Short answers, pulled from the story.
The six geographic sub-regions of Asia are Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia. Each is characterized by perceivable commonalities in culture, religion, language, and relative ethnic homogeneity.
Asia is the birthplace of Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism, among others. Islam and Hinduism are the largest religions in Asia, each with approximately 1.1 billion adherents. Over 60% of the global Muslim population lives in Asia.
Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from India, became the first Asian Nobel laureate in literature in 1913. He also wrote Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of India, and Amar Sonar Bangla, the national anthem of Bangladesh.
Over 600 languages are spoken in Indonesia and over 100 are spoken in the Philippines. The 2001 census of India recorded 30 languages spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 languages spoken by more than 10,000 people.
The 2019 Korean film Parasite was the first Asian film to win an Academy Award. Korean films, dramas, and music known as K-pop have grown significantly with support from the Korean government.
The first known traces of martial arts in Asia date from the Xia dynasty of ancient China, over 4,000 years ago. Karate, which originated in Okinawa, has 50 million practitioners worldwide today.