Asian Country

• China

  A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country...

• India

  A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the...

• Japan

  A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics...

• Asian country

  Any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent.

• Iraq

  A republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was...

• Pakistan

  A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the...

• Iran

  A theocratic Islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the...

• Nepal

  A small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China.

• Tibet

  An autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China; located in the Himalayas.

• Afghanistan

  A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia...

• Syria

  An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of...

• Bangladesh

  A Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and...

• Lebanon

  An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean.

• Jordan

  An Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea.

• South Korea

  A republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948.

• Yemen

  A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed...

• Tajik

  A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly...

• Uzbek

  A landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet.

• Bahrain

  An island country in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Saudi Arabia; oil revenues funded...

• Kuwait

  An Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of...

• North Korea

  A communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 19...

• Mongolia

  A landlocked socialist republic in central Asia.

• Oman

  A strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula;...

• Qatar

  An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in...

• Kazak

  A landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the...

• Kirghiz

  A landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an...

• United Arab Emirates

  A federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; achieved...

• Bhutan

  A landlocked principality in the Himalayas to the northeast of India.

Geographical Area

• Promised Land

  An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea;...

• Southeast Asia

  A geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines...

• Mongolia

  A vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mong...

• Parthia

  An ancient kingdom in Asia to the southeast of the Caspian Sea; it dominated southwestern...

• Turkistan

  A historical region of central Asia that was a center for trade between the East and the...

• Tartary

  The vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the...

Peninsula

• Asia Minor

  A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey.

• Arabian Peninsula

  A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important...

• Malay Peninsula

  A peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and...

• Korea

  An Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean...

Africa

• Roman Empire

  An empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman...

• Ottoman Empire

  A Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern...

• Great Rift Valley

  ( geology) a depression in southwestern Asia and eastern Africa; extends from...

River

• Argun

  A river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between...

• Kura

  A river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and flows to the Caspian Sea.

Also contains

• Turkmen

  A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to...

• Persia

  An empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed...

• Asian Russia

  The Russia that is part of Asia.

• Altai Mountains

  A mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward...

• flying carpet

  (Asian folktale) an imaginary carpet that will fly people anywhere they wish to g...