Asia Political Map - Vinyl - A0 Size 84.1 x 118.9 cm

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He reports that Greeks assumed that Asia 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. 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. The eastern region of Asia consists of the Asian nations of China (including the special administrative regions of Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet), Japan, Mongolia, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), South Korea (Republic of Korea), and Taiwan (Republic of China).

India has grown significantly because of economic liberalisation that started in the 1990s, [67] with extreme poverty now below 20%.Milan and Rome named among the most widely visited cities in the world in the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index report". If this standard pre-pasted Wallpaper map is not quite what you're looking for then we offer a bespoke wallpaper service. The independence of India came along with the carving out of a separate nation for the majority of Indian Muslims, which today has become the countries Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The capital city of Thailand is the nation's cultural and commercial center and a major transportation hub in Southeast Asia.

West Asia is home to several geographical and historical regions, including Asia Minor or Anatolia (peninsula), the Caucasus region, the Eastern Mediterranean or the Levant, the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Armenian Highlands, the historical region of Syria, the geographical and historical region of Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, the Arabian Peninsula with the Arabian desert ecoregion, and the Iranian Highlands. 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.

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. The term "Asia" is believed to originate in the Bronze Age placename Assuwa ( Hittite: 𒀸𒋗𒉿, romanized: aš-šu-wa) which originally referred only to a portion of northwestern Anatolia. It is a two-point equidistant projection with loci at 45 degrees north, 40 degrees east; and, 30 degrees north and 110 degrees east. Jainism is found mainly in India and in overseas Indian communities such as the United States and Malaysia.Most countries do not officially recognize Taiwan as an independent country, due to China's insistence that nations cannot have official relations with both China and Taiwan. The finishes related to your map are either displayed in the "select a finish" drop down box on the product page or in the title of the product itself. Asia has the largest continental economy in the world by both GDP nominal and PPP values, and is the fastest growing economic region.

You are also able to use your map with drawing pins allowing personalisation and the ability to plan travels. The map shows the Indomalaya ecozone, one of the eight great ecozones (or biogeographic realms) that cover Earth's surface. Taiwan (35–93%), [129] [130] [131] [132] South Korea (23–50%), [133] Malaysia (19–21%), [134] Nepal (9–11%), [135] Vietnam (10–75%), [136] China (20–50%), [137] North Korea (2–14%), [138] [139] [140] and small communities in India and Bangladesh. Posidonius: The commentary, Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-521-60443-7, Posidonius (1989).

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. According to many Muslims, the term came from Ancient Egypt's Queen Asiya, the adoptive mother of Moses. Also, Mother Teresa of India and Shirin Ebadi of Iran were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of women and children. 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. Asia Cities: Ashgabat, Astana, Bangkok, Banglaore, Beijing, Bishkek, Bombay, Calcutta, Chittagong, Colombo, Dili, Dushanbe, Hanoi, Hyderabad, Indore, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kabul, Kakutsk, Kanpur, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Lanzhou, Madras, Manila, Nanchang, New Delhi, Ohaka, Patna, Phnom Penh, P'yongyang, Sapporo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Tashkent, Tokyo, Ulaanbaatar, and Yangon.