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Latest revision as of 20:08, 22 January 2008
Asia, the largest of the earth's seven continents, lying almost entirely in the northern hemisphere. With outlying islands, it covers an estimated 44,936,000 sq km (17,350,000 sq mi), or about one-third of the world's total land area. Its peoples account for three-fifths of the world's population; in the mid-1990s Asia had an estimated 3.46 billion inhabitants.