The region is also home to India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Singapore, Brunei (surrounded by East Malaysia) on the island of Borneo, and East Timor (Timor-Leste) on the island of Timor. The Asian countries of Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan, China and Sri Lanka were among the 16 countries facing extreme risk from climate change.

The physical map of Asia shown above was prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, better known as the CIA, in August 2013. The region is host to various cats, several species of leopards like the clouded leopard, the Asian golden cat, and the Asian tiger. Almost all of Europe and a major part of Asia sit atop the Eurasian Plate, adjoined on the south by the Arabian and Indian Plate and with the easternmost part of Siberia (east of the Chersky Range) on the North American Plate. He reports that Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus, but that Lydians say it was named after Asies, son of Cotys, who passed the name on to a tribe at Sardis.

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Kag chode, a Buddhist temple in the village of Kagbeni in Mustang, the former Kingdom of Lo, in Nepal. Some Arab countries took economic advantage of massive oil deposits that were discovered in their territory, becoming globally influential.

Asia is normally considered its own continent in the English speaking world, which uses the seven continent model. The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra. The Aleutian Islands are sometimes associated with Oceania, owing to their status as remote Pacific islands, and their proximity to the Pacific Plate.According to Citigroup in 2011, 9 of 11 Global Growth Generators countries came from Asia driven by population and income growth. In Greek mythology, "Asia" ( Ἀσία) or "Asie" ( Ἀσίη) was the name of a " Nymph or Titan goddess of Lydia". p. 178) Καὶ τῇ Εὐρώπῃ δὲ συνάπτει διὰ τοῦ μεταξὺ αὐχένος τῆς τε Μαιώτιδος λίμνης καὶ τοῦ Σαρματικοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς διαβάσεως τοῦ Τανάϊδος ποταμοῦ. Mount Apo (2,954 m), a dormant stratovolcano on the island of Mindanao, is the highest mountain in the Philippines. The eastern region of Asia consists of the Asian nations of China (including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet), Japan, Mongolia, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), South Korea (Republic of Korea), and Taiwan (Republic of China).