Asia is the largest and most populous continent or region, depending on the definition. It covers 8.7 percent of the Earth's total surface area, or 29.8 percent of its land area, and it contains more than 60 percent of the world's human population.

Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.

Etymology

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The word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ασία (Asia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled as to why three different women's names are used to describe a single land mass (Europa, Asia and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis.

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@arzE is Contra release on Asia too?
ratnaasih (Ratna Setyaningrum) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:00:22 -0000
@arzE is Contra release on Asia too?
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admtan (あどみにたん) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:59:33 -0000
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Barack_On_Blast (Onyx Powers) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:58:59 -0000
Memo To G77- You May Have To Nationalize Foriegn Mining Firms,& Expel Ambassadors,To Get Serious Climate Change Terms #cop15 #africa #asia
@MarkusFeehily btw I really wanna ask u this so please answer me ;) sorry if I'm bugging u,will Asia have the chance 2 see u again this yr?
ificheallaigh ([R] a i N e = ]) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:58:51 -0000
@MarkusFeehily btw I really wanna ask u this so please answer me ;) sorry if I'm bugging u,will Asia have the chance 2 see u again this yr?
@girloyourdreams was on the dance floor with Asia & Anna. :) we barely decided where we were going in time for the countdown! but we made it
missvalleykat (missvalleykat) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:57:47 -0000
@girloyourdreams was on the dance floor with Asia & Anna. :) we barely decided where we were going in time for the countdown! but we made it
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swatcrisis (Swat Crisis) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:57:29 -0000
#swat My Asia Bonn: "Violons Barbares": Bulgarian - Mongolian - Wild World http://bit.ly/7mCGU6

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