20 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ASIA That You Known or Not ???

1.) Asia’s population-of over 4 billion people-is greater than that of the all the other continents combined.

2.) Both the highest point on land, Mount Everest and the lowest point on land, the Dead Sea are found in Asia.

3.) Thailand celebrates Songkran festival not on 1st January, but sometime in mid-April, for three days.

4.) Many other nations, North Korea does have a Christmas festival, but not to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

5.) Japan is a wonderful place to live in, just as long as you don’t get fat, because it is against the law.

6.) The top ten tallest buildings in the world, nine are found in Asia.

7.) The ten largest shopping malls in the world are all located in Asia.

8.) The ten largest cities in the world by population, seven of them are located in Asia.

9.) Only one country in the world has banned tobacco sale. It is called Bhutan, and is found in Asia.

10.) Sholapur is no typical Indian town. It has a bizarre tradition where newborns are thrown from the top of a 50-feet-high tower to symbolize health, wealth and good fortunes.

11.) world’s most spoken language is not English, but Mandarin Chinese, which boasts of over one billion speakers.

12.) The Arabian Desert found in Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest continuous sandy desert.

13.) Indonesia is made up of over 17,000 islands, effectively making it the world’s largest archipelago.

14.) Only two places on the planet are home to wild orangutans-the island of Borneo (shared by Indonesia and Malaysia) and Sumatra (Indonesia). Both of these places are in Asia.

15.) Asia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. That said, it is also home about 44 tribes with absolutely no contact to modern civilization. They live alone, in the jungles of Indonesia and Papua.

16.) Some of the most fascinating and revered animals-the tiger, giant panda, king cobra, Komodo dragon, and Asian Elephant-are all found in Asia.

17.) Only two countries in the world, India and China, have a population above 1 billion people, and both in Asia.

18.) Afghanistan’s National Game is not soccer, basketball, tennis; it is goat grabbing.

19.) Although the pop culture paints all Asians as one the same, they are not. Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Indians, Arabs, and many more cultures are vastly different

20.) Out of the three largest economies in the world, two are in Asia-China (second), and Japan (third).