 Indian Ocean 2008 |
Indian Ocean Area 1993 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
 East Asia and Oceania Political 1992 |
Greatest Extent of Japanese advance, Aug. 1942 Names in red denote major World War II Pacific Theater battles or campaigns. Source: U.S. National Park Service |
 Caucasus and Central Asia Political Map 2003 |
Caucasus and Central Asia Political Map 2000 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
 Caucasus and Central Asia Political Map 1995 |
Asia Political Map 2000 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
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Asia Political Map 1992 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
 East Asia or Eastern Asia (the latter form preferred by the United Nations) is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geo-politically, it covers about 12,000,000 km2 (4,600,000 sq mi), or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia. In some contexts, Vietnam is considered part of East Asia because of the significant Chinese cultural influence it had experienced. Sometimes Northeast Asia is used the denote Japan, North Korea, and South Korea. |
East Asia Political Map 1995 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
 Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China and Taiwan, east of India and north of Australia. The region lies on the intersection of geological plates, with heavy seismic and volcanic activity. |
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 Southeast Asia Political Map 1995 |
Southeast Asia Political Map 1992 Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
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Western Asia, West Asia, Southwest Asia or Southwestern Asia are terms that describe the westernmost portion of Asia. The terms are partly coterminous with the Middle East - which describes geographical position in relation to Western Europe rather than location within Asia. Due to this perceived Eurocentrism, international organizations such as the United Nations, have replaced Middle East and Near East with Western Asia. From a linguistic perspective, the Semitic languages of the region are Afro-Asiatic and ancient languages such as Hittite and the modern Armenian and Kurdish languages have Indo-European connections. Source: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency |
