Asia - Continent Topics

Listed below are web sites which generally contain information related to the continent of Asia, or provide information for more than one nation of Asia.  Web sites for individual nations of Asia can be selected from the regions of Asia buttons below.

Central Asia	East Asia
South Asia	Southeast Asia
Southwest Asia

CIA World Factbook - Good general information on each nation of the world.

Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - This site has an excellent countries web providing a great deal of information on most nations of the world.

Global Edge - Country Insights - Excellent Michigan State University Web Site - "Current information on the business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and relevant statistical data are provided in a region and country-specific format, covering 196 countries. A rich collection of country and region specific international business links adds to the vast collection of information."

Country Reports.org - Great reference site for most nations of the world.

Global Stat - "Globastat is an award-winning web site with a wealth of geographic information. Our data tables show how over 190 countries compare to each other in more than 140 categories, ranging from population size to electricity consumption per person. Globastat uses the CIA World Factbook statistics."

Geohive - Extensive Data Here - "Welcome to the site dealing with statistics on the human population and Earth in general. The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure and more.
The site is divided into several parts. There are four main parts. One dealing with the whole world and its regions, a second with the major regions, a third with all major countries separately and a fourth with rankings (the most, largest, longest, wealthiest, etc.). "

NationMaster.com - "Welcome to NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. What's more, you can select exactly which countries you want to include."

BBC News Country Profiles - "Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries.  They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives."

Asia Source - An excellent resource site from the Asian Society.org.  Visit this site if your are looking for Asia related topics.

Asia Studies Network Information Center - University of Texas site, extensive resources and links.  Web site includes links especially for Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia.

Geographic.org - Reference site for most nations of the world.

Global Geografia.com - Italian and English language web site, good deal of information on nations of the world, images, maps and more.

Geography IQ - "Geography IQ is an online world atlas packed with geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. In addition, Geography IQ brings together a number of other resources including maps, flags, currency conversion as well as climate and time zone information. Which country has the smallest land mass? Which has the youngest population? Which has the lowest infant mortality rate? Our rankings pages rank countries and territories by more than 50 geographic, demographic, economic and military criteria."

Around the World - Individual gallery of pictures, many nations, some in Asia.

CNN Asia Edition - Excellent news source

Rough Guides - Site contains a series of country travel, what to see, descriptions - good site to visit.

Manfred's Travel Pictures - Images from many areas of the world.  Manfred allows private, non commercial, use of the web site images.

Asiaville - Web site with a variety of links to many nations of Asia.

ASIACO - A search engine to find all things Asian, a good starting point

http://www.askasia.org - Web site, other links, variety of Asia 
related topics

Asia Gateway - Extensive Web Site with many links to Asian Nations

Asianbusinesswatch.com - Web site with links for the businessman, but also economic information on Asia and Asian nations.

Accomodating Asia - Travel Site - Prepare for your trip by following annotated links to fellow travellers' diaries, music, food, history, and regional pages. And join in the discussion on the "Travellers' Exchange". 

Encyclopaedia of the Orient - Middle East nations and topics.

The Association for Asian Studies - University of Michigan based organization. One of their web pages contains a good number of links to Asian Study/Research web sites.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html - Asian Studies Web Site - Australian site with links to most Asian nations, Asian regions.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ - Australian Site - same as above, but you connect to the main page with more Asian Nation, region choices.

Asia (World Communities) - Links to information on most nations of Asia.

Welcome To Asia One Home Page - General Commercial Web Site dealing with Asia - has links to many Asian papers, a few other items that may be of interest

NCBuy.Com Countries of the World Reference - Commercial site, but it does contain a good deal of information on each nation of the world in this section of its web site.