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Asia

The 47 countries of Asia: map, capitals, population and area

Map of the 47 countries of AsiaCHINAINDIAKAZAKHSTANMONGOLIAIRANMYANMARTÜRKIYEYEMENVIETNAMJAPANNEPALRUSSIABAHRAINBRUNEIISRAELMALDIVESSINGAPORESOUTH KOREASRI LANKATIMOR-LESTEIndian Ocean02,500 km
The 47 countries of Asia shaded and outlined; small states ringed. Orthographic projection centred on 28.0°N 88.0°E; the scale bar is true at the centre.

Asia has 47 of the 195 countries in this atlas, in 5 subregions: Western Asia (17), South-Eastern Asia (11), Southern Asia (9), Central Asia (5) and Eastern Asia (5). Together they cover 32,100,814 km².

The largest by area is China (9,706,961 km²) and the smallest is Maldives (300 km²). India has the most people, 1.46 billion in 2025; Brunei has the fewest with World Bank data, 466,330.

Of the 47, 12 are landlocked, and 6 are island countries with no land border (Bahrain, Japan, Maldives, Philippines, Singapore and Sri Lanka).

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All 47 countries A–Z

FlagCountryCapitalPopulationArea km²
AfghanistanKabul43,844,1112025652,230
ArmeniaYerevan3,086,700202529,743
AzerbaijanBaku10,246,996202586,600
BahrainManama1,600,3662025765
BangladeshDhaka175,686,8992025147,570
BhutanThimphu796,682202538,394
BruneiBandar Seri Begawan466,33020255,765
CambodiaPhnom Penh17,847,9822025181,035
ChinaBeijing1,406,585,00020259,706,961
GeorgiaTbilisi3,935,766202569,700
IndiaNew Delhi1,463,865,52520253,287,590
IndonesiaJakarta285,721,23620251,904,569
IranTehran92,417,68120251,648,195
IraqBaghdad47,020,7742025438,317
IsraelJerusalem10,122,800202520,770
JapanTokyo123,366,7342025377,930
JordanAmman11,520,684202589,342
KazakhstanAstana20,843,75420252,724,900
KuwaitKuwait City4,865,298202517,818
KyrgyzstanBishkek7,343,0642025199,951
LaosVientiane7,873,0462025236,800
LebanonBeirut5,849,421202510,452
MalaysiaKuala Lumpur35,977,8382025330,803
MaldivesMalé529,6762025300
MongoliaUlan Bator3,568,97820251,564,110
MyanmarNaypyidaw54,850,6482025676,578
NepalKathmandu29,618,1182025147,181
North KoreaPyongyang26,571,0362025120,538
OmanMuscat5,494,6912025309,500
PakistanIslamabad255,219,5542025881,912
PalestineRamallah5,413,59620256,220
PhilippinesManila116,786,9622025342,353
QatarDoha2,972,215202511,586
Saudi ArabiaRiyadh36,973,55520252,149,690
SingaporeSingapore6,111,1752025710
South KoreaSeoul51,684,5642025100,210
Sri LankaColombo21,756,000202565,610
SyriaDamascus25,620,4272025185,180
TajikistanDushanbe10,786,7342025143,100
ThailandBangkok71,619,8632025513,120
Timor-LesteDili1,418,517202514,874
TürkiyeAnkara85,878,5562025783,562
TurkmenistanAshgabat7,618,8472025488,100
United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi11,513,149202583,600
UzbekistanTashkent37,053,4282025447,400
VietnamHanoi101,598,5272025331,212
YemenSana'a41,773,8782025527,968
 Population: World Bank, latest value (year under each figure), CC BY 4.0. Area and capitals: world-countries (ODbL 1.0).