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

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Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Jainism is found mainly in India and in overseas Indian communities such as the United States and Malaysia.

The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road. Various Western powers dominated China in what later became known as the " century of humiliation", with the British-supported opium trade and later Opium Wars resulting in China being forced into an unprecedented situation of importing more than it exported. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. Asia is the birthplace of all the world’s major religions— Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism—and of many minor ones.In 2014, Kailash Satyarthi from India and Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". Geographic Regions" anklicken Zitat: "The assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories by the United Nations. In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; [115] it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively. Siberia is one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere, and can act as a source of arctic air masses for North America. Economic growth in Asia since World War II to the 1990s had been concentrated in Japan as well as the four regions of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore located in the Pacific Rim, known as the Asian tigers, which are now all considered developed economies, having amongst the highest GDP per capita in Asia.

Western European colonisation of Asia coincided with the Industrial Revolution in the West and the dethroning of India and China as the world's foremost economies. The story of the Great Flood for example, as presented to Jews in the Hebrew Bible in the narrative of Noah—and later to Christians in the Old Testament, and to Muslims in the Quran—is earliest found in Mesopotamian mythology, in the Enûma Eliš and Epic of Gilgamesh. 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. Over 80% of the populations of both India and Nepal adhere to Hinduism, alongside significant communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bali, Indonesia. The principal treatment of Asian historical and cultural development is contained in the articles on Asian countries, regions, and cities and in the articles Palestine, history of and Islamic world.

Covers the area north to Tajikistan and western China, south to Sri Lanka, west to Afghanistan, and east to Burma. Another Nobel Peace Prize winner is Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship in Burma. Saint Thomas Christians in India trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. S. copyright protection (see Title 17 of the United States Code) or any other restrictions in the Map Collection materials.

Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Singapore. Significant Christian communities also found in Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia.In 2006, Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the establishment of Grameen Bank, a community development bank that lends money to poor people, especially women. Based on Global Office Locations 2011, Asia dominated the office locations with 4 of the top 5 being in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul.

This makes Egypt a transcontinental country, with the Sinai peninsula in Asia and the remainder of the country in Africa. Ancient Chinese mythology also tells of a Great Flood spanning generations, one that required the combined efforts of emperors and divinities to control. Bang Sue Central Station will be, after completion in June 2021, the largest railway station in Southeast Asia. Of those, only Christianity developed primarily outside of Asia; it exerts little influence on the continent, though many Asian countries have Christian minorities. The main route leads from the Chinese coast south via Hanoi to Jakarta, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur through the Strait of Malacca via the Sri Lankan Colombo to the southern tip of India via Malé to East Africa Mombasa, from there to Djibouti, then through the Red Sea over the Suez Canal into Mediterranean, there via Haifa, Istanbul and Athens to the upper Adriatic to the northern Italian hub of Trieste with its rail connections to Central and Eastern Europe or further to Barcelona and around Spain and France to the European northern ports.A commonly accepted division places Asia to the east of the Suez Canal separating it from Africa; and to the east of the Turkish Straits, the Ural Mountains and Ural River, and to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black seas, separating it from Europe. Asia Locations: Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Aral Sea, Arctic Ocean, Banda Sea, Barents Sea, Bay of Bengal, Bering Sea, Caspian Sea, East China Sea, East Siberian Sea, Indian Ocean, Java Sea, Kara Sea, Lake Baikal, Lake Balkhash, Laptev Sea, Pacific Ocean, Philippine Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk and Yellow Sea.