Place details
Place nameAsia
Other namesAsie, Asien, Azië, Asian
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Largest continent; was home to early hominids; developed domestication of animals & crops by 9000 BCE; developed complex early cultures in Mesopotamia, India & China.
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- Broader
- Narrower
- Gauri Sankar
- Ma
- Putri Narrows
- Nebesnaja, gora
- Nam
- Salwa, Bahr as-
- Rakha La
- Vardenisskiy Khrebet
- Pyandzh
- San
- Manipur
- South Asia
- Oman, Gulf of
- Punch
- Raidak
- Ob'
- Okhotskoye More
- Zailijskij-Alatau, chrebet
- Taiwan Strait
- Sundarbans
- Southeast Asia
- Sharqi, Al-Jabal ash-
- Singapore Strait
- Mishmi Hills
- Sajur, Nahr as
- Patkai Bum
- Tung Hai
- Toguzak
- Makran Coast
- Maldives
- Malacca, Strait of
- Mannar, Gulf of
- Rampart of Genghis Khan
- Samur
- Chatkal'skiy Khrebet
- Japan, Sea of
- Malaysia
- Plato Ustyurt
- Scythia
- Sembakung
- Isim
- Sachdagskij chrebet
- Mu Gia, Deo
- Shigar
- Sarju
- Yellow Sea
- Yalnizçam Daglari
- Mintaka Pass
- Qatar
- Paektu-san
- Muganskaya Ravnina
- Nubra
- Shihan, Wadi
- Syrian Desert
- Thaungyin
- Tesiyn Gol
- Tremo La
- T'aebaek-sanmaek
- Tien Shan
- Palk Strait
- Pobedy, Pik
- Tawi
- Zeravshanskiy Khrebet
- Singalila
- Ugamskij chrebet
- Talasskiy Alatau, Khrebet
- Uy
- Manas
- Zaalajskij chrebet
- Xiamen Gang
- Menza
- Three Pagodas Pass
- Ravi
- Subansiri
- Soya-kaikyo
- Makhruq, Wadi al-
- Pir Panjal
- Ussuri
- Zab-E Kuchek
- Turkestan
- Naga Hills
- Mashkel
- Thailand, Gulf of
- Jordan
- Tengtiao
- Mahananda
- Georgia
- Shweli
- Tebulosmta
- Chagai Hills
- Singalila Range
- Sutlej
- Kurumdy, gora
- North Bengal Plains
- Zhujiang Kou
- Sankosh
- Amnok-kang
- Babatag, Khrebet
- Border Mountains
- Pauhunri
- Mongolia
- Sabri, Hamun-e
- Tharr, Wüste
- Tista
- Mawdaung Pass
- Khyber Pass
- Sebatik, Pulau
- Ubayyid, Wadi al-
- Meymeh
- Nanas Channel
- Tumen
- Gyala Shankou
- Kalakashihe
- Azerbaijan
- Raimangal
- Pagon, Bukit
- Rapti
- Talyshskiye Gory
- Loi
- Armenia
- Xingkai Hu
- Isfana
- Pamir
- East Timor
- Scarborough Shoal
- Japan
- Nowshak
- Sayan Mountains
- Nanshan Island
- Weizhou Wan
- Pakistan
- West Bank (Yisra'el)
- Uldz
- Talas
- Kulundinskaya Step
- Macau
- Everest, Mount
- Lipu-Lak-la
- Kerulen
- Gasherbrum
- Transcaucasia
- Imjin
- Sabkhat Albu Gharz
- Mesopotamia
- Amo
- Hangang
- Karatoya
- Gaza Strip (Yisra'el)
- Greater Sunda Islands
- Or'
- Chomiomo
- Iori
- Malay Archipelago
- Dorah An
- Arpa
- Tigris
- Asi
- Gyenmo Chen
- Indus
- Iran, Plateau of
- Ural
- Sarykol'skij chrebet
- Lowrah
- Shatt al Arab
- Bangladesh
- Heriyn Gol
- Makalu
- Tobol
- Vietnam
- Laccadive Sea
- Lebanon
- Karadar'ya
- Bahrain
- East Asia
- Oral Syrty Üstirti
- Abu Musa, Jazireh-ye
- Korean Peninsula
- Ajij, Wadi al-
- Andaman Sea
- Cyprus
- Baluchistan
- Kundar
- Palk Bay
- Kyrgyzstan
- Afrin
- Kazakhstan
- Mirah, Wadi al-
- Kachchh
- Ca
- Murgab
- Punch
- Vakhan, Ab-e
- Kasansaj
- Al-Hajarah
- Palestinian state
- Ili
- New Guinea
- Soviet Union
- Shaykh, Jabal ash-
- Zorkul', Ozero
- Al Kidan
- Torugart, pereval
- Mazar, Jabal
- Sarda
- South Korea
- Surchandarja
- Changbai Shan
- Reza, gora
- Sayanskiy Khrebet
- Munki-Sardyk, Gora
- Selenga
- Burma Road
- Celebes Sea
- Bolgarcaj
- Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Armenia
- Shyok
- Kangchenjunga
- Bangong Co
- Sa-ssu-K'a-erh Shan
- Alashiya
- Korea Bay
- Brunei, Teluk
- Phoenicia
- Ergun He
- Thailand
- Chenab
- Arpa Çay
- Persian Gulf
- Anazah, Jabal
- United Arab Emirates
- Song Koi
- Nemuro Strait
- Sibutu Passage
- South China Sea
- Ajat
- Cyprus
- China
- Afghanistan
- Kangto
- East Indies
- Karakorum Shan
- Arar, Wadi
- Dead Sea
- Kyonggi-man
- Kamla
- Aral'skoye More
- Namakzar, Daryacheh-ye
- Safed Koh Range
- Kurdistan
- Mongol Empire
- Soch
- Tonkin, Gulf of
- Sargou
- Hasbani, Nahr al-
- Ermana, Khrebet
- Palestine
- Achaemenid Empire
- Altai
- Khungdugang
- Sistan, Daryacheh-ye
- Cagan
- Lao
- Eight Degree Channel
- El'brus
- Namja La
- Star Mountains
- Rub al Khali
- Lhotse
- Kishen Ganga
- Nanding He
- Onon
- Kuwait
- Malay Peninsula
- Zangezurskij chrebet
- Turanskaya Nizmennost
- Ganges Delta
- Luhit
- Golok, Sungei
- Western Channel
- Philippines
- Nahang
- Turkestanskiy Khrebet
- Malek
- Gissarskiy Khrebet
- Kok
- Persia
- Gobi
- Aksaut
- Kaladan
- Reng Tlang
- Bilauktaung Range
- Kapuas Hulu, Pegunungan
- Arsufhsa
- Tarbagatay, Khrebet
- Caucasus
- Iran, Pegunungan
- Hariabhanga
- Ladakh
- Lancang Jiang
- Tannu Ola
- Yarmuk
- Phanom Dongrak, Thiu Khao
- Lora, Hamun-i
- Aksay
- Dzhungarskiya Vorota
- Chang Chenmo
- Borneo
- Kunjirap Daban
- Chalchyn
- Great Channel
- Akstafachay
- Kafirnigan
- Korea Strait
- Sheba
- Iorskoje ploskogorje
- Chu, Sông
- Kyzyl-Khem
- Taiwan
- Ak-Suu
- Alazani
- Amudarya
- Annamitique, Chaîne
- Aq
- Arabian Peninsula
- Araks
- Argun
- Arun
- Aspara
- Assa
- Assyria
- Atrai
- Atrek
- Azarbaijan
- Bagmati
- Bashi Channel
- Batin, Wadi al-
- Belucha, gora
- Bengal
- Bengal, Bay of
- Bestor, gora
- Bhutan
- Bol'saja Chobda
- Brahmaputra
- Brunei
- Bubus, Bukit
- Büyükzap
- Cambodia
- Catkal
- Cho-mo-la-li Shan
- Cho Oyu
- Chola
- Chuor Phnum Krâvanh
- Cikoj
- Coco Channel
- Çoruh
- Cu
- Dabusutu-Ula, gora
- Datuk, Tanjung
- Daying
- Debet
- Degh
- Diklosmta, gora
- Diyala
- Dombaj-Ul'gen, gora
- Dorje Lapka
- Durbet-Daba, Pereval
- Dzelter Gol
- Dzhindinskiy, Khrebet
- Dzhungatrskiy Alatau, Khrebet
- Emel
- Euphrates
- Gandak
- Ganges, Mouths of the
- Ganges, River
- Ghaghra
- Girwa
- Gowmal
- Guton
- Gwatar Bay
- HaArava
- Hadera
- Hamir, Wadi
- Hangang
- Heilong Jiang
- Helmand
- Heung, Nam
- Himalayas
- Hindu Kush
- Hormuz
- Humla Karnali
- Ichamati
- Ilek
- India
- India
- Indochina
- Indonesia
- Ionia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Irtysh
- Isimskaja step'
- Israel
- Jelep La
- Jhelum
- Johor, Selat
- Jordan
- K2
- Kadani
- Kamet
- Kashmir
- Kazbek
- Keo Neua, Col de
- Khalid Ibn al-Walid
- Khawr Abd Allah
- Khojang
- Khozapini, Ozero
- Kokshaal-Tau, Khrebet
- Kông, Tônlé
- Kopet-Dag, Khrebet
- Kra, Isthmus of
- Kugart
- Kunar
- Kura
- Kuraminskiy, Khrebet
- Kurram
- Kuska
- Kyzylkum, Peski
- Ladakh Range
- Levant
- Lixian Jiang
- Luang Prabang Thiu
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Northern Cyprus
- Oman
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tejen
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uzbekistan
- Yemen