Asia. The largest and most populous continent on the planet, which with about 44 million km2 accounts for 8.65% of the total land area and 29.45% of the emerged land, and with its 4 billion inhabitants, 60 % of the human population. It extends over the eastern half of the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic Ocean, to the north, to the Indian Ocean, to the south. It borders, to the west, with the Ural Mountains, and to the east, with the Pacific Ocean. In the conventional division of continents, of European origin, Asia and Europe appear as two different entities for cultural and historical reasons.
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