Category: Asia

The name of Asia is ancient and has explained its origin in various ways. Greeks used it to choose land in the eastern part of their homeland. It believes the name to come from the Assyrian word ASU, meaning “east.” Another account, it was the place name of the Ephesus Plain. The ancient Greeks and Romans first pointed to the Anatolia Asia Minor. It’s the western end of the contemporary Asian continent, and then to the known world of the East. The Mediterranean When Western explorers arrived in South Asia and East Asia in the early modern times. They extended the label to the entire vast land.

Asia Part Of The Seven Continent World Map And History

Asia bounded by the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east. The Indian Ocean in the south. The Red Sea in the southwest (and the inland seas of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea). Europe in the west. It separates Asia from North America to the Northeast by the Bering Strait. From Australia to the Southeast, separated by the waters and straits connecting the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The Suez Isthmus links Asia to Africa and assumed the Suez Canal forms the boundary between them. Two narrow straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, separate Anatolia from the Balkans.

The land boundary between Asia and Europe is a historical and cultural building, defined in various ways; it is only a matter of agreement; the topic to specific restrictions. The most convenient geographic boundary adopted by most geographers is the route. That extends southward from the Arctic Ocean along the Ural Mountains and then southwest along the Emba River. On the northern coast of the Caspian Sea; west of the Caspian Sea. The border along Kuma-Manych fell into the Kerch Strait of the Azov Sea and the Black Sea. So, the isthmus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea culminates in the southern Caucasus Mountains and is part.