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Asia is subdivided into 49 countries, five of them (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey) are transcontinental countries lying partly in Europe. Geographically, Russia is partly in Asia, but is considered a European nation , both culturally and politically.
In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United Nations; (ii) two states with substantial but not general international recognition, one of which is a United Nations General Assembly non-member observer state; (iii) four largely unrecognized de facto states; and (iv) six dependent and ...
Asia. Asia consists of 51 countries with a total land area of 45 million km² (17 million square miles), representing 30% of the Earth’s habitable surface. Asia's coastlines have a combined length of 224,089 km (139,272 miles). There are 4.74 billion people living in Asia — that's 59.7% of the world's population — and they account for ...
