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Asia - tourist guide for holidays

Asia is a continent, which is for a very long time attractive for tourists. You can go there with an organized trip or on your own. And you can admire its history and culture, relax or make a sport. The feel of the places and its great diversity are a guarantee you will cheerfully return to this continent anytime. Here you can find useful information about traveling in this country: prices, accommodation, itineraries, statistics and more.

Asia - the best places to see

Asia Asia is a very diverse area, which offers a lot of wonderful places to any tourist. You can visit amazing historical monuments, modern cities and beautiful nature as well. Asia has indeed a lot to be proud of. It is very hard to choose only a few of highlights, but we will try to:

Asia - countries

Religion:
~ Muslim: 31 %
~ Hinduism: 23 %
~ Buddhist: 13 %
~ Chinese folk: 13 %
~ Christian: 11 %
~ unspecified: 9 %
Religion - Asia
The following pages offer useful information about countries, which are located on the continent Asia. You can find here information about prices, languages, telephone networks, electric networks, travel problems and religions as well. From here you can go directly to pages of the countries:
Electric plug:
Electric plug - Asia

Asia - Travellers Forum

Asia - the map and typical itinerary

Asia - map
There are many ways to see Asia. We recommend you this method: First decide, which countries you want to visit. Then look at their pages - at MapsGuides.com - and you will find here - under the map - recommended itineraries for each country. And then connect the itineraries in different countries - and your final itinerary for the continent Asia is created.

Prices of rooms and meals

Prices symbolIt is generally very cheap to travel thru Asia. Thanks to cheap accommodation, cheap food and cheap transport - you will save your money everywhere. But it is a good idea to check the price level before leaving, because some countries - especially the rich ones (for example United Arabian Emirates and Japan) are quite expensive.

It is often possible to buy cheap meal on streets or in fast-food restaurants. Medium priced meal is usually available in standard restaurants, expensive meal in expensive restaurants. We do not include extreme prices of accommodation and food (for example luxurious apartments in high quality hotels). (Prices are usually very different in different places and in different seasons. In the main season may be in touristic destinations the cheapest rooms unavailable.)

Asia on the Internet

Are you looking for more information? On the Internet there are a lot of information. Here are some advices: Asia may have different names in different languages. For example Asie, Asien, L'Asie, Asia. Use these names in search engines. It is good idea to precisely specify what are you looking for. If you need information about a place, use the name in a search engine. You may use other names of the place as well. If you need - for example - an information about history of the place, add the word history to the search engine.

What Others say

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population. Chiefly in the eastern and northern hemispheres, Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Eurasia—with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe—lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Given its size and diversity, Asia—a toponym dating back to classical antiquity—is more a cultural concept incorporating a number of regions and peoples than a homogeneous physical entity. The history of Asia can be seen as the distinct histories of several peripheral coastal regions: East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East, linked by the interior mass of the Central Asian steppes. The coastal periphery was home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, each of them developing around fertile river valleys. The civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Huanghe shared many similarities. These civilizations may well have exchanged technologies and ideas such as mathematics and the wheel. Other innovations, such as writing, seem to have been developed individually in each area. Cities, states, and empires developed in these lowlands.
Wikipedia

If it is available then we publish here information about the territory from CIA factbook. For Asia it is not available.
CIA The World Factbook
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