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Southwest Asia Service Medal. U.S. military personnel who served in Southwest Asia from August 2, 1990 (or January 17, 1991, for Turkey and Egypt) to November 30, 1995. The Southwest Asia Service Medal ( SASM or SWASM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was created by order of President George H.W. Bush on March 12, 1991.
West Asia. West Asia, also called Western Asia or Southwest Asia, is the westernmost region of Asia. As defined by most academics, UN bodies and other institutions, the subregion consists of Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Mesopotamia, the Armenian highlands, the Levant, the island of Cyprus, the Sinai Peninsula and the South Caucasus.
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey all have territory in both Asia and Europe. Armenia and Cyprus are entirely in Western Asia but are socio-politically European countries and members of the Council of Europe, with Cyprus also being a member of the European Union. [citation needed] The division between Asia and Africa is ...
Felistia: A communist monarchy in the Dead or Alive video game series. Gaipajama: An Indian -based monarchy from The Adventures of Tintin. Helmajistan: A fictional South Asian country, based Afghanistan featured in the Japanese anime television series Full Metal Panic!. Jalpur: A fictional Indian kingdom in the animated television series Mira ...
001 – World. Southeast Asia[ a] is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania. [ 5] Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of ...
Countries fall into four broad categories based on their HDI: very high, high, medium, and low human development. Currently, no Oceanian country falls into the low human development category while Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen are the only Asian countries which fall into this category. The index was developed in 1990 by Pakistani economist ...
Asia: 42.72 trillion: 1 China: 18.53 trillion [2] 2 Japan: 4.11 trillion [3] 3 India: 3.93 trillion [4] 4 South Korea: 1.76 trillion 5 Indonesia: 1.47 trillion 6 Turkey: 1.11 trillion 7 Saudi Arabia: 1.11 trillion 8 Taiwan: 803.0 billion 9 Thailand: 548.9 billion 10 Israel: 530.6 billion 11 United Arab Emirates: 527.8 billion 12 Singapore
Ethnolinguistic distribution in Central and Southwest Asia of the Altaic, Caucasian, Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) and Indo-European families.. Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, [1] and also ...