the Asia continent

hussein hamdi
2 min readJan 1, 2023

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the Asia continent

Astronomical Site of the Asian continent:

1- the astronomical site of the continent relative to the latitudes:

Asia is site between two latitude 81° north of the equator, 10° and south of the equator, i.e. Asia occupiesabout 90 latitudes , the equator passing through the south of the continent.

2- the astronomical site of a continent relative to the longitude:

The continent of Asia lies between the longitude of 26° east of the Greenwich line, 170° west of the Greenwich line, meaning that the continent of Asia extends over 196 longitude lines.

The longitude is used in determining the time difference but there is an important timing in the continent of Asia:

3- because all of these countries are on the equator, the time difference between winter and summer is very small, which makes the use of daylight saving time useless.

Geographical site of the continent of Asia:

The Indian Ocean, the Timor Sea, and the Sea of Arafura, which separated the Asian continent from that of Australia. In the south of the continent many islands, such as Indonesia, which is an archipelago of islands in southern Asia, the Philippines and Japan, in addition to the Malay Peninsula and the Indochina Peninsula

The area of the continent of Asia is 44.2 million square kilometers, and thus the continent of Asia is the largest continent in terms of area. There is the largest closed sea, which is the Caspian Sea, and there are countries across islands such as Japan and the Philippines, and there are peninsulas like the Arabian Peninsula and the peninsula of Malawi And it has small countries, such as Singapore and Bahrain, with 47 countries, the largest of them in terms of area, Russia, China and India, and yet in Russia, most of its land is on the Asian side, but politically it follows Europe because the capital Moscow is located in the European part of Russia.

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