asia

Noun
  1. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population;
    It is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia;
    It is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations (synset 109230176)
    domain member region:
    • flying carpet - (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to go
    • freedom party, hizb ut-tahrir - the most popular and feared Islamic extremist group in central Asia; advocates `pure' Islam and the creation of a worldwide Islamic state
    is an instance of: continent - one of the large landmasses of the earth
    has:
    • asian country, asian nation - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent
    • anatolia, asia minor - a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey
    • afghanistan, islamic state of afghanistan - a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
    • southeast asia - a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
    • cathay, china, communist china, mainland china, people's republic of china, prc, red china - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
    • turkestan, turkistan - a historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the West
    • canaan, holy land, palestine, promised land - an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
    • roman empire - an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
    • arabia, arabian peninsula - a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources
    • bahrain, bahrein, state of bahrain - an island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia; oil revenues funded progressive programs until reserves were exhausted in 1970s
    • bangla desh, bangladesh, east pakistan, people's republic of bangladesh - a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971
    • bhutan, kingdom of bhutan - a landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India
    • bharat, india, republic of india - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
    • kingdom of nepal, nepal - a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China
    • sitsang, thibet, tibet, xizang - an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas
    • iran, islamic republic of iran, persia - a theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil
    • persia, persian empire - an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
    • al-iraq, irak, iraq, republic of iraq - a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq
    • japan, nihon, nippon - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
    • hashemite kingdom of jordan, jordan - an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea
    • koweit, kuwait, state of kuwait - an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum
    • dae-han-min-gook, han-gook, korea, korean peninsula - an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook
    • d.p.r.k., democratic people's republic of korea, dprk, north korea - a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
    • republic of korea, south korea - a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
    • lebanese republic, lebanon - an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean
    • malay peninsula - a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar
    • tartary, tatary - the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries
    • mongolia - a vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mongolia
    • mongolia, mongolian people's republic, outer mongolia - a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia
    • muscat and oman, oman, sultanate of oman - a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil
    • islamic republic of pakistan, pakistan, west pakistan - a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
    • parthia - an ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern Asia from about 250 BC to AD 226
    • katar, qatar, state of katar, state of qatar - an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil
    • asian russia - the Russia that is part of Asia
    • kazak, kazakh, kazakhstan, kazakstan, republic of kazakhstan - a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991
    • kirghiz, kirghizia, kirghizstan, kirgiz, kirgizia, kirgizstan, kyrgyz republic, kyrgyzstan - a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
    • republic of tajikistan, tadjik, tadzhik, tadzhikistan, tajik, tajikistan - a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
    • turkmen, turkmenia, turkmenistan, turkomen - a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
    • republic of uzbekistan, uzbek, uzbekistan - a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
    • syria, syrian arab republic - an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization
    • ottoman empire, turkish empire - a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
    • united arab emirates - a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; rich in oil reserves
    • republic of yemen, yemen - a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990
    • altai mountains, altay mountains - a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China
    • argun, argun river, ergun he - a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River
    • great rift valley - ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from the valley of the Jordan River to Mozambique; marked by geological faults
    • kura, kura river - a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea
    is a part of: eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
  2. The nations of the Asian continent collectively (synset 108189776)
    is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    specific instances: east, orient - the countries of Asia

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