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Satellite view of Asia. Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprising 58 countries and territories. Geographical characteristics. Boundary. The area of Asia is not the sum of the areas of each of its regions, which have been defined independently of the whole.
This is a list of Asian countries and dependencies by population in Asia, total projected population from the United Nations and the latest official figure.
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Image: W. Mason Fuller. About Asia. The map shows the bulk of Asia without the Middle East. Asia is the largest of the world's continents, it constitutes nearly one-third of Earth 's landmass and is lying entirely north of the equator, except for some Southeast Asian islands.
Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia (with 4% of the country (108,996 km2) in Eastern Europe). With an area of about 2,724,900 square kilometers (1,052,100 sq mi) Kazakhstan is more than twice the combined size of the other four Central Asian states and 60% larger than Alaska .
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and with approximately 4.655 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population .
The continent of Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth's land area and has a population of around 4.75 billion (as of 2022), accounting for about 60% of the world population. The combined population of both China and India is estimated to be over 2.8 billion people as of 2022 [update] .
