See soorce fer Aisie

{{Infobox continent
|title               = Asie
|image               = [[File:Asia (orthographic projection).svg|220px]]
|area                = {{convert|44579000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}<ref name=NG264>{{cite book |publisher=National Geographic Society (U.S.) |title=National Geographic Family Reference Atlas of the World |location=Washington, D.C. |year=2006 |page=264}}</ref>
|population          = {{UN_Population|Asia}} ([[Leet o continents bi population|1st]]){{UN_Population|ref}}
|density = 100/km<sup>2</sup> (260/sq mi)
|GDP_nominal         = $27.2 trillion (2016, [[Leet o continents bi GDP (nominal)|1st]])
|GDP_PPP             = $55.3 trillion (2016, 1st) 
|GDP_per_capita      = $5,635 (2016, [[Leet o continents bi GDP (nominal)#GDP per capita .28nominal.29 bi continents|5t]])<ref>{{cite web|title=IMF (WEO April 2017 Edition) GDP nominal per capita - international dollar|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx}}</ref> 
|demonym             = [[Asie fowk|Asie]]
|countries           = 49 UN members 6 ither states
|list_countries      = Leet o sovereign states an dependent territories in Asie
|dependencies        =
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| list_style = text-align:left;
| 1 = [[Akrotiri an Dhekelia]] | 2 = [[Breetish Indie Ocean Territory]] | 3 = [[Christmas Island]] | 4 = [[Cocos (Keeling) Islands]] | 5 = Hong Kong | 6 = [[Macau]]
}}
|unrecognized        =
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| list_style = text-align:left;
| 1 = [[Abkhazie]] | 2 = [[Nagorno-Karabakh]] | 3 = [[Northren Cyprus]] | 4 = [[Sooth Ossetie]]| 5 = [[Taiwan]]}}
|languages = [[Leids o Asie|Leet o leids]]
|time = [[UTC+2]] tae [[UTC+12]]
|internet = [[.asia]]
|cities =[[Leet o metropolitan auries in Asie|Metropolitan auries o Asie]]<br>[[Leet o ceeties in Asie]]
{{Collapsible list
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| 1 = {{flagicon|Thailand}} [[Bangkok]] <br />
{{flagicon|China}} [[Beijing]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Busan]] <br />
{{flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Chittagong]] <br />
{{flagicon|India}} [[Delhi]] <br />
{{flagicon|Bangladesh}} [[Dhaka]] <br />
{{flagicon|Qatar}} [[Doha]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|UAE}} [[Dubai]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|China}} [[Guangzhou]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Hanoi]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|Vietnam}} [[Ho Chi Minh]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|Hong Kong}} [[Hong Kong]]<br />
{{flagicon|Indonesia}} [[Jakarta]] <br />
{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Karachi]]<br />
{{flagicon|Malaysia}} [[Kuala Lumpur]] <br />
{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Manila]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|India}} [[Mumbai]] <br />
{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Osaka]] <br /> 
{{flagicon|North Korea}} [[Pyongyang]] <br />
{{flagicon|Saudi Arabia}} [[Riyadh]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|China}} [[Shanghai]]<br /> 
{{flagicon|China}} [[Shenzhen]] <br />
{{flagicon|Singapore}} [[Singapore]] <br />
{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Seoul]] <br />
{{flagicon|Iran}} [[Tehran]] <br />
{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Tokyo]] <ref>[http://www.demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf World urban areas]</ref>
}}
}}
'''Asie''' is [[Yird]]'s mucklest an maist populous [[continent]], locatit primarily in the [[Eastren Hemisphere|Eastren]] an [[Northren Hemisphere|Northren]] [[Hemisphere o the Yird|Hemispheres]]. It shares the continental laundmass o [[Eurasie]] wi the continent o [[Europe]] an the continental laundmass o [[Afro-Eurasie]] wi baith Europe an [[Africae]]. Asie covers an aurie o {{convert|44,579,000|km2|sqmi}}, aboot 30% o Yird's tot laund aurie an 8.7% o the Yird's tot surface aurie. The continent, that haes lang been hame tae the majority o the [[human population]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The World at Six Billion |url=https://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbillion.htm |publisher=UN Population Division |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042434/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbillion.htm |archivedate=March 5, 2016 |deadurl=no}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160101220025/http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf Table 2]</ref> wis the steid o mony o the [[first ceevilisation]]s. Asie is notable for nae anly its oweraw muckle size an population, but an aa dense an muckle settlements, as weel as vast barely populatit regions. Its {{#expr:{{replace|{{UN_Population|Asia}}|,||}}/1e9 round 1}} billion fowk constitute aboot 60% o the warld's population.

In general terms, Asie is boondit on the east bi the Paceefic Ocean, on the sooth bi the Indie Ocean an on the north bi the Arctic Ocean. The wastren boondar wi Europe is a historical an [[cultural construct]], as thare is na clear pheesical an geografical separation atween them. The maist commonly acceptit boondaries place Asie tae the east o the [[Suez Canal]], the [[Ural River]], an the [[Ural Moontains]], an sooth o the [[Caucasus Moontains]] an the [[Caspian Sea|Caspian]] an [[Black Sea]]s.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book |title=National Geographic Atlas of the World |edition=7th |year=1999 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=[[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] |isbn=978-0-7922-7528-2}} "Europe" (pp. 68–9); "Asia" (pp. 90–1): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea with its outlets, the Bosporus and Dardanelles."</ref>

Cheenae an Indie alternatit in bein the [[Leet o regions bi past GDP (PPP)|lairgest economies in the warld]] frae 1 tae 1800 CE. Cheenae wis a major economic pouer an attractit mony tae the east,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/nalapat.html |title=Professor M.D. Nalapat. Ensuring China's "Peaceful Rise". Accessed January 22, 2016. |publisher= |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110045822/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/nalapat.html |archivedate=10 January 2010 |df= }} {{Cite web |url=http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/nalapat.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-02-04 |archive-date=2010-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110045822/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/SRR/Volume14/nalapat.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED460052&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED460052|title=Dahlman, Carl J; Aubert, Jean-Eric. China and the Knowledge Economy: Seizing the 21st Century. WBI Development Studies. World Bank Publications. Accessed January 22, 2016|website=Eric.ed.gov|accessdate=9 November 2017|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304235359/http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED460052&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED460052|archivedate=4 March 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_PNTJQTR |title=The Real Great Leap Forward. The Economist. Sept 30, 2004 |work=The Economist |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227234147/http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_PNTJQTR |archivedate=27 December 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>[http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=China+the+world%E2%80%99s+largest+economy+for+18+of+the+past+20+centuries&y=6&aje=false&x=14&id=050926000484&ct=0] {{dead link|date=August 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and for many the legendary wealth and prosperity of the ancient culture of India personified Asia,<ref>[http://www.indianscience.org/essays/22-%20E--Gems%20&%20Minerals%20F.pdf]  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120220244/http://www.indianscience.org/essays/22-%20E--Gems%20%26%20Minerals%20F.pdf |date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> attractin European commerce, exploration an colonialism. The accidental diskivery o Americae bi Columbus in sairch for Indie demonstrates this deep fascination. The [[Silk Road]] becam the main East-Wast treddin route in the Asie hinterlands while the [[Straits o Malacca]] stuid as a major sea route. Asie haes exhibited economic dynamism (pairteecularly East Asie) as weel as robust population growthe in the 20t century, but oweraw population growthe haes syne fawen.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=346605 |title=Like herrings in a barrel |journal=The Economist |date=23 December 1999 |issue=Millennium issue: Population |publisher=The ''Economist'' online, The Economist Group |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104100155/http://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=346605 |archivedate=4 January 2010 |df=dmy-all }}.</ref> Asie wis the birthplace o maist o the warld's mainstream releegions includin Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, [[Confucianism]], Taoism (or Daoism), [[Jainism]], [[Sikhism]], [[Zoroastranism]], as weel as mony ither releegions.

Gien its size an diversity, the concept o Asie—a [[toponymy|name]] datin back tae [[clessical antiquity]]—mey actually hae mair tae dae wi [[human geografie]] nor [[pheesical geografie]].<ref name=McG-H>{{cite web |title=Asia |url=http://accessscience.com/abstract.aspx?id=054800&referURL=http%3a%2f%2faccessscience.com%2fcontent.aspx%3fid%3d054800 |work=AccessScience |publisher=McGraw-Hill |accessdate=26 July 2011 |archivedate=27 November 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127141127/http://accessscience.com/abstract.aspx?id=054800&referURL=http%3A%2F%2Faccessscience.com%2Fcontent.aspx%3Fid%3D054800 |deadurl=yes |df= }} {{Cite web |url=http://accessscience.com/abstract.aspx?id=054800&referURL=http%3A%2F%2Faccessscience.com%2Fcontent.aspx%3Fid%3D054800 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-02-04 |archive-date=2011-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127141127/http://accessscience.com/abstract.aspx?id=054800&referURL=http%3A%2F%2Faccessscience.com%2Fcontent.aspx%3Fid%3D054800 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Asie varies greatly athort an within [[Regions o Asie|its regions]] wi regaird tae ethnic groups, culturs, environments, economics, historical ties an govrenment seestems. It an aa haes a mix o mony different climates rangin frae the equatorial sooth via the het desert in the [[Middle East]], temperate auries in the east an the <!-- extremely --> continental centre tae vast subarctic an polar auries in [[Siberie]].

== See an aa ==
* [[Asie apes]]
* [[Asie Minor]]
* [[Asie Gemmes]]
* [[Asie influenza]]
* [[Asie cholera]]

==References==
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