Talk:Asia
- What is West Asia meant to refer to?
- Usually, the term West Asia is a synonym for the Middle East, or southwest Asia. If the part of Russia west of the Ural Mountains was considered to be part of Asia, that would obviously make up a large part of (north)west Asia, but that's considered to be in Europe. Hope this helped!
The description of the seperation between Europe and Asia says "The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont...". Now, according to the page on Hellespont, that word is simply the ancient name for Dardanelles. So, shouldn't Hellespont be replaced by Bosphorus? Gyan 01:30 Apr 19, 2003 (UTC)
Can someone please make a color coded map of what they differentiate between West, Central, SW, East, North, South and SE Asia?
A term: Greater Central Asia; meaning that of Asia that the Central Asian Republics have been influenced etc, http://www.international-relations.com/wbeurasia/WBEA-2003-Lec1.htm
Cyrpus missing from the table, but included in the "Southwest asia"-region
in the table with countries Cyprus is missing (maybe becouse it is island) - this should be fixed (maybe with a note that it also is regareded as european country for xxx reasons - see the "Europe"-page)
Area of cross-continent countries
In the table with area sizes - the area for Turkey mentions the whole area of Turkey, including european part. Maybe this should change to include only the asian part. This is the Asia page, so when we list the area of some country we should list it's ASIAN territory - or at least a note should pe placed that gives explanation: Turkey total XXX sq.km = YYY asian + ZZZ european.
Other cross-continent countries have similar ommissions - Russia, Azerbaidjan, etc. - see Europe page for details. Similar case with Egypth - both asian and african territories, no distiction, no note ...
Suggest 3 possible wiki links for Asia.
An automated Wikipedia link suggester has some possible wiki link suggestions for the Asia article:
- Can link land mass: ...ned by subtracting [[Europe]] and [[Africa]] from the great land mass of [[Africa-Eurasia]]. The boundaries are vague, especially...
- Can link island nation: ...]], which comprises part of the nation of [[Turkey]] * The island nation of [[Cyprus]] in the [[Mediterranean Sea]].... (link to section)
- Can link West Bank and Gaza Strip: ...uded, although they can also be considered part of Europe. West Bank and Gaza Strip are not listed separately, but combined as Palestinian terr... (link to section)
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Feedback: I like it, I hate it, Please don't link to — LinkBot 11:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
--BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Sentences ok?
Are those sentences from the Southwest Asia section ok?
"Middle East is especially commonly used by Americans (althought frequently incorrectly - as though 'Middle East' and 'Asia' or 'Middle East' and 'Africa' are 2 different regions). 'Middle East' (to some interpretations) is occasionally used to also refer to countries in North Africa."
--BrendanRyan 08:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I think they need some work. The first one is just confusing. I think I know what you are getting at, but it might be clearer if expanded somewhat. I wouldn't use the term "incorrect". These are overlapping designations used for different purposes. It is not like someone has tried to divide the world into a set of discreet regions and accidently put some countries in two. Some people do not understand the distinctions between the terms, but that doesn't mean the terms themselves are "incorrect", just that some people are bad at geography.
- I asked about those sentences because they were written by the same person who wrote really POV stuff in the North Asia article.--BrendanRyan 02:16, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I don't think the inclusion of parts of North Africa in the Middle East is only "occasional" so I'm going to change that myself. Wincoote 01:20, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
satellite image
Cantus, you removed my xplanet image, re-inserting the Plate Carrée Projection projection (without comment). Now, the reason I created that image was because that projection results in extreme distortion when showing a variation in latitude as great as required to show the entirety of Asia. I argue that the simulated 'satellite view' gives a superior impression of the shape as well as the size of the continent in relation to the globe. dab (ᛏ) 17:47, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)