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    The document outlines the various subregions of Asia, including Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Southeastern Asia, and Western Asia. It provides a list of countries for each subregion. Additionally, it discusses how Asia is considered a single continent separated into East and West portions by the Ural Mountains, though there is no true physical separation between Asia and Europe.

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    Subregions of Asia

    Central Asia

     Kazakhstan
     Kyrgyzstan
     Tajikistan
     Turkmenistan
     Uzbekistan
    Eastern Asia

     China - the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan)


     Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
     Macao Special Administrative Region of China
     Japan
     Mongolia
     North Korea
     South Korea
    Southern Asia

     Afghanistan
     Bangladesh
     Bhutan
     India
     Iran
     Maldives
     Nepal
     Pakistan
     Sri Lanka
     Southeastern Asia

     Brunei Darussalam
     Cambodia
     Indonesia
     Lao People's Democratic Republic
     Malaysia
     Myanmar
     Philippines
     Singapore
     Thailand
     Timor-Leste
     Vietnam
    Western Asia

     Armenia
     Azerbaijan
     Bahrain
     Cyprus
     Georgia
     Iraq
     Israel
     Jordan
     Kuwait
     Lebanon
     Oman
     Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
     Qatar
     Saudi Arabia
     Syrian Arab Republic
     Turkey
     United Arab Emirates
     Yemen

    The largest of the world's continents. With its peninsular extension, commonly called the
    continent of Europe, it is the major portion of the broad east-west extent of the Northern
    Hemisphere land masses. In many ways Asia is more a cultural concept than a physical entity.
    There is no logical physical separation between Asia and Europe, and even Africa is separated
    from Asia merely by the width of the Suez Canal. For convenience, however, the Eurasian land
    mass is considered to be divided by the Ural Mountains into Europe in the west and Asia in the
    east. Thus restricted, Asia has an area of about 17,700,000 mi 2 (45,800,000 km2), about one-
    third of the land area of the Earth. In the north, Siberia reaches past the 80th latitude.
    Southward, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) reach nearer than 10°N of the Equator, while the
    Indonesian islands extend more than 10°S of the Equator. The continental heart of Asia is
    more than 2000 mi (3200 km) from the nearest ocean. See also Continent; Europe.
    The answer is to be found in the vision of the world of the Europeans through history. As the
    Catholic and Orthodox churches separated, two spheres of influence originated on each side of
    the Bosporus. One was the occidental part, controlled by Rome and the Pope, and the other was
    the oriental one, controlled by Constantinople. When the orient became mostly Muslim, it was
    even a greater reason to divide the Eurasian continent in two parts.

    Note that during the middle-age most maps were drawn with the orient up. Probably because the
    sun rises at the east. This is why we still use the word: orientation; coming from the orient as
    being the reference. Later, and mostly due to the seafarers that used the northern star as a
    reference in navigation, the north became the up side of the maps.

    If the Ural mountains made, later, the division between orient and occident, it is most certainly
    because they make a natural barrier of a mountain range.
    Europe and Asia aren't on the same tectonic plate. As Asia is a raft composed of dozens of
    different tectonic plates, not even all of Asia shares the same tectonic plate. The Ural Mountains
    marks the border where the two continents collided with each other to, temporarilly, form a single
    landmass. With only two exceptions, most the continents of the world happen to be joined by land
    to other continents.

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