Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign country in South Asia. It has a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India in the east; Afghanistan and Iran in the west; and China in the far northeast. In the north, [...]
Iran officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name “Iran” has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia. Both “Persia” and “Iran” are used interchangeably in cultural [...]
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 approximately 4.1 billion people, it takes up 60.3% of the world’s current human population. Chiefly in the eastern and northern hemispheres, Asia is traditionally defined as part of the [...]