Click each Asian country on the map. How many of the 46 can you place?
Asia is the largest and most populous continent on Earth, stretching from Turkey and the Mediterranean coast in the west to the Pacific shores of Japan and the Philippines in the east. It holds the highest point on the planet — Everest — and the lowest — the Dead Sea. Between them lie the frozen Siberian taiga, the deserts of Arabia and the Gobi, the rice paddies of Southeast Asia, the megacities of China, India and Japan, and some of the most remote wilderness left on Earth.
The continent's borders with Europe are famously blurry: the Ural Mountains, the Caucasus, and the Turkish Straits are the conventional dividing lines, but culture, history and politics have always made the boundary more of a suggestion than a fact. Central Asian nations that were once Soviet republics carry their own distinct identity, while the Middle East — technically western Asia — often feels like a world apart from the Far East.
From the tech hubs of South Korea and Singapore to the ancient temples of Cambodia and Myanmar, Asia is a continent where the old and the new collide at every turn. Mastering its map is a serious challenge — and a deeply rewarding one.
