Synonyms

Asia

American

[ay-zhuh, ay-shuh] / ˈeɪ ʒə, ˈeɪ ʃə /

noun

a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. About 16,000,000 square miles (41,440,000 square kilometers).

Asia British

/ ˈeɪʒə, ˈeɪʃə /

noun

the largest of the continents, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the large peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka); contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran, and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris, and Euphrates. Pop: 3 917 508 000 (2005 est). Area: 44 391 162 sq km (17 139 445 sq miles)

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Asia Cultural

World's largest continent, joined to Europe to the west, forming Eurasia.

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Site of some of the world's earliest civilizations.

With three-fifths of the world's population, Asia has some of the world's greatest population densities.

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Asia

The tour of Asia, and its commitment to investment, comes at an important juncture for the semiconductor sector as a whole.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

These special editions, slim enough to slip into a pocket, went everywhere men were under arms, from cockpits to foxholes—even to prisoner-of-war camps in Europe and Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Asia struggled to match the positive energy on Wall Street, where the Dow and S&P 500 also ended higher.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

That’s the question at the center of a new International Monetary Fund book, “Toward a New Economic Growth Model for China,” co-written by Krishna Srinivasan, the fund’s top Asia official.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

He asked the youth to take a letter to the King of Lycia in Asia and Bellerophon easily agreed.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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