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Asia Minor: now modern republic of Turkey (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2010). The ancient
Roman province of “Asia” is nothing to do with the continent of Asia.
4.1.2 Geography of Asia
Asia is the central and eastern sub-part of Eurasia; Continent of Asia on the South is bounded by
the Indian Ocean, on the East by the Pacific Ocean, on the North by the Arctic Ocean and on the
West by Red sea and Suez Canal (Isthmus of Suez). Continent of Australia is to the southeast of
Asia, on the Northeast Bering Strait is dividing line between Asia and North America while on
the Northwest Asian continent has been separated from Europe by an imaginary line, which runs
through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus (Istanbul Strait), the Black Sea, the
Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River, the Ural Mountain range and this line ends
near Kara; the Kara Sea near, northern Russia.
4.1.3 What makes Asia
Asia consists of 48 independent political entities while according to UN cartography,
geographically this continent has been divided into five geographical areas (UNO, 2007) this
division is for the sake of simple understanding:
Asian continent and its sub-regions
Figure 3 (Asia and its sub-regions)
East Asia
Central Asia
West Asia
South Asia
South East Asia
North Asia
Source: Wikipedia, open sources