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Asia
Asia is part of Eurasia and the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres of the Earth. Asia has a number of regions and peoples and huge range of environments, cultures, histories and government systems.
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What is Oman relative location?
The absolute location of Muscat, Oman (Muscat is the Capital) is:
23.61 N; 58.54 E
It is on the Gulf of Oman next to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and across the gulf from Iran.
What percent of Asia is Muslim?
Around 62% of the world's Muslims live in Asia.
The Muslim population is about 1.6 billion.
The population of Asia is about 4 billion.
Therefore, about 24.8% of Asia is Muslim.
What is a land mass made up of Europe and Asia?
The combined land masses of Asia and Europe is called Eurasia.
Which Asian countries are poor?
There are many poor Asian countries including east timor, parts of china, Indonesia, cambodia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, laos, tajikistan, burma, Nepal, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe and heaps more.
Here is a good website that has a list of the developing Asian countries
http://www.aneki.com/countries.php?t=Poorest_Countries_in_Asia&table=fb129&places=*=*&order=&decimals=--&dependency=independent&number=all&cntdn=asc&r=-345-346-348-349-350-351-352&c=&measures=Country--GDP%20per%20capita&file=poorest_asia
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What types of vegetation zones exist in Asia?
The most known kind of vegetation found in Asia is wetlands and grasslands. However, they also are known for their tropical rain forests.
What is the major export of Kyrgyzstan?
Main industries small machinery, textiles, food processing, cement, shoes, sawn logs, refrigerators, furniture, electric motors, gold, rare earth metals
Agriculture - products: tobacco, cotton, potatoes, vegetables, grapes, fruits and berries; sheep, goats, cattle, wool
Labour force by occupation agriculture (55%), industry (15%), services (30%) (2000 est.
GDP by sector agriculture (38.5%), industry (22.8%), services (38.7%) (2004 est.
With the help of the above indicators I presume agricultural products, the industrial products mentioned at main industries and especially rare earth metals are the main export products of Kyrgyzstan. The high percentage of the labour force that is working in agriculture indicates that the level of automation is low. Next to this the service sector and industry sector are the main contributors to the GDP.
Who sailed south of were Columbus had landed but did not match polo's descriptions?
Amerigo Vespucci.
Are Russia and Asia one whole continent?
No, it would not be fine to consider Russia as solely part of the Asia continent. The country of Russia is located on both the continent of Europe and the continent of Asia. It's important to remember though, that the capital of Russia, and the seats of power for the federal government are located in the Europe portion of Russia, and that most Russians identify their country as being part of Europe.
India is one of the prominentest countries (second biggest, also by population) of and part of Asia
What are Asian people clothings?
well people in Asia wear jeans and a t shirt sometimes. their TRADITIONAL clothing would depend on the country. Chinese people would wear masks to the theatre and colorful cloths outside. Indians would wear bindis or bracelets on their arms, dye on their faces, and colorful cloths-usually their colors of the flag, such as red, white and green-around their bodies.
Clothes that cover their bodies
What is the name of the river that Alexander and his armies crossed after entering central Asia?
Alexander the great and his army crossed the Indus River after entering Central Asia.
They can cut terraces for more land or use double seeding. They can also use aquaculture.
Terraces - are like ledges on a mountain side
Double seeding - growing two different crops on the same land in a single year
aquaculture - sea farming
Who are the leading Asian producers of copper?
Top Asian countries in bauxite mining in 2010:
China - 40,000,000 t
India - 18,000,000 t
Kazakhstan - 5,300,000 t
Russia - 4,700,000 t
(estimated data, from U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2011)
What country in Asia is the richest in natural resources?
china because people in china are gaining more business
Why did europeans begin to took for a sea route to Asia?
There are many reasons for that decision taken by the traders.
1. In general transporting will be cheap if you take the route via sea than the land. (Ref: An inquiry into the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith)
2. before European traders discovered the sea route to Asia, they use to take the land route, which passes via the Middle East. And when once the sea routes were discovered the costs of many imported goods fell to one third of its value.
So the European traders started to travel to Asia by the sea.
How does the summer monsoon season benefit the region of Southeast Asia?
it provides water for the rice fields
Japan china Korea and Taiwan are referred as the far east why?
because it is very far in the east compared to us where ever us is
Why is Europe not part of Asia?
The EU is the name of an organisation. It is not a country or continent, so Asia and an organisation cannot be considered to be a continent. You are thinking of Europe. Together Europe and Asia form the landmass known as Eurasia, but it is divided by the mountain range called the Urals and some other geographical features, to form two continents. So they are two continents.
