Asia is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the East by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the Indian Ocean, and to the West by Europe and the Mediterranean.
Asia includes some of the world’s richest and developed economies like Japan and Korea but is also home to some of the world’s poorest nations. Asia has the highest point in Earth, the Mount Everest in the Himalayas, as well as the lowest place on land, the Dead Sea. Asia also experiences the wildest extremes of weather and climate.
Asia also has the widest variety of plant and animal life; from tropical rainforests to desert scrubland; from the world’s largest reptile, the Komodo Dragon of Indonesia, to the shy and elusive Snow Leopard in the high reaches of the Himalayas.
Asia is not only the biggest continent, and the one with the most people. It is also the most diverse. Asia has some of the highest mountains, the longest rivers, the largest deserts and the thickest forests. The highest place on the earth – Mount Everest – is in Asia. So is the lowest, the Dead Sea!
Asia’s 47 independent nations include some of the world’s biggest nations, and the smallest. The most populated country in the world, China, is the Asia. At the same time, there are vast areas that are uninhabited. There are hot deserts and cold deserts, rugged mountains and fertile river valleys, lush coastal plains and steamy deltas. In fact, Asia is so enormous that it includes all three of the world’s climatic zones: the Arctic, Temperate and Torrid Zones.
