasuga (Hajime Kasuga) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:26:26 -0000
En Asia arreglando el Banzai sushi
Invesco Eyes Asia: Investment strategist sees emerging markets in Asia ex-Japan as engines of long-term growth. http://bit.ly/7GJWqX
financialworld (financial world) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:26:24 -0000
Invesco Eyes Asia: Investment strategist sees emerging markets in Asia ex-Japan as engines of long-term growth. http://bit.ly/7GJWqX
Asian Highway Network - Network designed by the United Nations. Site includes history, maps, and photography.
Meta Description: [ Economic and social development in Asia and the Pacific ]
Asian Roads - Details and photos from a 2001 trip.
Intertoll - Maintains toll roads in Asia and Africa.
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Korea Highway Corporation - Deals with construction, repair and maintenance, toll collection, development of areas by expressways, and related information. Includes details about a revised route numbering system.
Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited - Covers metropolitan Tokyo, Japan. Site includes toll information and service area facility information.
National Highways Authority of India - Official site. Includes news, maps, and road network information.
Tarmat Infrastructural and Engineering Ltd - Road builder in India.
Utilities - Maps of India - Information about India's national highways.
Meta Description: [ Information on India, General Information on India, Miscellaneous Information, Maps of India, Air Schedule, Census Maps, STD Search, Distance Chart, Distance Search, Rail Schedule, Utilities, Maps of India, City Distance Search Engine to find distance between two cities, National Highways Search ... ]
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