Bahrain Facts
Bahrain, State of the Persian Gulf; 678 km², 1.6 million residents (2019).Bahrain, which consists of some thirty...
Category: Guide to Asia
Bangladesh Facts
Bangladesh, State of South Asia; 147 570 km², 161.4 million residents (2019).Bangladesh is located at the Ganga...
Cyprus Facts
Cyprus, island in the northeastern Mediterranean; 9,251 km², 1.2 million residents (2019).Formally, the island is a single...
Hong Kong Facts
A fascinating cosmopolitan metropolis, with more than 7 million residents and 1,100 km² of area, combining oriental...
India Facts
India, Federal Republic of South Asia; 3.2 million km², 1,353 million residents (2019).The country covers most of...
Georgia Facts
Georgia, State of Western Caucasus, Northwest Asia; 69,700 km², 3.7 million residents (2019).Georgia borders Azerbaijan in the...
Macau Facts
Initially the Macau peninsula was inhabited by fishermen from the provinces of Fujien and Guangdong (Canton). In the...
Malaysia Facts
Malaysia, State of Southeast Asia; 329,800 km², 31.5 million residents (2019).Malaysia consists of two parts, Western Malaysia...
Maldives Facts
Maldives, state and archipelago of the northern Indian Ocean; 298 km², 516 000 residents (2019).The Maldives consists...
Japan Facts
Japan, State of East Asia; 377,835 km², 126.5 million residents (2019).Japan, located just over 800 km east...
Jordan Facts
Jordan; Middle Eastern state; 88,950 km², 10.0 million residents (2019).Jordan borders south to Saudi Arabia, west to...
Israel Facts
Israel, Middle East State; 20,770 km², 8.9 million residents (2019).Israel was established in 1948 in parts of...
Laos Facts
Laos, State of Southeast Asian Peninsula; 236,800 km², 7.1 million residents (2019).The Mekong, the peninsula’s largest river,...
Kyrgyzstan Facts
Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia state; 198,500 km², 6.3 million residents (2019).The country borders the north to Kazakhstan, to...
Kuwait Facts
Kuwait, state of northwestern Persian Gulf; 17,820 km², 4.1 million residents (2019).Kuwait borders Iraq on the north...
Lebanon Facts
Lebanon, Middle East State; 10 450 km², 6.8 million residents (2019).Lebanon borders in the north and east...
Kazakhstan Facts
Kazakhstan, a state located between the Caspian Sea and the Altai Mountains; 2.7 million km², 18.3 million...
Pakistan Facts
Pakistan, State of South Asia; 796 095 km², 212.2 million residents (2019).The figures do not include the...
Palestine Facts
Palestine is in West Asia, divided into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In 1947, the United...
Iran Facts
Iran, Middle East State; 1.6 million km², 81.8 million residents (2019).Iran borders in the west to Iraq...
Philippines Facts
Philippines, Southeast Asian State; 300,000 km², 106.6 million residents (2019).The Philippines is an island nation in the...
Indonesia Facts
Indonesia, a state in the island world of Southeast Asia; 1.9 million km², 267.7 million residents (2019).Indonesia...
Iraq Facts
Iraq, Middle Eastern state; 438,300 km², 38.4 million residents (2019).Iraq borders in the south to Saudi Arabia...
North Korea Facts
North Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, State of East Asia; 120 540 km², 25.5 million residents...
Oman Facts
Oman, state on the eastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula; 212 450 km², 4.8 million residents (2019).Oman...
Nepal Facts
Nepal, state of Asia, mostly located in the Himalayas; 147,181 km², 28.1 million residents (2019).Nepal borders the...
Mongolia Facts
Mongolia, a state in inner Asia between the Russian Federation in the north and China in the...
Singapore Facts
Singapore, Southeast Asian State; 719 km², 5.6 million residents (2019).Singapore, which is separated from the Malacca Peninsula...
Saudi Arabia Facts
Saudi Arabia, State of the Arabian Peninsula, Southwest Asia; 2.2 million km², 33.7 million residents (2019).Saudi Arabia...
Sri Lanka Facts
Sri Lanka, South Asian State; 65,610 km², 21.7 million residents (2019).Sri Lanka consists of the main island...
