A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.

A township near Vicenza in the Veneto, Italy.

A hard Italian cheese similar to parmesan.

A subregion of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.

The eastern part of Asia inclusive of China, Japan, and Korea and sometimes inclusive of Mongolia and some or all of Southeast Asia and the Philippines.

A landlocked area of continental Asia comprising Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In the USSR and the modern Russia, the area is called Middle Asia (Средняя Азия).

Synonym of West Asia

The portion of Asia which sits on the Indian subcontinent.

Alternative form of Southeast Asia