Asia miner

I remember years ago a female member of staff expressing her frustration "He said that the person on the phone had 'an Asian voice'. Well, we're all Asian". Indeed, there were members of staff from many different nations that were all part of Asia. And, to add to our aura of unsophisticated ethnic profiling, this was the Immigration department, where we were supposed to be informed about such things!

Not that I've ever embraced Prime Minister Keating's assertion that Australia is 'part of Asia'. We're busy being part of Australasia and Oceania.

Some sources would have it that Turkey and Cyprus are a part of Asia, but that claim has already been made for Europe (though, by all means, consider them part of Eurasia). Likewise, Egypt, which this blog has located in Africa.
(while I haven't been able to find a link to America the ensuing hegemony will take care of that)

Central Asia
Eastern Asia
Northern Asia
Southeastern Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia



Abkhazia
Afghanistan
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Cambodia
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Georgia
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
Palestinian Authority
Philippines
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

The Orient is a vanishing term referring to the East. The Middle East encompasses southwestern Asia and Egypt, though it has come to extend to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Caucasus, and North Africa.