Curated category
Regions of Asia
- Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia covers about 4,500,000 square kilometres, which is 9.80% of Asia and only 3% of Earth's total land area. Yet that compact stretch of land and…
- East AsiaEast Asia is home to around 33 percent of continental Asia's people and about 20 percent of everyone alive. Its overall population density runs to 133 people…
- Central AsiaCentral Asia sits at the geographic heart of the Eurasian continent, a region of five nations whose very names carry a Persian suffix meaning "land of."…
- South AsiaSouth Asia holds a quarter of every person alive on Earth. That single fact reshapes how you think about this wedge of land pressed between the Himalayas and…
- Middle EastThe Middle East sits at the intersection of Africa, Europe, and Asia, and the weight of that position is felt in almost every domain of human life.
- North AsiaNorth Asia covers 13,100,000 square kilometres, making it the largest subregion of Asia by area. That is 29.4% of Asia's entire landmass.
- MesopotamiaMesopotamia means the land between rivers, taken from the Greek words mesos for middle and potamos for river. The two rivers are the Tigris and the…
- LevantThe Levant is a region whose name means "rising." It comes from the Italian word levante, pointing to the place where the sun rises in the east.
- South CaucasusThe South Caucasus sits at a crossroads that has never been peaceful for long. Flanked by the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian Sea to the east, this…
- Near EastNear East is a phrase that once governed the foreign policy of empires, shaped the careers of diplomats, and defined a region stretching from the Eastern…
- Islamic worldThe Islamic world is home to more than 1.8 billion people, a community spanning nearly every continent and speaking hundreds of languages.
- East IndiesA 1606 map of the East Indies shows a vast expanse of islands and coastlines stretching from India to New Guinea. Portuguese explorers coined the term Indies…
- KashmirKashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, and for more than six decades it has been described as one of the most…
- AnatoliaAnatolia is a peninsula so central to human history that most of Europe carries its genetic fingerprint. About 9,000 years ago, farmers from this land began…
- Indian subcontinentThe Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia, a vast landmass that juts south from the Himalayas and pushes deep into the Indian Ocean.
- Palestine (region)Palestine sits at the meeting point of three continents, wedged between Egypt, Syria, and Arabia, and for at least five thousand years every empire that…
- BengalBengal stretches across the delta where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers meet the Bay of Bengal, and it carries within its soil the memory of…
- SiberiaSiberia covers over 13.1 million square kilometres, roughly three-quarters of Russia's total land area, and yet only about a quarter of Russia's population…