Asia (disambiguation)
Appearance
Asia is the world's largest continent.
Asia may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- Asia District, Peru, a beach district
- Asia District, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
- Asia Islands, islands in Indonesia close to Palau
- Asia Minor, a peninsula containing Asia and several other Roman provinces
- Asia-Pacific, the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean
- Asia (Roman province), a part of the Roman Empire occupying the Anatolian peninsula (in modern-day Turkey)
- Asia, Tennessee, United States, an unincorporated community
- Asia, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
- 67 Asia, a large main-belt asteroid
People with the name
[edit]Given name
[edit]- Asia Agcaoili (born 1977), Filipino actress
- Asia Alfasi (born 1984), British writer
- Asia Amjad, Pakistani politician
- Asia Ramazan Antar (1997–2016), Kurdish fighter
- Asia Argento (born 1975), Italian actress
- Asia Bibi (born 1971), Pakistani Christian woman Aasiya Noreen who was acquitted of blasphemy
- Asia Carrera (born 1973), American pornographic actress
- Asia Booth Clarke (1835–1888), American writer
- Asia Cruise (born 1990), American singer
- Asia D'Amato (born 2003), Italian artistic gymnast
- Asia Kate Dillon (born 1984), American actor
- Asia Durr (born 1997), American basketball player
- Asia Harris (born 2004), English squash player
- Asia Hogan-Rochester (born 1999), Canadian rugby sevens player
- Asia Khattak, Pakistani politician
- Asia Khatun (born 1963), Bangladeshi civil servant
- Asia Lanzi (born 2002), Italian skateboarder
- Asia Muhammad (born 1991), American tennis player
- Asia Nitollano (born 1988), former member of The Pussycat Dolls
- Asia O'Hara (born 1982), American drag queen
- Asia Ortega (born 1995), Spanish actress
- Asia Ray Smith (born 1988), American actress
- Asia Taylor (born 1991), American basketball player
- Asia Vieira (born 1982), Canadian actress
- Asia Youngman, Canadian filmmaker
- Asia Monet Ray (born 2005), an American dancer
Surname
[edit]- Daniel Asia (born 1953), American composer
Others
[edit]- Asiya, in Islam, adoptive mother of Moses and wife of the last Pharaoh
- Asia of Diauehi, king of the ancient people of the Diauehi in northeastern Anatolia (circa 850–825 BC)
- Mr Asia or Marty Johnstone (1951–1979), a New Zealand drug dealer
- Planet Asia (born 1976), an American rapper
Music
[edit]- Asia (band), an English rock band
- Asia (Asia album) (1982)
- Asia (Boris album) (2015)
Mythology
[edit]- Asia (Greek myth), several figures from Greek mythology
- Athena Asia, a cultic epithet of the goddess Athena from Greek mythology
Other uses
[edit]- Asia (film), a 2020 Israeli film
- Asiya (film), a 1960 Indian film
- Asia (2024 TV series), a 2024 BBC television documentary series
- American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA)
- ASIA, Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants, also known as Shoenfeld's syndrome
- Asia (magazine), an American magazine in the 1920s and 1930s
- Asia (Miami), a residential skyscraper
- Asia (ship), numerous ships so-named over the centuries
- Asia (soft drink brand)
- Asia Motors, a Korean car manufacturer acquired by Hyundai's Kia Motors unit
- Asia, a sculpture in front of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House