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PJ
26th October 2005
What is the death rate and the birth rate, of Asia?
mark
16th September 2005
Do you think China can be future market for investing and what is the threat to the American Business from China?
Karl Pagaran\'s Bestfrend Jessie Maata
5th September 2005
Well,this website is pretty good,informative and truly factual compared to other infosites which just take you to confusing pages but never take you to what you really ought to know. This website is great, but still I'd wish they give more up-to-date researches on the population statistics. Thnks,kk;;; :)
roselle
22nd August 2005
I would suggest that you'll make continent per continent ranking of richest, populated, educated, poorest etc. It is better to start per continent than compare as one with the whole world. Thanks.
roselle
22nd August 2005
I would suggest that you'll make continent per continent ranking of richest, populated, educated, poorest etc. It is better to start per continent than compare as one with the whole world. Thanks.
Prince
20th August 2005
The aryan race only spreads until south asia/ burma(myanmar), for the people who are wondering. Nepal, bhutan, uzbekistan, myanmar, afghanistan, some of india and middle east are mainly aryan-mongoloid origin. Thailand and indo-china and the countries to the east are all asian origins but the fillipinos are differant as they have heavy latin influences.
jeevan
30th June 2005
Top 10 most populated countries in asia and their graphs
Canie_lover
16th June 2005
If Turks are Caucasian, then why are they of Mongolian origin?
Taylor
20th April 2005
It's not 'Sea of Japan' between Japan and Korea. It's 'Sea of Korea' you know..
Fallon
15th April 2005
Why isnt Thailand, Singapore, Burma, Laos etc mentioned aside from on the map?
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

9th March 2005
Hi Brendon, the typical Ukrainian family would belong to the lower middle income category and would be more likely to live in an urban area than in rural.

It would be a small family, an almost equal number of men and women, all of who would have had at least 9 years of schooling, most of who would be employed, enjoy good health and fairly happy.

Most of them would belong to an orthodox christian religious sect and attend church only rarely. But they're active sports lovers, known especially for their achievements in air games.

Most would speak Ukrainian or Russian, but some would speak Romanian, Polish or Hungarian. Most are avid cinema goers.

They eat mainly corn. oats and indigenous 'coarse' grains and grow most of their own vegetables.

For more, see: http://www.nationmaster.com/country/up/ and follow the links from there.

Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

3rd March 2005
Hi Magby, about 60% of the world's population lives in Asia . The 'Encyclopedia' pages have information by continents, but not the stats pages.
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

3rd March 2005
Hi Juan, The Philippines is listed under Southeast Asia. The categorization of Asia into Southeast, South and West Asia is common because it's such a large continent.
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

3rd March 2005
Hi Peace, you'll find info on total tourist arrivals and tourist arrivals per capita in the Economy section.
Suchita Vemuri
Staff Editor

2nd March 2005
National borders are politically decided and continental borders have traditionally been decided by the identification of continental plates, a geological formation. In recent years, there has been some debate on the definition of a 'Continent', some arguments being politically motivated; for example, Russia and other CIS countries are now keen to be seen as being part of Europe because of the advantages of being associated with the EU, whereas two centuries back, the countries of what is now called Western Europe were happy to acknowledge the geological fact that this (Western European) region is technically a vast peninsula of the Eurasian land mass that extends west from the Dardanelles, Black Sea, and Ural Mountains and is the sixth-largest continent.

One clear explanation of 'geopolitics' that I found is by Greg Cruey at: http://goasia.about.com/od/countriesaz/a/asiadefined.htm, where he says: "Geopolitical units have replaced continents in the public mind. The Middle East, for example, extending from Iran through the Arabian Peninsula and across North Africa, is not a continent. Algeria is in the Middle East, and on the continent of Africa. Iran is also in the Middle East, but on the continent of Asia. The middle East is not unique in this; terms like "Central America" and "Latin America" are both intended to replace geographic categories by using criteria other than just geography. And until after WWII, Southeast Asia was an unthought of idea: Burma and Thailand were "Greater India" and Vietnam and Cambodia were Indo-China. Geography may not change much, but time and politics seem to change how we interpret it."

Peter
31st December 2004
Where is Chinese data? Over 1.2 billion population,all kinds of representative people.
cambodia
23rd December 2004
political in cambodia
ALE IMRAN AHMED
4th December 2004
IM A PERSON WHO IS ALWAYS TRY TO IMPROVE MY KNOWLEGDE ABOUT WHATS GOING IN OUR CONTINENT SO PLZ GIVE MONTHLY NEWS.THANKS
ying
4th December 2004
I love this site it is very impormative, I just wish Philippines can be part of it
paul
26th November 2004
Hey, dumb, why do you show ASIA border as Russia border?
For you to know, Russia is belong both to Asia and Europe.
(I always thoght, americans can't imagine other countries/continets) ;)
sunil
16th November 2004
Info on this site is factual that. I simply loved this site !!
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