Asia is the largest and most populous continent or region,
depending on the definition. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's
total surface area, or 29.4% of its land area, and it
contains more than 60% of the world's human population.The
word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek
?s?a. This name is first attested in Herodotus, where
it refers to Anatolia; or, for the purposes of describing
the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast
to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled
as to why three women's names are used to describe one
land mass, stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia
was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the
Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who
passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis.Asia is traditionally
defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia –
with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe
– lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural
Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the
Caspian and Black Seas.
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