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murfitUK

16-11-2011 17:57

What do you consider "Asia" to be?

I'd be interested to hear what you consider Asia to be. The reason is that I was looking for some Australian news on the bbc news site. It used to be under a category called "Asia-Pacific" but now is called just "Asia".

This is the front page for world news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/ and it lists Africa, Europe, Middle East etc and Asia. Included in Asia are Australia and New Zealand.

I suppose Australia and New Zealand are correctly listed as part of Asia but I don't consider them to be Asian countries in the normal sense of things.

So, what do you think? If you were looking for news about Australia or New Zealand would you automatically think "Asia"?

Kingofthedead4

16-11-2011 18:01

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

I would not class them as Asia.

devilincarnate

16-11-2011 18:10

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Yes it is?

Quote:

Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes (1756). He derived it from the Latin for "south of Asia" and differentiated the area from Polynesia (to the east) and the southeast Pacific (Magellanica). It is also distinct from Micronesia (to the northeast). Australasia sits on the Indo-Australian Plate, together with India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia

Plus there is this from the bottom of the BBC link that you posted.

Quote:

Country Profiles
Countries and Territories
Afghanistan
Australia
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Burma
Cambodia
China
Cook Islands
East Timor
Fiji
French Polynesia
Guam
Hong Kong
More Countries and Territories
India
Indonesia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
North Korea
South Korea
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Macau
Malaysia
The Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
More Countries and Territories
Mongolia
Nauru
Nepal
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Niue
Northern Marianas
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Samoa
Singapore
Sri Lanka
More Countries and Territories
Solomon Islands
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet
Tokelau
Tonga
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Xinjiang

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/asia/

TheDaddy

16-11-2011 18:10

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by murfitUK (Post 35331162)

Part of the BBC cuts, chucking Australasia in with Asia saves a web page...

Pierre

16-11-2011 19:33

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

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What do you consider "Asia" to be?

A continent.

Hugh	16-11-2011 20:07

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Incontinent

devilincarnate

16-11-2011 20:10

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35331221)

Incontinent

You may need some of these:erm:

http://www.idiaper.com/

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Gary L

16-11-2011 20:11

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

I always thought Asia was short for Asian?

Stephen

17-11-2011 09:56

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35331225)

I always thought Asia was short for Asian?

ermmm......:dunce:

not really sure how to respond to that.

Chris

17-11-2011 10:02

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35331166)

Part of the BBC cuts, chucking Australasia in with Asia saves a web page...

... or perhaps just an attempt to categorise things in a way that makes more sense to people from those parts of the world?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditor...e_website.html

Quote:

Australia and New Zealand are not part of the Asian continent, but they are part of the Pacific region and increasingly look towards Asia. We think, therefore, this is the best regional index for stories from the two countries.

Damien

17-11-2011 10:17

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

I had a massive debate once of if you class Egypt as middle-eastern or Africa. I find it it hard to classify where Asia becomes the Middle east...

Woolly One

17-11-2011 10:54

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Asia = 4 points in Scrabble.:)

http://www.scrabblepages.com/scrabble/rules/

Pog66

17-11-2011 11:06

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Asia = dubious 80's soft rock superband?

TheDaddy

17-11-2011 13:29

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35331437)

I had a massive debate once of if you class Egypt as middle-eastern or Africa. I find it it hard to classify where Asia becomes the Middle east...

Think there used to be an Asia Minor, the Middle East fell in there (probably)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35331424)

... or perhaps just an attempt to categorise things in a way that makes more sense to people from those parts of the world?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditor...e_website.html

*Rants* Who pays for it, should be made easier for people here to make sense of, bloody foreigners using our websites and having to have them simplified just for their benefit. :D

Maggy

17-11-2011 14:21

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

So we have the far east and the middle east.Where is the near east?:confused:

To be honest the above is about where we are in location to them.Putting Australia and New Zealand in with Asia just underlines locality to each other.

And Egypt is just north Africa not Arabia.;)

Pierre

17-11-2011 14:34

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35331553)

So we have the far east and the middle east.Where is the near east?:confused:

Holland

Hugh	17-11-2011 15:00

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maggy J (Post 35331553)

So we have the far east and the middle east.Where is the near east?:confused:

Cromer? ;)

Rivva

17-11-2011 23:12

Re: What do you consider "Asia" to be?

Asia = Supermarket?

Oh sorry that's Asda.

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