| Asia Traveling Tales Mahabalipuram Girl, India
 Lantau Island, Hong Kong
 Buddhist Nun, Vietnam
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You, yourself, as
much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection.
- Buddha | Stories | | Region Overview | Asia
is the largest continent, with a total land area of approximately 17,226,000 square
miles, covering about one-third of the Earth's total land surface.
Population
is estimated to be 3 billion, 270 million with a
1.4 percent rate of natural increase.
Languages
are richly diverse, however, thousands of languages spoken by
ethnic tribes have become functionally extinct in the recent
past.
Economies
include subsistance farming for people in most areas,
in contrast to some highly
developed economies such as Japan.
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