He won his Nobel Prize in Literature for notable impact his prose works and poetic thought had on English, French, and other national literatures of Europe and the Americas. The association is an intergovernmental organization established for economic growth, political stability, active collaboration, mutual assistance, and educational and cultural integration. As the Earth's largest continent, Asia has an enormous diversity of terrains, physical features, and climates. The capital city of Thailand is the nation's cultural and commercial center and a major transportation hub in Southeast Asia.

The continent is divided into six geographic sub-regions: Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia. Indian and East Asian religions The Swaminarayan Akshardham Temple in Delhi, according to the Guinness World Records, is the World's Largest Comprehensive Hindu Temple. India has grown significantly because of economic liberalisation that started in the 1990s, [67] with extreme poverty now below 20%. The Communist-governed countries of China, Vietnam and North Korea are officially atheist, thus the number of Buddhists and other religious adherents may be under-reported.In general terms, it is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The Modern World: Civilizations of Africa, Civilizations of Europe, Civilizations of the Americas, Civilizations of the Middle East and Southwest Asia, Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific.

Most of them are always associated with North America, except for the westernmost Near Islands group, which is on Asia's continental shelf beyond the North Aleutians Basin and on rare occasions could be associated with Asia, which could then allow the U. It is also odor-free making it safe for all rooms in the home and commercial interiors where the initial solvent smell would be an issue such as schools, restaurants, cafes and offices. Islam, which originated in the Hejaz located in modern-day Saudi Arabia, is the second largest and most widely-spread religion in Asia with at least 1 billion Muslims constituting around 23. The satellite image was produced using Landsat data from NASA and the map was produced using data licensed from and copyright by Map Resources.Asia Natural Resources: Asia has enormous amounts of virtually untapped fossil fuel, metal and industrial mineral resources. Jainism is found mainly in India and in overseas Indian communities such as the United States and Malaysia. She is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma (Myanmar) and a noted prisoner of conscience.

In Greek mythology, "Asia" ( Ἀσία) or "Asie" ( Ἀσίη) was the name of a " Nymph or Titan goddess of Lydia".In the Middle East, such as in the Levant, Anatolia and Fars, Syriac Christianity ( Church of the East) and Oriental Orthodoxy are prevalent minority denominations, [116] which are both Eastern Christian sects mainly adhered to Assyrian people or Syriac Christians.

This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait, with Big Diomede in Russia and Little Diomede in the United States. It is followed by Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are all ranked amongst the top 20 largest economies both by nominal and PPP values. West Asia, also known as Southwest Asia or the Middle East, has cultural roots in the ancient civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, which gave rise to the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.citation needed] Anaximander placed the boundary between Asia and Europe along the Phasis River (the modern Rioni river) in Georgia of Caucasus (from its mouth by Poti on the Black Sea coast, through the Surami Pass and along the Kura River to the Caspian Sea), a convention still followed by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. Covers the area north to Tajikistan and western China, south to Sri Lanka, west to Afghanistan, and east to Burma.