KCU / CCPL present Adventure Begins @ Your Library - Asia

Welcome to Asia! This is the largest of our 7 continents, home to 48 countries and over 4.5 billion people...that's over half the people in the WORLD!!!

The United Nations has divided Asia into 6 distinct subregions:

Northern: Russia/Siberia

Central: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Eastern: China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, and the Republic of Korea.

Southeastern: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.

Southern: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

Western: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, State of Palestine, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Asian Continent by subregion. Image from ResearchGate.

Although Siberia is part of the Asian continent by a strict geographical sense, it is a Russian territory, and all of Russia is assigned to Europe by the UN, so Northern Asia (Russia) will only be covered tangentially in this libguide. To learn more about Russia, refer to our sister presentation on Europe later on.