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Asia The world's largest continent. It occupies the eastern part of the Eurasian landmass and its adjacent islands and is separated from Europe by the Ural Mountains. Asia borders on the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean and Red Seas in the west. It includes the largest peninsulas of Asia Minor, India, Arabia, and Indochina and the island groups of Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Ceylon; contains the mountain ranges of the Hindu Kush, Himalayas, Pamirs, Tian Shan, Urals, and Caucasus, the great plateaus of India, Iran and Tibet, vast plains and deserts, and the valleys of many large rivers including the Mekong, Irrawaddy, Indus, Ganges, Tigris and Euphrates (世界上最大的大陆。占据了欧亚大陆的东部，邻近岛屿，以乌拉尔山脉作为和欧洲的分隔线。亚洲接壤北冰洋，太平洋，印度洋以及地中海和西方的红海。包括小亚细亚最大的半岛，印度，阿拉伯半岛，中国，和日本群岛，印度尼西亚，菲律宾，斯里兰卡；包括喜马拉雅山脉边缘，帕米尔高原，天山，乌拉尔山脉和高加索山脉，印度最大的高原，伊朗，广阔的平原和沙漠，很多大河的山谷比如底格里斯河，幼发拉底河。) |
