Asia
other
terrestrial continent, mainly in the northeastern quadrant
Location: 35.0000, 108.0000 · Pleiades 915832
Who is recorded here
- Rhodo birth · AD 101
In art
- Ceiling fresco in the staircase of the Würzburg Residence — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1752)
- The Four Continents — Peter Paul Rubens (1615)
- The Four Continents: Asia — Jan van Kessel the Elder (1666)
- Allegory of Asia — Johann Christian Kirchner (1800)
- reliefs continents Africa, America, Asia and Europe — Johann Gottfried Schadow (1802)
About the place
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0