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Bookmark or Share- Asia - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework HelpAsia’s industrialized areas, including Japan, South Korea, the island of Taiwan, and Singapore, make a wide variety of products. China and parts of South and Southeast Asia began developing their manufacturing in the late 1900s. South and Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as textiles as well as technology products such as computers.
- South Asia | Geography, Countries, Map, & History | BritannicaSouth Asia is home to one of the world’s earliest known civilizations, the Indus civilization, and today is one of the most densely populated regions on the planet.Despite a history of ethnic, linguistic, and political fragmentation, the people of the subregion are unified by a common cultural and ethical outlook; a wealth of ancient textual literature in Sanskrit, Prākrit, and regional ...
- Asia - Geologic History | BritannicaAsia - Geologic History: Asia is not only Earth’s largest continent but also its youngest and structurally most-complicated one. Although Asia’s evolution began almost four billion years ago, more than half of the continent remains seismically active, and new continental material is currently being produced in the island arc systems that surround it to the east and southeast.
- Asia | Continent, Countries, Regions, Map, & Facts | BritannicaAsia is the world’s largest and most diverse continent. It occupies the eastern four-fifths of the giant Eurasian landmass. Asia has both the highest and the lowest points on the surface of Earth, has the longest coastline of any continent, and is subject overall to the world’s widest climatic extremes.
- Asia - South Asia, Subcontinent, Culture | BritannicaAsia - South Asia, Subcontinent, Culture: South Asia, in the limited sense of the term, consists of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, peninsular India, and Sri Lanka. The Indo-Gangetic Plain is formed from the combined alluvial plains of the Indus, Ganges (Ganga), and Brahmaputra rivers, which lie in a deep marginal depression running north of and parallel to the main range of the Himalayas. It is an ...
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