Asia Political Map - Vinyl - A0 Size 84.1 x 118.9 cm

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Asia is the largest of the world's continents, it constitutes nearly one-third of Earth's landmass and is lying entirely north of the equator, except for some Southeast Asian islands. Buck, an honorary Asian Nobel laureate, having spent considerable time in China as the daughter of missionaries, and based many of her novels, namely The Good Earth (1931) and The Mother (1933), as well as the biographies of her parents for their time in China, The Exile and Fighting Angel, all of which earned her the Literature prize in 1938. S. copyright protection (see Title 17 of the United States Code) or any other restrictions in the Map Collection materials. For this option, your map will be supplied laminated, mounted on a metal backing and framed in a stylish brushed aluminium frame, with a 16mm edging.

More than four of every five children of school age in Nepal now attend primary school, compared to just one in five 40 years ago. Nonetheless, Asia, the most populous of the continents, contains some three-fifths of the world’s people. The region is host to various cats, several species of leopards like the clouded leopard, the Asian golden cat, and the Asian tiger. Covers the area north to the Soviet Union and China, south to Sri Lanka, west to Afghanistan, and east to Burma. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him".In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; [115] it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively. The culture of Asia is a diverse blend of customs and traditions that have been practiced by the various ethnic groups of the continent for centuries.

The government-owned Abraj Al-Bait Tower overlooking the Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, with the Kaaba, the holiest site for Muslims, at the center. The Prambanan Temple Compounds is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The map shows the Indomalaya ecozone, one of the eight great ecozones (or biogeographic realms) that cover Earth's surface.The Baháʼí Faith originated in Asia, in Iran (Persia), and spread from there to the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, India, and Burma during the lifetime of Bahá'u'lláh. The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia.

It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Foreign domination of China was furthered by the Empire of Japan, which controlled most of East Asia and much of Southeast Asia, New Guinea and the Pacific islands during this era; Japan's domination was enabled by its rapid rise that had taken place during the Meiji era of the late 19th century, in which it applied industrial knowledge learned from the West and thus overtook the rest of Asia. Each nation's vulnerability was calculated using 42 socio, economic and environmental indicators, which identified the likely climate change impacts during the next 30 years.Another Nobel Peace Prize winner is Aung San Suu Kyi from Burma for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship in Burma.

India was the largest economy in the world for most of the two millennia from the 1st until 19th century, contributing 25% of the world's industrial output. A survey carried out in 2010 by global risk analysis farm Maplecroft identified 16 countries that are extremely vulnerable to climate change. Optional pins and tags allow you to further personalise your map, for example pinpoint and tag places visited, would like to visit, places you've lived etc. The most active place on Earth for tropical cyclone activity lies northeast of the Philippines and south of Japan. Confucianism is found predominantly in mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and in overseas Chinese populations.Another possible explanation is that it was originally a local name given to the plains of Ephesus, which ancient Greeks and Romans extended to refer first to Anatolia (contemporary Asia Minor, which is the western extreme of mainland Asia), and then to the known world east of the Mediterranean Sea. Our Silk Art paper is a superior colour reproduction finish and provides high quality photo results. Main articles: Economy of Asia, List of Asian countries by GDP, List of countries in Asia-Pacific by GDP (nominal), and List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP) Singapore has one of the busiest container ports in the world and is the world's fourth largest foreign exchange trading center.