Asia
Part of terrestrial continent, mainly in the northeastern quadrant
Also known as Asian continent · Continental Asia
- Area
- 44.6M km²
- Population
- 4.98B(2025)
1
Sources- 1.“Asia Population 2025”worldpopulationreview.com/continents/asiaRetrieved 2025-08-05
- , 4.16B(2011)
- , 947M(1900)
- +3 more
- 4.98B(2025)
- Located in/on physical feature
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
316 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Number of out-of-school children
- 143M(2015)
- 144M(2014)
- 147M(2013)
- 151M(2012)
- 159M(2011)
- 166M(2010)
- 175M(2009)
- 178M(2008)
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- 185M(2007)
- 202M(2006)
- 209M(2005)
- 210M(2004)
- 217M(2003)
- 231M(2002)
- 240M(2001)
- 241M(2000)
- 244M(1999)
- Time zone
- Nepal Standard Time
- Sri Lanka Standard Time
- Philippine Standard Time
- Magadan Time
- Armenia Time
- Hong Kong Time
- Indian Standard Time
- Vladivostok Time
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- Korea Standard Time
- Japan Standard Time
- Asia/Thimphu
- UTC+06:00
- time in China
- Eastern European Time
- Yekaterinburg Time
- Irkutsk Time
- Yakutsk Time
- Azerbaijan Time
- Israel Standard Time
- Iran Standard Time Zone
- Krasnoyarsk Time
- Taiwan time
- Indonesia Western Standard Time
- Indonesia Central Standard Time
- Time in Malaysia
- Pakistan Standard Time
- Bangladesh Standard Time
- Singapore Standard Time
- Demonym
- Aziaat
- ázsiai
- Asian
- asiatisch
- Asiatique applies to part: male, female
- asiatico applies to part: masculine singular
- asiatica applies to part: feminine singular
- asiatici applies to part: masculine plural
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- asiatiche applies to part: feminine plural
- asiáticu applies to part: masculine singular
- asiática applies to part: feminine singular
- asiáticos applies to part: masculine plural
- asiátiques applies to part: feminine plural
- азиаты applies to part: masculine plural
- Aziano
- एशियाई
- آسيوي applies to part: masculine singular
- Áiseach
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- Geoshape
- Data:Asia Flickr.map
- Lowest point
- Dead Sea elevation: -441.5 m
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Sources- 1.data.gov.il/he/datasets/water_authority/https-www-data-gov-il-dataset-683Retrieved 2026-10-04
- Dead Sea elevation: -441.5 m
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 11.0076°S, 122.8748°E statement is subject of: Indonesia
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 66.0800°N, 169.6500°W statement is subject of: Russia · located in/on physical feature: Cape Dezhnyov
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 81.8431°N, 59.2394°E statement is subject of: Russia · located in/on physical feature: Cape Fligely
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 40.1250°N, 25.6655°E statement is subject of: Turkey
On other databases
173 identifiers linking Asia across the web's reference databases
- ABC News topic IDasia
- AccessScience ID054800
- AEDA geographic keyword ID3186
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID24
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID6151
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier489298317927541636
- ArchINFORM location ID3065
- Archive of Our Own tagAsia
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294899359
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/1812
- BabelNet ID00006329n
- Baidu Tieba name亚洲
- Basisklassifikation74.21
- BBC News topic IDc5rznn0nvvyt
- BBC Things IDba90754a-9033-4e9c-990b-d1139e5070a3
- BHCL UUIDa3a78752-7575-47d8-ab1f-5bd198ae7821
- Biblissima authority IDQ27170
- BIBSYS ID15042903
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDasien
- BVPB authority ID4361
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID01777b
- Colon ClassificationSG--4
- Comic Vine ID4020-57815
- Data Commons IDasia
- DBC author ID87097992628361
- De Agostini IDÀsia+(geografia)
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--5
- Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID499
- El Watan topic IDasie
- Enciclopedia dei ragazzi IDasia
- Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica IDasia
- Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale IDasia
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID82002
- Enciclopedia machiavelliana IDasia
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2NtVqS
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)635939
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID42763
- Euronews topic IDasia
- EuroVoc ID2838
- FactGrid item IDQ248758
- Fandom article IDapple:Asia
- FAST ID1240495
- France 24 topic ID (French)asie
- Freebase ID/m/0j0k
- GACS ID3808
- GCMD keyword ID9e29690c-079c-4429-afed-ef061ab0c41e
- GEMET ID598
- GeoNames ID6255147
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID1000004
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-1663
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Asia
- GitHub topicasia
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online IDAsia (1955)
- GND ID4003217-6
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDasia-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0005645
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDAsia
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDaziia-a76441
- Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia Online IDАзія
- Gyldendals Teaterleksikon IDAsien
- Harper's tagasia
- IAB code1221
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30233
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2042932
- IMDb keywordasia
- INaturalist place ID97395
- Interlingual Index IDi85019
- Itch.io tag IDtag-asia
- J-GLOBAL ID200906077014623441
- J9U entity ID987007295503505171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID2009
- Joconde discovery IDT115-188
- Joconde domain IDT51-118
- Joconde location IDT84-281
- KBpedia IDContinentOfAsia
- Klexikon article IDAsien
- KulturNav-IDbb2afaa4-2fe1-4ffa-86f5-680f711889d1
- Larousse IDautre-region/Asie/106404
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDgeographicAreas/a
- Le Monde diplomatique subject IDpays/asie
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201202513
- Lex IDAsien_-_verdensdel
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85008606
- Libris-URI42gjht4n0gm3kgk
- Lille norske leksikon IDAsia
- M49 code142
- Mapcarta IDAsia
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia IDA/asia
- MeSH descriptor IDD001208
- MeSH tree codeZ01.252