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222-507: A South Asian country, emerges as one of the world's fastest movers since 1970 mainly due to health and education achievements. Its present life expectancy is 25 years longer than in the 1970s. More than four of every five children of school age in Nepal now attend primary school, compared to just one in five 40 years ago. Hong Kong ranked highest among the countries grouped on the HDI (number 7 in
296-676: A major hub for outsourcing. Trade between Asian countries and countries on other continents is largely carried out on the sea routes that are important for Asia. Individual main routes have emerged from this. The main route leads from the Chinese coast south via Hanoi to Jakarta, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur through the Strait of Malacca via the Sri Lankan Colombo to the southern tip of India via Malé to East Africa Mombasa (see also: Indo-Pacific ), from there to Djibouti , then through
370-575: A marsh or lowland containing a marsh in Lydia as ασιος . The term was later adopted by the Romans , who used it in reference to the province of Asia , located in western Anatolia. One of the first writers to use Asia as a name of the whole continent was Pliny . The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East Asia , South Asia , Southeast Asia , Central Asia , and West Asia . The coastal periphery
444-399: Is a region where various independent cultures coexist rather than sharing a single culture, and the boundary between Europe is somewhat arbitrary and has moved since its first conception in classical antiquity . The division of Eurasia into two continents reflects East–West cultural differences, some of which vary on a spectrum. China and India traded places as the largest economies in
518-1112: Is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia. It is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains , and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma–Manych Depression ) and the Caspian and Black Seas . 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. Asia is subdivided into 49 countries, five of them ( Georgia , Azerbaijan , Russia , Kazakhstan and Turkey ) are transcontinental countries lying partly in Europe . Geographically, Russia
592-514: Is growing rapidly. In 2010, Asia had 3.3 million millionaires (people with net worth over US$ 1 million excluding their homes), slightly below North America with 3.4 million millionaires. In 2011, Asia topped Europe in number of millionaires. Citigroup in The Wealth Report 2012 stated that Asian centa-millionaire overtook North America's wealth for the first time as the world's "economic center of gravity" continued moving east. At
666-467: Is moist across southeast sections, and dry across much of the interior. Some of the largest daily temperature ranges on Earth occur in western sections of Asia. The monsoon circulation dominates across southern and eastern sections, due to the presence of the Himalayas forcing the formation of a thermal low which draws in moisture during the summer. Southwestern sections of the continent are hot. Siberia
740-588: Is one of the coldest places in the Northern Hemisphere , and can act as a source of arctic air masses for North America. The most active place on Earth for tropical cyclone activity lies northeast of the Philippines and south of Japan. Climate change is particularly important in Asia, as the continent accounts for the majority of the human population. Warming since the 20th century is increasing
814-721: Is partly in Asia, but is considered a European nation , both culturally and politically. The Gobi Desert is in Mongolia and the Arabian Desert stretches across much of the Middle East. The Yangtze in China is the longest river in the continent. The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world. Tropical rainforests stretch across much of southern Asia and coniferous and deciduous forests lie farther north. There are various approaches to
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#1732776557984888-493: Is projected to move to third place, behind China and India. While nearly half of the world's new renewable energy capacity is built in Asia, this is not yet sufficient in order to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement . They imply that the renewables would account for 35% of total energy consumption in Asia by 2030. Asia has the largest continental economy in the world by both GDP nominal and PPP values, and
962-429: Is the fastest growing economic region. As of 2023 , China is by far the largest economy on the continent, making up nearly half of the continent's economy by GDP nominal. It is followed by Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are all ranked among the top 20 largest economies both by nominal and PPP values. Based on Global Office Locations 2011, Asia dominated the office locations with 4 of
1036-403: Is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, about 30% of Earth 's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Its 4.7 billion people constitute roughly 60% of
1110-14724: Is the official competition for senior national handball teams of Asia (since 2018, also includes teams from Oceania ), and takes place every two years. In addition to crowning the Asian champions, International Handball Federation (IHF) and Asian Handball Federation (AHF) the tournament also serves as a qualifying tournament for the World Championship . Summary [ edit ] Year Host Final Third place match Champion Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place 1977 Details [REDACTED] Kuwait City [REDACTED] Japan 24–14 [REDACTED] South Korea [REDACTED] China 38–16 [REDACTED] Kuwait 1979 Details [REDACTED] Nanjing [REDACTED] Japan No playoffs [REDACTED] China [REDACTED] Kuwait No playoffs [REDACTED] Palestine 1983 Details [REDACTED] Seoul [REDACTED] South Korea 25–19 [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Kuwait 31–21 [REDACTED] Bahrain 1987 Details [REDACTED] Amman [REDACTED] South Korea No playoffs [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Kuwait No playoffs [REDACTED] China 1989 Details [REDACTED] Beijing [REDACTED] South Korea No playoffs [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Kuwait No playoffs [REDACTED] China 1991 Details [REDACTED] Hiroshima [REDACTED] South Korea 27–23 [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] China 29–17 [REDACTED] Qatar 1993 Details [REDACTED] Manama [REDACTED] South Korea 26–22 [REDACTED] Kuwait [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 1995 Details [REDACTED] Kuwait City [REDACTED] Kuwait No playoffs [REDACTED] South Korea [REDACTED] Bahrain No playoffs [REDACTED] Japan 2000 Details [REDACTED] Kumamoto [REDACTED] South Korea No playoffs [REDACTED] China [REDACTED] Japan No playoffs [REDACTED] Chinese Taipei 2002 Details [REDACTED] Isfahan [REDACTED] Kuwait 29–25 [REDACTED] Qatar [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 38–33 [REDACTED] South Korea 2004 Details [REDACTED] Doha [REDACTED] Kuwait 28–24 [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Qatar 27–26 [REDACTED] Bahrain 2006 Details [REDACTED] Bangkok [REDACTED] Kuwait 33–30 [REDACTED] South Korea [REDACTED] Qatar 21–20 [REDACTED] Iran 2008 Details [REDACTED] Isfahan [REDACTED] South Korea 27–21 [REDACTED] Kuwait [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 24–23 [REDACTED] Iran 2010 Details [REDACTED] Beirut [REDACTED] South Korea 32–25 [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] Japan 33–30 OT [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 2012 Details [REDACTED] Jeddah [REDACTED] South Korea 23–22 [REDACTED] Qatar [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 25–21 [REDACTED] Japan 2014 Details [REDACTED] Isa Town / Manama [REDACTED] Qatar 27–26 [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] Iran 29–23 [REDACTED] United Arab Emirates 2016 Details [REDACTED] Isa Town / Manama [REDACTED] Qatar 27–22 [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] Japan 25–16 [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 2018 Details [REDACTED] Suwon [REDACTED] Qatar 33–31 [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] South Korea 29–21 [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 2020 Details [REDACTED] Kuwait City [REDACTED] Qatar 33–21 [REDACTED] South Korea [REDACTED] Japan 27–26 [REDACTED] Bahrain 2022 Details [REDACTED] Dammam / Qatif [REDACTED] Qatar 29–24 [REDACTED] Bahrain [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 26–23 [REDACTED] Iran 2024 Details [REDACTED] Isa Town / Manama [REDACTED] Qatar 30–24 [REDACTED] Japan [REDACTED] Bahrain 26–17 [REDACTED] Kuwait Medal table [ edit ] Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 [REDACTED] South Korea 9 4 1 14 2 [REDACTED] Qatar 6 2 2 10 3 [REDACTED] Kuwait 4 2 4 10 4 [REDACTED] Japan 2 6 5 13 5 [REDACTED] Bahrain 0 5 2 7 6 [REDACTED] China 0 2 2 4 7 [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 0 0 4 4 8 [REDACTED] Iran 0 0 1 1 Totals (8 entries) 21 21 21 63 Participating nations [ edit ] Nation [REDACTED] 1977 [REDACTED] 1979 [REDACTED] 1983 [REDACTED] 1987 [REDACTED] 1989 [REDACTED] 1991 [REDACTED] 1993 [REDACTED] 1995 [REDACTED] 2000 [REDACTED] 2002 [REDACTED] 2004 [REDACTED] 2006 [REDACTED] 2008 [REDACTED] 2010 [REDACTED] 2012 [REDACTED] 2014 [REDACTED] 2016 [REDACTED] 2018 [REDACTED] 2020 [REDACTED] 2022 [REDACTED] 2024 Years [REDACTED] Australia 11th 12th 16th WD 3 [REDACTED] Bahrain 6th 4th 5th 5th 6th 3rd 7th 4th 6th 10th 2nd 6th 2nd 2nd 2nd 4th 2nd 3rd 18 [REDACTED] Bangladesh 13th 1 [REDACTED] China 3rd 2nd 4th 4th 3rd 5th 5th 2nd 8th 7th 9th 11th 9th 9th 11th 10th 16 [REDACTED] Chinese Taipei 7th 7th 7th 10th 7th 4th 11th 7 [REDACTED] Hong Kong 8th 9th 10th 11th 13th 5 [REDACTED] India 5th 9th 12th 15th 16th 5 [REDACTED] Iran 8th 11th 9th 5th 5th 7th 4th 4th 7th 5th 3rd 5th 5th 6th 4th 6th 16 [REDACTED] Iraq 5th 10th 10th 9th 6th 8th 6 [REDACTED] Japan 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd 4th 3rd 6th 2nd 5th 6th 3rd 4th 9th 3rd 6th 3rd WD 2nd 20 [REDACTED] Jordan 7th 9th 8th 7th 12th 9th 12th 7 [REDACTED] Kazakhstan 11th 8th 14th 3 [REDACTED] Kuwait 4th 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 8th 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 8th 7th 8th 7th 4th 17 [REDACTED] Lebanon 9th 8th 10th 3 [REDACTED] Nepal 11th 1 [REDACTED] New Zealand 14th 13th 15th 3 [REDACTED] North Korea 9th 1 [REDACTED] Oman 9th 8th 8th 8th 10th 12th 6 [REDACTED] Palestine 7th 4th 10th 3 [REDACTED] Qatar 6th 6th 6th 4th 7th 2nd 3rd 3rd 5th 5th 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 17 [REDACTED] Saudi Arabia 8th 5th 5th 10th 4th WD 3rd 5th WD 3rd 4th 3rd 6th 4th 4th 7th 3rd 9th 16 [REDACTED] Singapore 14th 1 [REDACTED] South Korea 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 2nd 1st 4th 2nd 1st 1st 1st 5th 6th 3rd 2nd 5th 5th 18 [REDACTED] Syria 8th 12th 12th 6th 11th 5 [REDACTED] Thailand 9th 1 [REDACTED] United Arab Emirates 9th 6th 8th 6th 6th 8th 11th 7th 4th 7th 7th 5th 9th 7th 14 [REDACTED] Uzbekistan 10th 12th 10th 8th 4 [REDACTED] Vietnam 13th 1 Total 9 5 8 11 9 12 12 9 5 7 9 9 10 12 10 12 11 14 13 16 16 See also [ edit ] Asian Men's Junior Handball Championship Asian Men's Youth Handball Championship Asian Women's Handball Championship Asian Women's Junior Handball Championship Asian Women's Youth Handball Championship External links [ edit ] Asian Handball Federation Archives at Todor66.com v t e AHF Competitions Men Senior handball AHF Championship Asian Games Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Age-restricted U-21 Championship U-19 Championship Asian Youth Games Beach handball Beach Handball Championship Asian Beach Games U-17 Beach Handball Championship Club Club Championship Women Senior handball AHF Women's Championship Asian Games West Asian Championship Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament Age-restricted U-20 Championship U-18 Championship Asian Youth Games Beach handball Beach Handball Championship Asian Beach Games U-17 Beach Handball Championship Club Club Championship v t e Asian 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2000 Kazakhstan 2002 Japan 2004 China 2006 Thailand 2008 Kazakhstan 2010 Indonesia 2012 Indonesia 2015 South Korea 2017 Japan 2018 Jordan 2021 South Korea 2022 India 2024 v t e International handball IAHF IHF Olympic Games World Championships Men Women National teams Player of
1184-598: The European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or APEC ). This ended in 2010 when China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest economy. It is forecasted that India will overtake Japan in terms of nominal GDP by 2027. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's GDP by currency exchange rates was almost as large as that of the rest of Asia combined. In 1995, Japan's economy nearly equaled that of
1258-731: The Hebrew Bible in the narrative of Noah —and later to Christians in the Old Testament , and to Muslims in the Quran —is earliest found in Mesopotamian mythology , in the Enûma Eliš and Epic of Gilgamesh . Hindu mythology similarly tells about an avatar of Vishnu in the form of a fish who warned Manu of a terrible flood. Ancient Chinese mythology also tells of a Great Flood spanning generations, one that required
1332-621: The Hindu Kush region will become more unstable as its enormous glaciers , known as the "Asian water towers", gradually melt. These changes to water cycle also affect vector-borne disease distribution, with malaria and dengue fever expected to become more prominent in the tropical and subtropical regions. Food security will become more uneven, and South Asian countries could experience significant impacts from global food price volatility. Historical emissions from Asia are lower than those from Europe and North America. However, China has been
1406-722: The Surami Pass and along the Kura River to the Caspian Sea), a convention still followed by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE. During the Hellenistic period , this convention was revised, and the boundary between Europe and Asia was now considered to be the Tanais (the modern Don River). This is the convention used by Roman era authors such as Posidonius , Strabo and Ptolemy . The border between Asia and Europe
1480-915: The Ural River prevailed in the mid-19th century. The border had been moved perforce from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea into which the Ural River projects. The border between the Black Sea and the Caspian is usually placed along the crest of the Caucasus Mountains , although it is sometimes placed further north. The border between Asia and Oceania is usually placed somewhere in the Indonesia Archipelago , specifically in Eastern Indonesia . The Wallace Line separates
1554-596: The century of humiliation , with the British-supported opium trade and later Opium Wars resulting in China being forced into an unprecedented situation of importing more than it exported. Foreign domination of China was furthered by the Japanese colonial empire , which controlled some of East Asia and briefly much of Southeast Asia (which had earlier been taken over by the British, Dutch and French in
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#17327765579841628-638: The monsoons will experience more flooding. The waters around Asia are subjected to the same impacts as elsewhere, such as the increased warming and ocean acidification . There are many coral reefs in the region, and they are highly vulnerable to climate change, to the point practically all of them will be lost if the warming exceeds 1.5 °C (2.7 °F). Asia's distinctive mangrove ecosystems are also highly vulnerable to sea level rise . Asia also has more countries with large coastal populations than any other continent, which would cause large economic impacts from sea level rise. Water supplies in
1702-553: The steppes . The earliest postulated expansion out of the steppe is that of the Indo-Europeans , who spread their languages into West Asia, South Asia, and the borders of China, where the Tocharians resided. The northernmost part of Asia, including much of Siberia , was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra . These areas remained very sparsely populated. The center and
1776-767: The 17th century, the Manchu conquered China and established the Qing dynasty . The Islamic Mughal Empire (preceded by the Delhi Sultanate of the 13th to early 16th century) and the Hindu Maratha Empire controlled much of India in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. Western imperialism in Asia from the 18th to 20th centuries coincided with the Industrial Revolution in the West and
1850-528: The 1990s, with extreme poverty now below 20%; India and China's rise has coincided with growing tension between the two, with the Indo-Pacific now an actively contested area between China and counterbalancing forces. Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). Asia
1924-587: The 7th century; Islam also spread over centuries to the southern regions of India and Southeast Asia through trade along the Maritime Silk Road . The Mongol Empire conquered a large part of Asia in the 13th century, an area extending from China to Europe. Before the Mongol invasion, Song dynasty reportedly had approximately 120 million citizens; the 1300 census which followed the invasion reported roughly 60 million people. The Black Death , one of
1998-542: The Asian and Wallacea biogeographical realms, a transition zone of deep water straits between the Asian and Australian continental shelves. Weber's Line split the region in two with regard to the balance of fauna between Asian origin or Australo-Papuan origin. Wallacea's eastern boundary with Sahul is represented by the Lydekker's Line . The Maluku Islands (except the Aru Islands) are often considered to lie on
2072-606: The Asian goods traffic is carried out across the Pacific towards Los Angeles and Long Beach . The melting of the Arctic is also paving the way for new shipping routes from Northeast Asia to Europe and North America. In contrast to the sea routes, the Silk Road via the land route to Europe is on the one hand still under construction and on the other hand is much smaller in terms of scope. Intra-Asian trade, including sea trade,
2146-818: The Bering Strait, with Big Diomede in Russia and Little Diomede in the United States . The Aleutian Islands are an island chain extending westward from the Alaskan Peninsula toward Russia's Komandorski Islands and Kamchatka Peninsula . 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
2220-539: The Hittite king Tudhaliya I around 1400 BCE. Roughly contemporary Linear B documents contain the term aswia ( Mycenaean Greek : 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 , romanized: a-si-wi-ja ), seemingly in reference to captives from the same area. Herodotus used the term in reference to Anatolia and the territory of the Achaemenid Empire , in contrast to Greece and Egypt. He reports that Greeks assumed that Asia
2294-542: The Indian Ocean respectively in the late 15th century. The Russian Empire also began to expand into northwestern Asia from the 17th century, and would eventually take control of all of Siberia and most of Central Asia by the end of the 19th century. Among non-European empires, the Ottoman Empire controlled Anatolia, most of the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans from the mid 16th century onward, while in
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2368-600: The Middle East has been affected since 1948 by the Arab–Israeli conflict and American-led interventions . East Asian nations (along with Singapore in Southeast Asia) became economically prosperous with high-growth " tiger economies "; China, having undergone capitalistic reforms under Deng Xiaoping , regained its place among the top two economies of the world by the 21st century. India has also grown significantly because of economic liberalisation that started in
2442-464: The Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century led to the Middle East also being contested and partitioned by the British and French. With the end of World War II in 1945 and the wartime ruination of Europe and imperial Japan, many countries in Asia were able to rapidly free themselves of colonial rule. The independence of India came along with the carving out of a separate nation for
2516-616: The Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Asia has three main financial centers: Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. Call centers and business process outsourcing (BPOs) are becoming major employers in India and the Philippines due to the availability of a large pool of highly skilled, English-speaking workers. The increased use of outsourcing has assisted the rise of India and the China as financial centers. Due to its large and extremely competitive information technology industry, India has become
2590-504: The Philippines. China has many languages and dialects in different provinces. Many of the world's major religions have their origins in Asia, including the five most practiced in the world (excluding irreligion ), which are Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion (classified as Confucianism and Taoism), and Buddhism. Asian mythology is complex and diverse. The story of the Great Flood for example, as presented to Jews in
2664-551: The Red Sea over the Suez Canal into Mediterranean (see also: Indo-Mediterranean ), there via Haifa, Istanbul and Athens to the upper Adriatic to the northern Italian hub of Trieste with its rail connections to Central and Eastern Europe or further to Barcelona and around Spain and France to the European northern ports. A far smaller part of the goods traffic runs via South Africa to Europe . A particularly significant part of
2738-580: The U.S. state of Alaska as well as the United States itself to be considered a transcontinental state. The Aleutian Islands are sometimes associated with Oceania, owing to their status as remote Pacific islands, and their proximity to the Pacific Plate. This is extremely rare however, due to their non-tropical biogeography, as well as their inhabitants , who have historically been related to Indigenous Americans . St. Lawrence Island in
2812-673: The US as the largest economy in the world for a day, after the Japanese currency reached a record high of 79 yen /US$ . Economic growth in Asia since World War II to the 1990s had been concentrated in Japan as well as the four regions of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore located in the Pacific Rim , known as the Asian tigers , which are now all considered developed economies, having among
2886-2262: The Year Achievements by nation Beach handball World Championships World Games International World Championships Men's U-21 Women's U-20 Men's U-19 Women's U-18 University Wheelchair Men's Field Handball Women's Field Handball Youth Olympics Summer Universiade Emerging Nations IHF Inter-Continental Trophy Arab Games Mediterranean Games [REDACTED] Africa African Championships Men Women Men's Junior Women's Junior Men's Youth Women's Youth African Games North America and Caribbean North American and Caribbean Championship Men Women Pan American Games ( Junior ) Central American and Caribbean Games Central American Games South & Central America South & Central American Championships Men Women Men's Junior Women's Junior Men's Youth Women's Youth Pan American Games ( Junior ) South American Games Bolivarian Games Asia Asian Championships Men Women Men's Junior Women's Junior Men's Youth Women's Youth Beach Beach Youth Asian Games Europe European Championships Men Women Men's U-20 Women's U-19 Men's U-18 Women's U-17 Beach Men Beach Women Wheelchair Handball Nations' Tournament European Open Oceania Oceania Championships Senior Junior Youth Beach Pacific Cup French Pacific Championship Defunct Goodwill Games Intercontinental Cup Pan American Championships Men Women Men's Junior Women's Junior Men's Youth Women's Youth Beach Beach Youth v t e International men's handball IAHF IHF Summer Olympic Games IHF World Championship IHF Field World Championship IHF Emerging Nations Championship IHF World Player of
2960-567: The area of multinational corporations , but increasingly the PRC and India are making significant inroads. Many companies from Europe, North America, South Korea and Japan have operations in Asia's developing countries to take advantage of its abundant supply of cheap labour and relatively developed infrastructure. According to Citigroup in 2011, 9 of 11 Global Growth Generators countries came from Asia driven by population and income growth. They are Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mongolia,
3034-634: The border of southeast Asia, with the Aru Islands and Western New Guinea , to the east of the Lydekker's Line, being wholly part of Oceania, as both lie on the Australian continental plate. Culturally, the Wallacea region denoted the transition between Austronesian and Melanesian people , with varying degrees of intermixing between the two. In general, the further west and coastal a region is,
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3108-1406: The combined efforts of emperors and divinities to control. The Abrahamic religions including Judaism , Christianity , Islam , Druze faith , and Baháʼí Faith originated in West Asia. Asian Men%27s Handball Championship Official competition for senior national handball teams of Asia For the women's tournament, see Asian Women's Handball Championship . AHF Asian Men's Handball Championship Current season, competition or edition: [REDACTED] 2024 Asian Men's Handball Championship Sport Handball Founded 1976 First season 1977 Administrator Asian Handball Federation Countries AHF Members Headquarters Kuwait City ( Kuwait ) Continent AHF ( Asia ) Most recent champion(s) [REDACTED] Qatar (6th title) Most titles [REDACTED] South Korea (9 titles) Qualification World Men's Handball Championship TV partner(s) Al-Kass Sports Channel Sponsor(s) Al-Kass Sports Channel SK Group Molten Corporation Gerflor Level on pyramid 1 Related competitions Asian Women's Handball Championship Tournament format Round-robin and then knockout stage Official website Website The Asian Men's Handball Championship
3182-432: The continent of Asia". Geographically, Asia is the major eastern constituent of the continent of Eurasia with Europe being a northwestern peninsula of the landmass. Asia, Europe and Africa make up a single continuous landmass— Afro-Eurasia —and share a common continental shelf . Almost all of Europe and a major part of Asia sit atop the Eurasian Plate , adjoined on the south by the Arabian and Indian Plate and with
3256-443: The cultural borders of its various types of constituents. From the time of Herodotus, a minority of geographers have rejected the three-continent system (Europe, Africa, Asia) on the grounds that there is no substantial physical separation between them. For example, Sir Barry Cunliffe , the emeritus professor of European archeology at Oxford, argues that Europe has been geographically and culturally merely "the western excrescence of
3330-537: The dethroning of India and China as the world's foremost economies. The British Empire first became dominant in South Asia, with most of the region being conquered by British traders in the late 18th and early 19th centuries before falling under direct British rule after a failed 1857 revolt ; the 1869 completion of the Suez Canal , which increased British access to India, went on to further European influence over Africa and Asia. Around this time, Western powers started to dominate China in what later became known as
3404-2521: The difference to the geographical borders of Asia . An Asian Championship is a top level international sports competition between Asian athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs . List of Championships (Summer Olympic Sports) [ edit ] Aquatics Asian Swimming Championships Archery Asian Archery Championships Athletics Asian Athletics Championships Badminton Badminton Asia Championships Baseball and Softball Asian Baseball Championship Women's Baseball Asian Cup Asian Men's Softball Championship Asian Women's Softball Championship Basketball FIBA Asia Cup FIBA Women's Asia Cup Boxing Asian Amateur Boxing Championships Canoeing Asian Canoeing Championships Chess Asian Chess Championship Cricket Asia Cup Women's Asia Cup Cycling Asian Cycling Championships Fencing Asian Fencing Championships Field hockey Men's Hockey Asia Cup Women's Hockey Asia Cup Football AFC Asian Cup AFC Women's Asia Cup Gymnastics Asian Gymnastics Championships Handball Asian Men's Handball Championship Asian Women's Handball Championship Judo Asian Judo Championships Karate Asian Karate Championships Rowing Asian Rowing Championships Rugby Asia Rugby Championship Asia Rugby Women's Championship Asian Rugby Sevens Series Asian Rugby Women's Sevens Series Sailing Asian Championships in Sailing Shooting Asian Shooting Championships Sport climbing IFSC Climbing Asian Championships Snooking ACBS Asian Snooker Championship Surfing Asian Surfing Championships Table tennis Asian Table Tennis Championships Taekwondo Asian Taekwondo Championships Tennis Asian Championships Volleyball Asian Men's Volleyball Championship Asian Women's Volleyball Championship Asian Beach Volleyball Championships Water polo Asian Water Polo Championship Weightlifting Asian Weightlifting Championships Wrestling Asian Wrestling Championships See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Asia portal [REDACTED] Sport portal Asian Games ,
3478-420: The east of the Suez Canal separating it from Africa; and to the east of the Turkish straits , the Ural Mountains and Ural River , and to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black seas, separating it from Europe. Since the concept of Asia derives from the term for the eastern region from a European perspective, Asia is the remaining vast area of Eurasia minus Europe. Therefore, Asia
3552-439: The easternmost part of Siberia (east of the Chersky Range ) on the North American Plate . The term "Asia" is believed to originate in the Bronze Age toponym Assuwa ( Hittite : 𒀸𒋗𒉿 , romanized: aš-šu-wa ) which originally referred only to a portion of northwestern Anatolia . The term appears in Hittite records recounting how a confederation of Assuwan states including Troy unsuccessfully rebelled against
3626-428: The end of 2011, there were 18,000 Asian people mainly in Southeast Asia, China and Japan who have at least $ 100 million in disposable assets, while North America with 17,000 people and Western Europe with 14,000 people. With growing Regional Tourism with domination of Chinese visitors, MasterCard has released Global Destination Cities Index 2013 with 10 of 20 are dominated by Asia and Pacific Region Cities and also for
3700-413: The equatorial south via the hot deserts in parts of West Asia , Central Asia and South Asia , temperate areas in the east and the continental centre to vast subarctic and polar areas in North Asia . The boundary between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal , the Gulf of Suez , the Red Sea , and the Bab-el-Mandeb . This makes Egypt a transcontinental country , with the Sinai peninsula in Asia and
3774-414: The first time a city of a country from Asia ( Bangkok ) set in the top-ranked with 15.98 million international visitors. East Asia had by far the strongest overall Human Development Index (HDI) improvement of any region in the world, nearly doubling average HDI attainment over the past 40 years, according to the report's analysis of health, education and income data. China, the second highest achiever in
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#17327765579843848-446: The highest GDP per capita in Asia. Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum , forests , fish , water , rice , copper and silver . Manufacturing in Asia has traditionally been strongest in East and Southeast Asia, particularly in China, Taiwan , South Korea, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Singapore. Japan and South Korea continue to dominate in
3922-478: The late 19th century), New Guinea and the Pacific islands ; Japan's domination was enabled by its rapid rise that had taken place during the Meiji era of the late 19th century, in which it applied industrial knowledge learned from the West and thus overtook the rest of Asia. One significant influence on Japan had been the United States, which had begun projecting influence across the Pacific after its early-to-mid-19th century westward expansion . The breakup of
3996-460: The lowlands did not have enough open grasslands to support a large equestrian force; for this and other reasons, the nomads who conquered states in China, India, and the Middle East often found themselves adapting to the local, more affluent societies. The Islamic Caliphate 's defeats of the Byzantine and Persian empires led to West Asia and southern parts of Central Asia and western parts of South Asia under its control during its conquests of
4070-551: The majority of South Asian Muslims , which in 1971 further split into the countries Pakistan and Bangladesh ; Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union strained relations between India and Pakistan and affected Asia more generally. The end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union by 1991 saw the independence of the five modern Central Asian countries. Some Arab countries took economic advantage of massive oil deposits that were discovered in their territory, becoming globally influential, though stability in
4144-412: The most devastating pandemics in human history, is thought to have originated in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road . European involvement in Asia became more significant from the Age of Discovery onward, with Iberian-sponsored sailors such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama paving the way for new routes from Atlantic Europe to Pacific Asia and
4218-538: The northern Bering Sea belongs to Alaska and may be associated with either continent but is almost always considered part of North America, as with the Rat Islands in the Aleutian chain. At their nearest points, Alaska and Russia are separated by only 4 kilometres (2.5 miles). Geographical Asia is a cultural artifact of European conceptions of the world, beginning with the Ancient Greeks , being imposed onto other cultures, an imprecise concept causing endemic contention about what it means. Asia does not exactly correspond to
4292-416: The peripheries were mostly kept separated by mountains and deserts. The Caucasus and Himalaya mountains and the Karakum and Gobi deserts formed barriers that the steppe horsemen could cross only with difficulty. While the urban city dwellers were more advanced technologically and socially, in many cases they could do little in a military aspect to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe. However,
4366-499: The regional division of Asia. The following subdivision into regions is used, among others, by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). This division of Asia into regions by the United Nations is done solely for statistical reasons and does not imply any assumption about political or other affiliations of countries and territories. Asia has extremely diverse climate features. Climates range from Arctic and subarctic in Siberia to tropical in southern India and Southeast Asia. It
4440-414: The remainder of the country in Africa. The threefold division of the Old World into Africa, Asia, and Europe has been in use since the 6th century BCE, due to Greek geographers such as Anaximander and Hecataeus . 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
4514-435: The single largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the 21st century, while India is the third-largest. As a whole, Asia currently accounts for 36% of world's primary energy consumption, which is expected to increase to 48% by 2050. By 2040, it is also expected to account for 80% of the world's coal and 26% of the world's natural gas consumption. While the United States remains the world's largest oil consumer, by 2050 it
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#17327765579844588-410: The stronger the Austronesian influences, and the further east and inland a region is, the stronger the Melanesian influences. The terms Southeast Asia and Oceania, devised in the 19th century, have had several vastly different geographic meanings since their inception. The chief factor in determining which islands of the Indonesian Archipelago are Asian has been the location of the colonial possessions of
4662-552: The threat of heatwaves across the entire continent. Heatwaves lead to increased mortality, and the demand for air conditioning is rapidly accelerating as the result. By 2080, around 1 billion people in the cities of South and Southeast Asia are expected to experience around a month of extreme heat every year. The impacts on water cycle are more complicated: already arid regions, primarily located in West Asia and Central Asia , will see more droughts , while areas of East , Southeast and South Asia which are already wet due to
4736-419: The top 5 being in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul . Around 68 percent of international firms have an office in Hong Kong. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the economy of China had an average annual growth rate of more than 8%. According to economic historian Angus Maddison , India had the world's largest economy during 1000 BCE and 1 CE. India was the largest economy in the world for most of
4810-533: The two millennia from the 1st until 19th century, contributing 25% of the world's industrial output. China was the largest and most advanced economy on earth for much of recorded history and shared the mantle with India. For several decades in the late twentieth century Japan was the largest economy in Asia and second-largest of any single nation in the world, after surpassing the Soviet Union (measured in net material product) in 1990 and Germany in 1968. (NB: A number of supernational economies are larger, such as
4884-412: The various empires there (not all European). Lewis and Wigen assert, "The narrowing of 'Southeast Asia' to its present boundaries was thus a gradual process." The Bering Strait and Bering Sea separate the landmasses of Asia and North America , as well as forming the international boundary between Russia and the United States. This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede Islands in
4958-435: The world from 1 to 1800 CE. China was a major economic power for much of recorded history, with the highest GDP per capita until 1500. The Silk Road became the main east–west trading route in the Asian hinterlands while the Straits of Malacca stood as a major sea route. Asia has exhibited economic dynamism as well as robust population growth during the 20th century, but overall population growth has since fallen. Asia
5032-408: The world in terms of HDI improvement since 1970, is the only country on the "Top 10 Movers" list due to income rather than health or education achievements. Its per capita income increased a stunning 21-fold over the last four decades, also lifting hundreds of millions out of income poverty. Yet it was not among the region's top performers in improving school enrollment and life expectancy. Nepal ,
5106-467: The world's population. Asia shares the landmass of Eurasia with Europe , and of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa . 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 border of Asia with Europe is a historical and cultural construct , as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. A commonly accepted division places Asia to
5180-534: The world, which is in the "very high human development" category), followed by Singapore (9), Japan (19) and South Korea (22). Afghanistan (155) ranked lowest amongst Asian countries out of the 169 countries assessed. Asia is home to several language families and many language isolates . Most Asian countries have more than one language that is natively spoken. For instance, according to Ethnologue , more than 700 languages are spoken in Indonesia, more than 400 languages spoken in India, and more than 100 are spoken in
5254-400: Was historically defined by European academics. In Sweden, five years after Peter's death, in 1730 Philip Johan von Strahlenberg published a new atlas proposing the Ural Mountains as the border of Asia. Tatishchev announced that he had proposed the idea to von Strahlenberg. The latter had suggested the Emba River as the lower boundary. Over the next century various proposals were made until
5328-766: Was home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, each of them developing around fertile river valleys. The civilizations in Mesopotamia , the Indus Valley and the Yellow River shared many similarities. These civilizations may well have exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel . Other innovations, such as writing, seem to have been developed individually in each area. Cities, states and empires developed in these lowlands. The central steppe region had long been inhabited by horse-mounted nomads who could reach all areas of Asia from
5402-477: Was named after the wife of Prometheus , but that Lydians say it was named after Asies , son of Cotys, who passed the name on to a tribe at Sardis . In Greek mythology , "Asia" ( Ἀσία or Ἀσίη ) was the name of a " Nymph or Titan goddess of Lydia". The Iliad (attributed by the ancient Greeks to Homer ) mentions two Phrygians in the Trojan War named Asios (an adjective meaning "Asian"); and also
5476-442: Was the birthplace of most of the world's mainstream religions including Hinduism , Zoroastrianism , Judaism , Jainism , Buddhism , Confucianism , Taoism , Christianity , Islam , Sikhism , and many other religions. Asia varies greatly across and within its regions with regard to ethnic groups, cultures, environments, economics, historical ties, and government systems. It also has a mix of many different climates ranging from
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