One commonly accepted border follows the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles–Sea of Marmara–Bosporus (together known as the Turkish Straits), the Black Sea, along the watershed of the Greater Caucasus, the northwestern portion of the Caspian Sea, and along the Ural River and Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea, as mapped and listed in most atlases ...

Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world, sharing borders with Europe and Africa to its West, Oceania to its South, and North America to its East. Its North helps form part of the Arctic alongside North America and Europe.

The Arctic Ocean is the northern border. The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited.

Asia consists of 48 countries. Because Asia's borders are not finite, some countries that are located on the continent's western border are, sometimes included in Asia, and other times in Europe. These include Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Russia and Turkey are located in both Europe and Asia.

Asia shares the landmass of Eurasia with Europe, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. In general terms, it is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.

Asia is located east of the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Ural Mountains, south of the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean.

21 小时之前 · Asia is bounded by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Indian Ocean to the south, the Red Sea (as well as the inland seas of the Atlantic Ocean —the Mediterranean and the Black) to the southwest, and Europe to the west.

Asia borders Europe (which is part of the same landmass) in the west, along the Ural Mountains, and across the Caspian Sea. The continent is bounded by the Arctic Ocean in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east, and the Indian Ocean in the south.

2024年10月17日 · Asia's Borders. Asia makes up the eastern portion of the Eurasian supercontinent; Europe occupies the western portion. Asia is bordered by the Arctic, Pacific and Indian oceans, and most geographers define Asia’s western border as an irregular line that follows the Ural Mountains, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

Asia's border with Europe—which, geographically, may be regarded as a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass—lies approximately along the Urals, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus, the Black Sea, the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, and the Aegean Sea.