Asia.

• Position: IN THE NEWS 2018 - Geographic overview

Asia COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL POP.% POPULATION POP. RISE %/YEAR Afghanistan 252,072 24 Kabul 35,545,000 2.4 Armenia 11,484 64 Yerevan 2,980,000 -0.2 Azerbaijan 33,436 53 Baku 9,863,000 0.9 Bangladesh 56,977 34 Dhaka 162,911,000 1.1 Bhutan 14,824 39 Thimphu 781,000 1.1 Brunei 2,226 77 Bandar Seri 429,000 1.6 Begawan Cambodia 69,898 21 Phnom Penh 15,857,000 1.5 China 3,696,100 57 Beijing 1,386,773,000 0.4 Georgia 26,911 57 Tbilisi 3,912,000 0 India 1,222,550 33 New Delhi 1,352,600,000 1.2 Indonesia 737,815 54 Jakarta 263,991,000 0.9 Japan 145,898 94 Tokyo 126,727,000 -0.2 Kazakhstan 1,052,089 55 Astana 18,014,000 1.0 Korea, North 47,399 61 Pyongyang 25,491,000 0.5 Korea, South 38,486 83 Seoul 51,446,000 0.5 Kyrgyzstan 77,199 34 Bishkek 6,211,000 1.1 Laos 91,429 40 Vientiane 6,991,000 1.5 Malaysia 127,526 75 Kuala Lumpur 31,624,000 1.4 Maldives 115 46 Male 421,000 -0.1 Mongolia 603,908 67 Ulaanbaatar 3,183,000 1.2 Myanmar 261,228 35 Naypyidaw (Burma) 53,371,000 0.9 Nepal 56,827 20 Kathmandu 29,384,000 1.2 Pakistan 340,499 39 Islamabad 199,309,000 1.4 Philippines 115,831 45 Manila 105,012,000 1.6 Russia (11) 6,601,700 74 Moscow 146,801,000 -0.1 Singapore 277 100 Singapore 5,681,000 1.8 Sri Lanka 25,332 18 Colombo 21,362,000 0.8 Taiwan 13,973 77 Taipei 23,579,000 0.2 Tajikistan 55,251 27 Dushanbe 8,831,000 1.6 Thailand 198,117 49 Bangkok 66,061,000 0.3 Timor-Leste 5,773 33 Dili (East Timor) 1,298,000 2.4 Turkmenistan 189,657 50 Ashgabat 5,778,000 1.1 Uzbekistan 172,742 37 Tashkent 32,397,000 0.9 Vietnam 127,882 33 Hanoi 93,714,000 0.9 COUNTRY LANGUAGES POLITICAL SYSTEM & HEAD OF GOVERNMENT Afghanistan Pashto, Afghan Presidential-parliamentary Persian, Turkic, system (transitional); others President Ashraf Ghani Armenia Armenian, Russian, Presidential-parliamentary others system; President Serzh Sargsyan Azerbaijan Azeri, Russian, Dominant party; President Armenian, others Ilham Aliyev Bangladesh Bengali, English Presidential-parliamentary democracy; Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed Bhutan Dzongkha, Constitutional monarchy; Sharchhopka, others Prime Minister Lyonchen Tshering Tobgay Brunei Malay, English, Monarchy; Sir Hassanal Chinese Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah Cambodia Khmer, French, Dominant party; Prime English Minister Hun Sen China Mandarin, other Communist one-party state; Chinese languages, President Xi Jinping other languages Georgia Georgian, Russian, Presidential-parliamentary Armenian, Azeri, democracy; President Giorgi...