Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It appears as a location in several comics across numerous publishers.
Name:
Asia
Aliases:
Start year:
1934
First issue:
Les Aventures De Tintin (1930) #4 Les Cigares Du Pharaon
Asia covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area) and is located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It hosts 60% of the world's current human population.
Sovereign states:
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China
- Cyprus
- East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Egypt
- Georgia
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
- Yemen
States with limited recognition:
- Abkhazia
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- Northern Cyprus
- Palestine
- South Ossetia
- Taiwan
Dependencies and special administrative regions:
- Australia: Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- China: Hong Kong, Macao
- United Kingdom: Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British Indian Ocean Territory
Fictional states:
- Badhnisia (Johnny Thunder)
- Bialya
- Hondo City
- Golithia (Batman: Son of the Demon)
- Gulshan
- Kahndaq
- Kata Jaya (Thunderbolts)
- Khemed (The Adventures of Tintin)
- K'un Lun
- Madripoor
- Marinmer
- Munma Holy Republic (Appleesed)
- Naou (Elektra v.2)
- Rhapastan
- Rheelasia
- Qurac
- Shangri-La
- Sin-Cong
- Sondonesia (The Adventures of Tintin)
- Syraq
- Trucial Abysmia
- Udon Khai (Batman: The Ultimate Evil)
- The Valley of Spirits
- Yellow Empire (Blake & Mortimer)
[This list is not exhaustive.]
