ASIA
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. Asia is connected to Africa by the Isthmus of Suez (Egypt) and borders Europe (which is part of the same landmass) along the Ural Mountains and across the Caspian Sea.
Asia has a coastline in north at the Arctic Ocean, in east at the Pacific Ocean, and in south at the Indian Ocean.
Area: about 44,579,000 km² (17,212,000 sq mi) it covers about 30 percent of Earth's total land area.
Population: more than 4,462,676,731 (2016), about 60 percent of the world's population. 1.34 billion of these people live in China, 1.2 billion in India. Seven out of ten of the most populated countries are in Asia.
Highest Point: Sagarmatha (Chomolungma; known as Mount Everest) 8,848m (29,028 ft) Nepal.
Largest Lake: Caspian Sea (salt lake) 371 000 km² (143 250 sq mi),
Lake Baikal 31 500 km² in Siberia is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume.
Longest River: Yangtze (Yángzî Jiang, or Chang Jiang (simplified Chinese: 长江) China, 6,380 km (3,964 mi).