Countries of Asia.

Asia is the largest and most populous continent on Earth, spanning 49 sovereign states across roughly 44.6 million square kilometres — from the frozen tundra of Siberia to the tropical archipelagos of Southeast Asia, from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey to the Pacific shores of Japan. Home to more than 4.7 billion people, Asia contains the world's two most populous nations (China and India), the planet's highest mountain range (the Himalayas), and some of its oldest continuous civilizations.

No other continent matches Asia's diversity of writing systems. The Arabic script is used from the Levant through the Persian Gulf to Pakistan. Devanagari serves Hindi, Sanskrit and Nepali. The CJK characters of Chinese, Japanese kanji and Korean hanja represent the world's most complex logographic traditions. Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Georgian, Armenian, Tibetan, Bengali, Tamil and Sinhala each use their own unique alphabet or abugida. This extraordinary variety means that Asia's 49 countries write their own names in at least a dozen fundamentally different scripts.

Geographically, Asia is commonly divided into five major subregions: East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan), South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives), Southeast Asia (from Myanmar to the Philippines and Indonesia), Central Asia (Kazakhstan through Tajikistan) and West Asia (the Middle East and Caucasus). Below you will find every Asian country listed alphabetically with its flag, native name and ISO code.