Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Asia is the world’s largest continent, containing more than forty countries. Asia contains some of the world’s ...

Physical maps ... In China ownership of a map indicated sovereignty over the land it depicted. Understanding the interaction between a natural environment and various human and cultural patterns is an ...

Newsweek's map below illustrates the earthquakes that took place across central and southeast Asia within the last day. The earthquakes in Myanmar will have the most significant impacts ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling ... Strabo ...

Nelson’s father, who was a geography ... to Asia where people are surprised to hear the pilot say they’ll be flying over the North Pole. When looking at a globe instead of a flat map, it ...

There are some differences in the physical environment of mainland and island Southeast Asia. The first feature of mainland geography is the long rivers ... to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is ...

Languages: English. John Feng is Newsweek's contributing editor for Asia based in Taichung, Taiwan. His focus is on East Asian politics. He has covered foreign policy and defense matters ...

The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. For centuries, Silk Road historians ...