Asia

Asia (the traditional continent/region of the world)

Population

3,879,000,000

Births

▶ Jesus, Muhammad, Joseph Stalin, Shahrukh Khan, Natalie Portman,  …

Freida Pinto, Genghis Khan, Manny Pacquiáo, Osama bin Laden, Aishwarya Rai, Saddam Hussein, Jackie Chan, Keanu Reeves, Mao Zedong, Paula Abdul, Salman Khan, Isla Fisher, Maria Ozawa, Gautama Buddha, Gene Simmons, Jackson Rathbone, Aamir Khan, Hayao Miyazaki, Akshay Kumar, Yao Ming, George Orwell, Jet Li, The Great Khali, Confucius, Amitabh Bachchan, Yoko Ono, Katrina Kaif, A. R. Rahman, Grigori Rasputin, Kristin Kreuk, Kareena Kapoor, Pythagoras, Sachin Tendulkar, Priyanka Chopra, Salman Rushdie, Bar Refaeli, Hrithik Roshan, BoA, Padma Lakshmi, David, Jay Chou, Vince Offer, Serj Tankian, Mika, Saladin, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Rudyard Kipling, Aylar Lie, Preity Zinta, Ayumi Hamasaki, M. Night Shyamalan, Indira Gandhi, Eddie Izzard, Abhishek Bachchan, Shahid Kapoor, Solomon, John Cho, Tim Tebow, Deepika Padukone, Gillian Chung, Cecilia Cheung, Anil Kapoor, Ali Khamenei, Pol Pot, Shilpa Shetty, Sunny Leone, Zhang Ziyi, Benazir Bhutto, Vivien Leigh, Kajol, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ruhollah Khomeini, Lakshmi Mittal, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Saif Ali Khan, Nick Drake, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Seung-Hui Cho, Joe Strummer, Ali, Joseph Vijay, Hu Jintao, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Rani Mukerji, Louis Theroux, John Abraham, Haruki Murakami, Rabindranath Tagore, Chiang Kai-shek, Yao Yecheng, Wladimir Klitschko, Arnel Pineda, Sora Aoi, St Georges Day, Saint George, Michelle Yeoh, Lolo Soetoro, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, Hirohito, Genelia D'Souza, Kim Il-sung, Stephen Chow, Miyamoto Musashi, Sirhan Sirhan, Apl.de.ap, Bipasha Basu, Cliff Richard, Tzipi Livni, Madhuri Dixit, Lou Diamond Phillips, Yul Brynner, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Mahatma Gandhi, José Rizal, Deng Xiaoping, Vanessa Minnillo, Annabel Chong, Aung San Suu Kyi, Akbar, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mukesh Ambani, Yui, Khalil Gibran, Ranbir Kapoor, Bai Ling, Vitali Klitschko, Ferdinand Marcos, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Bisping, Aki Hoshino, Pervez Musharraf, Deepak Chopra, Francis Magalona, Masi Oka, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Saravanan Sivakumar, Valerie Jarrett, Brooke Ashley, Andy Lau, Uday Hussein, Gong Li, Rajiv Gandhi, Chow Yun-Fat, Kamal Haasan, Rainie Yang, Karen O, Soon-Yi Previn, Trisha Krishnan, Daphne Rosen, Abdullah II of Jordan, Aristotle Onassis, Fareed Zakaria, Garry Kasparov, Anil Ambani, Thích Quảng Đức, Lindsay Price, Karisma Kapoor, Tia Tanaka, Ichiro Suzuki, Asif Ali Zardari, Olivia de Havilland, Ajay Devgan, Ban Ki-moon, Yip Man, Joanna Lumley, Thuy Trang, Lara Dutta, Herman Li, James Kyson Lee, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sun Yat-sen, Imran Khan, Kobe Tai, Wu Chun, Puyi, Sushmita Sen, Kaylani Lei, Akihito, Yitzhak Rabin, Akira Toriyama, Pete Best, Farhan Akhtar, Shu Qi, Hassanal Bolkiah, Daniel, William Hung, Ajith Kumar, Nicholas Tse, Masashi Kishimoto, Sunny Deol, Swami Vivekananda, Ashoka

Origin of

Sweetbox, cotton

Published

The Amazing Race Asia, MTV Asia Hitlist, SportsCenter Asia, Nokia Football Crazy

Location

Eurasia

Location of

▶ India; Japan; Israel; the Philippines; Pakistan;  …

Iran; Dubai; Turkey; Singapore; Georgia; China; the Cold War; North Korea; Vietnam; Indonesia; Thailand; Malaysia; Afghanistan; Hong Kong; South Korea; the United Arab Emirates; Sri Lanka; Saudi Arabia; Tokyo; Iraq; Bangladesh; Taiwan; Lebanon; the Gaza Strip; The Republic of Cyprus; Palestine, England; Kazakhstan; Cambodia; Armenia; Shanghai; Qatar; Jordan; Nepal; Mongolia; Maldives; Myanmar (Burma); Syria; Azerbaijan; Bahrain; Laos; Republic of China; Yemen; Macau; Bhutan; Kuwait; Brunei; Taipei 101; Mecca; Oman; Uzbekistan; Siberia; Jakarta; Kyrgyzstan; southeast Asia; Palau; Gaza; East Timor; Turkmenistan; Jericho; Tajikistan; the West Bank; Doha; Saigon; Damascus; Osaka; the Himalayas; South Asia; the Solomon Islands; Ankara; Baku; Kabul; Hanoi; Capcom; Riyadh; Central Asia; east Asia; Vladivostok; Bethlehem; Nanjing; Ur; Xi'an; the Federated States of Micronesia; Chongqing; Tianjin; Hangzhou; Astana; Chengdu; Phnom Penh; Yerevan; Indian subcontinent; Almaty; Harbin; Nicosia; Bombay Stock Exchange; Spratly Islands; Tashkent; Samarkand; Kandahar; Suzhou; Malacca; Yekaterinburg; Wuhan; Aleppo; Yangon; the Far East; the Cocos (Keeling) Islands; the British Indian Ocean Territory; the Elbrus; Yünnanfu; Shenyang; Hebron; National University of Singapore; University of Santo Tomas; Bishkek; Surabaya; Manama; Kashi; Ramallah; Buxoro; University of the Philippines; Kuching; Herat; Limassol; Fatehpur Sikri; Bursa; Ateneo de Manila University; Tyre; Bandar Seri Begawan; Dushanbe; Hed Kandi; Larnaca; Mandalay; Paphos; Chittagong; Jbail; A?gabat; Changsha; Fuzhou; Hashima Island; Ipoh; Batum; Ürümqi; Taichung; Nāblus; Shijiazhuang; Jinan; Mazari Sharif; Denpasar; Wuxi; Zhengzhou; Malay Peninsula; the Korean peninsula; Sanaa; North Asia; Sukhum; Swissôtel The Stamford; Poti; Latakia; Hohhot; Lanzhou; Donghai Bridge; Kuantan; Hoàng Sa; Nanning; Merv; Jambi; Haikou; De La Salle University-Manila; Wenzhou; San Beda College; Valenzuela City; Dunhuang; Nanchang; Port Comorão; Semarang; University of the Philippines, Diliman; Adamson University; University of the East; Ani; Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland; Taiyuan; Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila; Western Asia; University of Perpetual Help System DALTA; Pelabuhan Klang; Jenin; Kunshan; University of Mumbai; Colegio de San Juan de Letran; Varosha; Nine Years' War; Xining; subarctic; Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia

Broadcast Area of

Radio Exterior de España, U-Pop

Deaths

▶ Jesus, Bruce Lee, Muhammad, David Carradine, Saddam Hussein,  …

Mother Teresa, Mao Zedong, Gautama Buddha, Moses, Confucius, Nicholas II of Russia, Hannibal Barca, Idi Amin Dada, David, Ferdinand Magellan, Saladin, Constantine I, Mary Magdalene, Indira Gandhi, Solomon, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Adolf Eichmann, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Benazir Bhutto, Ruhollah Khomeini, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Vasco da Gama, Ali, Daniel Pearl, Chiang Kai-shek, Saint George, Lolo Soetoro, Hirohito, Kim Il-sung, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, José Rizal, Deng Xiaoping, Akbar, Arthur C. Clarke, Akira Kurosawa, Francis Magalona, Golda Meir, Uday Hussein, Rajiv Gandhi, Herod the Great, Yip Man, Sun Yat-sen, Puyi, Yitzhak Rabin, Oda Nobunaga, Ashoka, Yukio Mishima, Dhirubhai Ambani, Zheng He, Avicenna, Ngo Dinh Diem, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Emilio Aguinaldo, Hokusai, Isoroku Yamamoto, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Shah Jahan, Hideki Tojo, Corazon Aquino, Feroz Khan, Suzanne Tamim, Cao Cao, Bhagat Singh, Nick Berg, Kishore Kumar, Empress Dowager Cixi, Raj Kapoor, Aisha, Huo Yuanjia, Babur, Menachem Begin, Nathuram Godse, Hide, Leslie Cheung, David Ben-Gurion, Shigechiyo Izumi, Liu Bei, Aurangzeb, Jerome, Haji Mohammad Suharto, John the Apostle, Francis Xavier, Qusay Hussein, Sanjay Gandhi, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Historical Jesus, Solon, Thomas the Apostle, Teresa Teng, Marky Cielo, Satyajit Ray, Zhou Enlai, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Merton, Meher Baba, Abu Bakr, Origen, Origen, Benigno Aquino, Emperor Meiji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ofra Haza, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Michael P. Murphy, Divya Bharti, Sukarno, Zhou Yu, Sadako Sasaki, George Mallory, Saint Stephen, Jude the Apostle, Amrish Puri, Bahá'u'lláh, Madhubala, James the Just, Umar, Husayn ibn Ali, B. R. Ambedkar, Omar Khayyám, Charles Cornwallis, Francis Galton, Tenzing Norgay, Zhao Ziyang, Chandragupta Maurya, Moshe Dayan, Gul Mohammed, Mitsuharu Misawa, Michael A. Monsoor, Jiang Qing, M. G. Ramachandran, Guru Gobind Singh, Muhammad Iqbal, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Adi Shankara, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, Matthew the Evangelist, Mumtaz Mahal, Ramon Magsaysay, Yuan Shikai, Christiaan Barnard, Parveen Babi, Phoolan Devi, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Saparmurat Niyazov, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Rani Lakshmibai, Persis Khambatta, Julian the Apostate, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Nargis, Uesugi Kenshin, Diosdado Macapagal, Meena Kumari, Abel Tasman, Sarojini Naidu, Lydia Shum, Silk Smitha, Wu Zetian, Ramakrishna, Hu Yaobang, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Kangxi Emperor, Manuel Roxas, Martin Buber, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Smita Patil, Neda Agha-Soltan, Pliny the Younger, Sean Flynn, Sunil Dutt, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Zhang Fei, Khalid ibn al-Walid, David Sharp, Hafez al-Assad, Sri Aurobindo, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ramana Maharshi, Chance Phelps, Hemant Karkare, Jung Da Bin, Hafez, Qianlong Emperor, Henry Moseley, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, Hua Guofeng, Elpidio Quirino, Elpidio Quirino, Delara Darabi, Josiah

Overlaps

▶ Hindu Kush, Caucasus Mountains, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Caucasus, Mount Imeon,  …

Sulaiman Mountains, Jebel Akhdar, Al Hajar Mountains, Roof of the World, Baikal Mountains, Kopet Dag, Annamite Range, Anti-Lebanon, Greater Ranges, Toba Kakar Range, Pendadhaktylos Range, Hengduan Shan, Hamrin, Knuckles mountains, Assam Himalaya, Gurans Himal, Qandil Mountains, Mount Lebanon, Murovdag, Mount Kapaz, Pamir Mountains, Safēd Kōh, myagdi khola, Arma Mountains, Hakkoda, India, Japan, Russia, Israel, the Philippines, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Singapore, China, North Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Cambodia, Armenia, Nepal, Mongolia, Syria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Macau, Bhutan, Brunei, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, the Korean peninsula, Waktu Indonesia Bagian Tengah region, the Waktu Indonesia Bagian Barat region, West Kazakhstan Time region, East Kazakhstan Time region, Arabia Standard Time region, Indochina Time region

Borders

Europe, Arabian Peninsula

Residents

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Gautam Adani, Ramesh Chandra, Kunio Busujima, Lee Myung-Hee

Experts

Francis Clark Howell

The Area Served By

▶ Jet Airways; SEAT; Kenny Rogers Roasters; Avex Trax; Pony Canyon;  …

Stussy; Bank Melli Iran; Assicurazioni Generali; New Horizon Interactive; Perkins Engines Company Limited; Atradius; Grameen Foundation; China Motor Corporation; SecureWorks; Page One; Roots Canada; Dymocks Booksellers; RCTV International; ICONZ; Glen Raven, Inc.; Falck; PFSweb; Yupi; OpenIT; Traffic Group; Attivio; Comtrade group; Microcredit Summit Campaign; Endeca Technologies Inc.; One Dollar For Life; Homeless International; National Standard Finance; Disney Online Studios Canada; Goodman Group; Polymer Char; She's The First; She's the First; bonia; Bidvest Group Limited, The; DKT International; Sematext; Asian Development Bank Institute; Baker Perkins; ChildFund; MicroSave; IPGA; Classic International Cruises; Teleca; Malaria Consortium; One Way Sport; Penfield; Vilmorin; Bongotones.com; Atlas Service Corps

Class

continent, traditional continent, continent, geographical area

Separate From

the United Kingdom

Theme of

▶ The Good Earth; The Rape of Nanking; Lost Horizon; Wild Swans; The Nightingale;  …

A Single Shard; The Great Indian Novel; Anna and the King of Siam; Dark Watch; They Marched into Sunlight; Shabanu; Only the Heart; Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze; The Great Fire; Show Business; Asian Aphrodisiacs; The Great Gamble; The Jew accused; Bolsheviks and British Jews; The Great Game; Setting the East ablaze; Afghan wars, 1839-1992; The gates of November; The Jews of silence; Sir Moses Montefiore; Kojiki; I Ching or Book of Changes; Bound; Korean Tales; In ghostly Japan.; Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat; Dragon prince; Trail of Feathers; The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky

Larger Than

Africa

Wordnet Synset ID

"109207288"

Partly in

Russia

Often Found

▶ tiger, shark, wolverine, polar bear, cheetah,  …

leopard, raccoon, gray wolf, mango, Velociraptor, moose, Red Panda, Snow Leopard, Orangutan, reindeer, catfish, Valerian, barracuda, Mongoose, walrus, elk, Anise, weasel, jackal, otter, golden eagle, kumquat, Brown Bear, canine, Dugong, woolly mammoth, Osprey, Yak, Pear, aurochs, Blackbird, Marmot, Common Raven, Pangolin, Ibex, Red Fox, Raccoon Dog, Epimedium, Dilophosaurus, Civet, Asian Elephant, Asiatic Lion, Japanese beetle, stoat, gaur, Steller's Sea Cow, South China Tiger, Caspian Tiger, Brown Bear, wildcat, dromedary, Baiji, coypu, Marten, Rafflesia, Barn Swallow, Fin Whale, Leopard Cat, Red Deer, Sun Bear, Ratel, Binturong, Javan Rhinoceros, House Sparrow, Onager, Indian Peafowl, Common Pheasant, Asian Palm Civet, Lily of the Valley, Sloth Bear, Vinca, Rhesus Macaque, Eurasian Lynx, African Wildcat, Indian Rhinoceros, False Killer Whale, Kalanchoe, Hokkaido Wolf, European Robin, Philippine Tarsier, Wild Asian Water Buffalo, Hoopoe, Arabidopsis thaliana, European Magpie, carob tree, roborovski hamster, Amur Leopard, Fishing Cat, Japanese Macaque, black rat, Goshawk, Asiatic Cheetah, pilot whale, ground squirrel, Gyrfalcon, mouflon, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Common Buzzard, Jungle Cat, Blackbuck, Tarbosaurus, Microraptor, Asiatic Black Bear, Irrawaddy Dolphin, ramie, Bala shark, Markhor, Pteropus, nilgai, Ficus benjamina, Japanese Sea Lion, European Starling, Sumatran Orangutan, Siamang, Bornean Clouded Leopard, Bacopa monnieri, Père David's Deer, Bactrian Camel, Domestic buffalo, Oviraptor, Hibiscus syriacus, Chinese Mountain Cat, Fallow Deer, Rosa canina, Proboscis Monkey, Crab-eating Macaque, Hedera helix, Colugo, Ortolan Bunting, Pyracantha, Striped Hyena, Gallimimus, Asian long-horned beetle, Red Junglefowl, Epipremnum aureum, Golden Jackal, Black Rat, Laotian rock rat, Nepenthes rajah, Sika Deer, mustard green, Malayan Tapir, Civet, Herring Gull, Cotoneaster, White Stork, Pallas's Cat, Cattle Egret, Indian Wolf, Asian Golden Cat, Grass carp, Roe Deer, Therizinosaurus, tamaraw, Chital, Malayan Tiger, Indochinese Tiger, Takin, Banteng, Brygmophyseter, Ribes, Sambucus nigra, Cyprinidae, Paulownia tomentosa, Common Quail, Bornean Orangutan, Carrion Crow, Kiang, Syrian Wild Ass, Painted Lady, Mamenchisaurus, Attacus atlas, Chiffchaff, Tagetes, Achillobator, Choke pear, kestrel, Common Blackbird, European Goldfinch, Raja Brooke, Loach, desert locust, Least Weasel, Chevrotain, Steppe Polecat, Giant Hogweed, Common Fig, Green Peafowl, Arundo donax, Alexandrine Parakeet, Great Cormorant, Chinese White Dolphin, Corylus avellana, Grey Heron, Eurasian Wolf

Possible Languages

▶ Japanese, Hebrew, Urdu, Hindi, Tamil,  …

Korean, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, Malay, Bengali, Punjabi, Panjabi, Mandarin Chinese, Waddar, Manna-Dora, Telugu, Indonesian, spoken Thai, spoken Georgian, Aramaic language, Armenian, Malayalam, Marathi, Akkadian, Burmese, Holiya, Urali, Nepali, Tibetan, Sindhi, Sinhala, Uighur, Javanese, Kazakh, Cebuano, Lao, Syriac, Min Nan, Ossetian, Manchu, Avestan, Tulu, Tajik, Assamese, Oriya, Hittite, Kapampangan, Wu, Kashmiri, Turkmen, Hiligaynon, Kirghiz, Dhivehi, Bhojpuri, Hakka, Chavacano, Crimean Tatar, Maithili, Pangasinan, Jurchen, Standard Arabic, Brahui, Sundanese, Dzongkha, Tetum, Burushaski, Chagatai, Laz, Dari, Mansi, Yakut, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Nepal Bhasa, Tuvinian, Balinese, Gilaki, Kachchi, Seraiki, Bodo, Gulf Arabic, Bouyei, Bishnupriya, Santali, Chukot, Dungan, Japanese Sign Language, Mon, Saurashtra, Sylheti, Hlai, Northeastern Thai, Kara-Kalpak, Ket, Xiang, Manipuri, Hazaragi, Xibe, Balti, Dari, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic, Chinese Sign Language, Tausug, Haryanvi, Yagnobi, Talysh, Buginese, Gan, Mingrelian, Mandaic, Tboli, Kuy, Kumaoni, Macanese, Svan, Wakhi, Anal, Iu Mien, Sanglechi-Ishkashimi, Ivatan, Qashqa'i, Maranao, Urartian, Yevanic, Savi, Ushojo, Shina, Rohingya, Kinaray-A, Bukharic, Krymchak, Ladakhi, Urum, Malaccan Creole Portuguese, Khasi, Evenki, Shan, Turoyo, Achinese, Domari, Minangkabau, Khakas, Soqotri, Iban, Judeo-Persian, Chulym, Sherpa, Indian Sign Language, Ibanag, Sarikoli, Hui, Khalaj, Salar, Udi, Maguindanao, Badaga, Ao Naga, Korku, Khowar, Abkhazian, Madurese, Kok Borok, Awadhi, Dolgan, Braj, Limbu, Toda, Gojri, Yawi, Shughni, Magahi, Judeo-Berber, Angika, Judeo-Georgian, Chhattisgarhi, Karagas, Garo, Samaritan Aramaic, Samaritan, Bagri, Ainu (China), Bhili, Baharna Arabic, Yonaguni, Munji, Shor, Bats, Jingpho, Naxi, Atayal, Khorasani Turkish, Ili Turki, Mator, Koryak, Sentinel, Muong, Yaeyama, Israeli Sign Language, Bundeli, Mundari

Language

written Hindustani (Devanagari), written Telugu, written Turkish

Visited by

▶ Hannibal Barca, Ho Chi Minh, John Cabot, Democritus, Subhas Chandra Bose,  …

Jacky Cheung, Johnny Hallyday, Seleucus I Nicator, Kimon, Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, John William Yettaw, Niccolò Da Conti

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000004011"

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Asia

Studied by

Rasheed Wallace

Founded here

Lonely Planet

Things Running Through

Ob’

Freebase Primary MID

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