Asia Political Map - Vinyl - A0 Size 84.1 x 118.9 cm

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It also has a mix of many different climates ranging from the equatorial south via the hot desert in the Middle East, temperate areas in the east and the continental centre to vast subarctic and polar areas in Siberia. Asia, Europe and Africa make up a single continuous landmass— Afro-Eurasia (except for the Suez Canal)—and share a common continental shelf. According to economic historian Angus Maddison, India had the world's largest economy during 0 BCE and 1000 BCE. NB: A number of supernational economies are larger, such as the European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or APEC).

Please visit the Middle East quiz to complete your knowledge of Asia, and pay close attention to the important notes there. The largest lakes are the Caspian Sea (salt lake) 371,000 km² (143 250 sq mi), and Ozero Baykal, or Lake Baikal (31,500 km²) in Siberia, is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume. The map shows the Indomalaya ecozone, one of the eight great ecozones (or biogeographic realms) that cover Earth's surface.You can then package up the stripped wall covering and recycle it through HP's Planet Partners Recycling Program. Made from real ayous wood, with a choice of white, black or teak stain finish (subject to availability). The capital city of Thailand is the nation's cultural and commercial center and a major transportation hub in Southeast Asia.

The coastal periphery was home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, each of them developing around fertile river valleys.Most of those units had coalesced as a continental landmass by about 160 million years ago, when the core of the Indian subcontinent broke off from Africa and began drifting northeastward to collide with the southern flank of Asia about 50 million to 40 million years ago. She is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma (Myanmar) and a noted prisoner of conscience. Confucianism is found predominantly in mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and in overseas Chinese populations. Siberia is one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere, and can act as a source of arctic air masses for North America.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's GDP by currency exchange rates was almost as large as that of the rest of Asia combined. is the only country on the "Top 10 Movers" list due to income rather than health or education achievements.

Also, Mother Teresa of India and Shirin Ebadi of Iran were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. In many Chinese communities, Taoism is easily syncretized with Mahayana Buddhism, thus exact religious statistics are difficult to obtain and may be understated or overstated. Buddhism has had a greater impact outside its birthplace in India and is prevalent in various forms in China, South Korea, Japan, the Southeast Asian countries, and Sri Lanka. The most convenient geographic boundary—one that has been adopted by most geographers—is a line that runs south from the Arctic Ocean along the Ural Mountains and then turns southwest along the Emba River to the northern shore of the Caspian Sea; west of the Caspian, the boundary follows the Kuma-Manych Depression to the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait of the Black Sea.