The People’s Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China or mainland China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world’s population. It is a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system [...]
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities (see below), also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east. It is surrounded (clockwise, from west to east) by Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and [...]
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 [...]