Geography

Asia covers an area of 44.6 million km² (17.22 million square miles), which is about 30% of all land and 8.7% of the entire planet.

As many as 25 Nobel Prize winners are from Japan.

Thirty-four islands formed an administrative center, and also houses of aristocracy.

The Kara-Bogaz-Gol forms a lagoon on the Caspian Sea.

It consists mainly of gravel-stone deserts and semi-deserts separated by dry steppes.

Due to the high pollution of the Gulf, partially associated with oil spills, many species previously found in the Gulf have now become extinct.

The Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park houses the largest variety of flora and fauna in Australia.

Lake Como (Largo di Como) is a glacial lake in Lombardy, Italy.

The town of Oia is the most photographed place on the island.

In 2003, a team of scientists applied the tests used by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 Martian landers to detect life in the Atacama region and failed to detect any signs of life in the desert soil in the Yungay region.