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Asia.

You have chosen Asia? This mysterious region draws to itself like a magnet of people from all corners of the earth - its amazing history, the divine nature, distinctive flavor, which create ideal conditions for recreation and travel.

Tours to Sri Lanka, UAE, Turkey, China, Bali, Israel. Holidays in Asia will give you a unique opportunity to see and feel the rose and disappeared entire civilization, to plunge into the maelstrom of exotic fantasy and excitement, try the fantastic Asian SPA-procedures, to meet with the world famous diving in the waters around the Asian shore. If you're dreaming of a magical vacation at this fashionable continent or planning a business trip to Asia, you will for us.

Asia - the largest continent of the Old World, a third of the total land area of ​​the world, the cradle of the human race and the keeper of the most ancient historical memories, is all its land mass in the northern half of the eastern hemisphere, crossing the equator only its south-eastern group of islands and taking a small part in the Western Hemisphere on three sides by the ocean and to the west is connected to Europe and Africa. The surface of the Asian continent extends to 41441000 km ², the surface of the islands to 3131250 km ², a total of 44572250 km ².

Asia washed by the Arctic, Indian and Pacific oceans, as well as - in the west - the inland seas of the Atlantic Ocean (Sea of ​​Azov, Black, Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean). In this case, there are large areas of inland drainage - Caspian and Aral seas, Lake Balkhash Lake Baikal and other volume contained fresh water lakes in the world superior to all, in the Baikal holds 20% of the world's fresh water (without ice). The Dead Sea is the world's deepest tectonic depression (-405 meters below sea level). Coast of Asia as a whole dissected relatively weak, allocated large peninsula - Asia Minor, Arabia, Hindustan, Korean, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Taimyr, and others near the coast of Asia - the largest islands (Greater Sunda, Novosibirsk, Sakhalin, the Severnaya Zemlya, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hainan, Sri Lanka, Japan, etc.), occupying a total area of ​​more than 2 million km ².

Asia's population is about 3 billion 934 million people. (2005), or 60.4% of the total population. Asia's population is growing at 1.1% per year. The highest rates of population growth are state-owned East Timor. Asia's population in 1950 - 1 billion 411 million, 1975 - 2,000,000,000 394,000,000, 2007 - 4,000,000,000 030,000,000 ("World Population Prospects 2006").

Border with Europe usually spend on the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains, Mugodzhary, Emba River, on the Caspian Sea, the Araks River, the Black and Marmara seas, straits of Bosporus and Dardanelles. Asia and Africa joined the Suez isthmus, from North America it separates the narrow Bering Strait.

Geopolitical boundaries Asia is somewhat different from the natural ones. It is carried out on the eastern borders of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Komi Republic, the western borders of the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, along the border of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan. In the Caucasus, Asia geopolitical boundary coincides with the Russian-Azeri and Russian-Georgian border.

At the base of Asia are four huge platform - Arabian, Indian, Chinese and Siberian. Up to ¾ of the territory is covered by mountains of the world and plateaus. East Asia - an area of ​​active volcanism. Asia is rich in various minerals (especially the - fuel and energy raw materials).

In Asia are almost all types of climate - from the Arctic in the far north to the equatorial in the south-east. In East and South-East Asian monsoon climate (within Asia is the most humid place of the Earth), while in the Eastern Siberia - continental, but on the plains of Central, Central and West Asia - the semi-arid and desert. An important role in North Asia is permafrost, which covers more than 10 million km ².

In Asia to date, in whole or in part are 50 states. Within Asia - most of the territory of Russia.

 

                                                   Sri Lanka                                                       Turkey

 

                                                    UAE                                                              Сhina

 

                                                    Bali                                                                Izrael

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