ASIA :

POPULATION &
PEOPLE

By :
Vyom Maheshwari
6 A
th

Stock no: 10
 POPULATION
► Asia is the world's largest and most
populous continent. It covers 8.6% of
the Earth's total surface area (or
29.9% of its land area) and, with over
4 billion people, it contains more than
60% of the world's current
human population. Chiefly in the
eastern and northern hemispheres,
Asia is traditionally defined as part of
the landmass of Eurasia—with the
western portion of the latter occupied
by Europe—lying east of the
Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains
 CENTRAL ASIA
►
Country
population
►  Kazakhstan : 15,666,533
► Kyrgyzstan : 5,356,869
►  Tajikistan : 7,211,884
► Turkmenistan : 5179573
► Uzbekistan : 26268441
 Eastern Asia

► People's Republic of China :

1,322,044,605
► Hong Kong : 7,903,334
► Macau : 460,823
► Republic of China (Taiwan) :
22,920,946
► Japan :
127,288,628
► North Korea :
23,479,095
 Northern Asia
► Russia :140,702,092
 Southern Asia
► Afghanistan :32,738,775
► Bangladesh :153,546,901
► Bhutan :682,321
► India :1,147,995,226
► Iran :65,875,223
► Maldives : 379,174
► Nepal :29,519,114
► Pakistan :167,762,049
► Sri Lanka :21,128,773
 Western Asia
► Armenia :2,968,586
► Azerbaijan :3,845,127
►  Bahrain :718,306
►  Cyprus :792,604
► Gaza :1,537,269
► Georgia :4,630,841
► Iraq :28,221,181
► Israel :7,112,359
► Jordan :6,198,677
► Kuwait :2,596,561
► Lebanon :3,971,941
► Oman :3,311,640
► Qatar :928,635
► Saudi Arabia :23,513,330
► Syria :19,747,586
► Turkey :71,892,807
► United Arab Emirates:4,621,399
► Palestine :2,611,904
► Yemen :23,013,376
 Total Population
► Totalpopulation of Asia comprising of
eastern Asia , western Asia , southern
Asia and northern Asia is
4,050,404,193 .
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 Asian People
► Asian or Asiatic people (the Asian Continental
Ancestry Group) is a demonym for people from
Asia. However, the use of the term varies by
country and person, often referring to people from
a particular region or subregion of Asia.[3][4]
Though it may be based on residence, it is also
often considered a race[5] or an ethnicity.
► In the United States, Canada, and Australia, the
term refers most commonly to people of
predominantly East Asian, South Asian, and
Southeast Asian ancestry; however, in the
United Kingdom and Anglophone Africa, the term
refers most commonly to South Asians.In other
countries, the term is applied to all people from
Asia in general. In the US, however, Middle Eastern
and Central Asian people are usually not considered
Asian peoples.
 West Asians
► Clovis Maksoud, Director for the
Organization of Global South, argues that
the term "Middle East" is a Eurocentric term
denoting the region between Europe and
East Asia, because it denies the Middle
East's connection with Muslim North Africa.
In English parlance, Western Asians like
Jews, Iranians and Arabs, and the Central
Asians of the former Soviet Republics are
not referred to as "Asian" by United States
government agencies. The Canadian
government uses "West Asian" in its
statistics; however people from the Arab
countries are counted in a separate "Arab"
category.
 Pacific Islanders
► Normal usage Asian does not refer to
the people from the Pacific Islands
who are usually called Pacific Islanders
.The term "Asians and Pacific
Islanders" or "Asia/Pacific" was used
on the 1990 US Census. However, in
the 2000 US Census, the Asian or
Pacific Islander category was
separated into two categories, "Asian"
and "Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific