Being the biggest continent in the world, Asia includes 50 independent countries and occupies the eastern part of the single Eurasian landmass. Surrounded by the Arctic Ocean from the north, by the Pacific Ocean from the east and by the Indian Ocean from the south, it is separated from Africa by Suez Canal. The Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea separate Asia from Europe, farther the overland border runs through the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River and Ural Mountains. This boundary crosses through the territory of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, so these states are in both continents.
Armenia and Cyprus geographically are in Asia, but politically and culturally they also are considered as a part of Europe.
The largest of the Asian countries by area is Russia, which occupies about 30% of the total territory of the continent. The smallest one of the independent states is the Maldives, it is an archipelago of islands famous for its beach resorts.
The most visited by tourists country in this region is China as a huge cultural center, followed by no less popular destinations like India, Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey. (Source)
Countries in Asia listed below. Click on the country to see related events:
A
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
B
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
G
Georgia
Chronological History of Events Related to Asia
Venona Intercept from Moscow to NKVD Reveals a High-level Agent (Agent 19) who had Penetrated Roosevelt’s Inner Circle. Who is it?
From a 1995 article in the Baltimore Sun: An aggressive Soviet spy network penetrated a key strategy meeting between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II and tried to recruit friends of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, according to decoded Soviet messages released yesterday by the National Security Agency. NSA declassified 250 messages sent between Moscow and the Soviet spy headquarters ...
Did Winston Churchill Engineer a Famine in Bengal, India that Starved 3 Million men, Women, and Children to Death?
3 million people died in a Winston Churchill engineered famine. While Britain stockpiled food, even importing tens of thousands of pounds of rice from India, Churchill, knowing their dire situation, refused to send any of the food to India, choosing to stockpile until the price went up. He even chose to bypass India on food shipments from Australia, a previous stop for the ships. The sweeping ...
The 4-Day Battle of Midway Begins: An American Victory that Changed the Course of the Pacific War During WWII
Just six months after the catastrophic Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. crushed the Imperial Japanese Navy off Midway Island (about 1,300 miles northwest of Honolulu and roughly halfway between North America and Asia), sinking four of its aircraft carriers. An overwhelming armada of Japanese ships made their way across the Pacific to attack this tiny Atoll with the purpose of using the small island ...
Lt. General John L. DeWitt issued “Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry” that they “Will be Evacuated
On Wednesday, April 1, 1942, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt issued “Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry” that they “will be evacuated from the above designated area [north San Francisco] by 12 o’clock noon Tuesday, April 7th … The Civil Control Station at 1701 Van Ness Avenue will provide temporary resi,dence elsewhere …[and] transport persons … to their new residence….” Some 120,000 persons were deported from California and ...
President Roosevelt Issues Executive Order 9066 to Evacuate and Detain in Concentration Camps over 120,000 Japanese Americans
In the days and weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor, pressure mounted from politicians on the West Coast. They demanded that “something be done” about the Issei and Nisei living there. Rumors spread about Japanese Americans preparing to aid a Japanese invasion of the United States. But when the Army and FBI investigated these rumors, they found them to be false. General John L. DeWitt ...
Franklin Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech
On June 22, 1941, Socialist gang leader Hitler attacked Socialist gang leader Stalin and the usual gang war broke out. Before that date, remember, the two socialist monsters had been allies; the communists here had been pushing the line that we should stay out of the war. The day after the attack, they were screaming that the United States should help the Soviet Union. Roosevelt was ...
False Flag Attack on Pearl Harbor: Hawaii was Surprised, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt was Not!
On Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941, the Japanese launched a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor that decimated the US Pacific Fleet and forced the United States to enter WWII. That's what most of us were taught as school children... But, except for the date, it is all a myth. In reality, there was no sneak attack. The Pacific Fleet was far from destroyed. And, furthermore, the ...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Sent a Radio Message (Intercepted by Station H in Hawaii) to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo about Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
On November 24th, 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sent a radio message to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, Commander of the Pacific Striking Fleet, which read in part, "The task force, keeping its movement strictly secret and maintaining close guard against submarines and aircraft, shall advance into Hawaiian waters, and upon the very opening of hostilities shall attack the main force of the United States fleet in Hawaii and ...
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Greenlighted Surveillance Program In Hawaii Just 2 Months Before Pearl Harbor Attack
On December 18th, the FBI discreetly declassified 48 pages in a document file titled, “Pearl Harbor Attack December 7, 1941 Part 01.” In the documents, it was revealed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover greenlighted a surveillance program in Hawaii just two months before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On page 8 of the newly declassified documents, the Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in Honolulu, Robert ...
Map for a New World Order on 1941 Communist World Planning – The North American Union
In October of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, Philadelphia clock-maker Maurice Gomberg completed a communist world map of future regional unions, including a continental North American Union. The name Canada is not on that map. However, the former provinces are depicted as states, re-federated into a vast "United States of America" stretching to Greenland. Maurice Gomberg sympathized with the Communist Party of America (CPA). Interestingly, Canada's recent ...
