North Asia - Definition and Overview

North Asia is a subregion of Asia. It consists entirely of Siberia, which lies in the Asian part of Russia. By some definitions, not all of Siberia is part of North Asia.

See Siberia for more information.

[ Some Western media/journalists, esp. American media, Financial journalists and Americans (including some asian media from Far East blindly copying their format) wrongly use North Asia or North-east Asia to refer to East Asia (i.e. China, Japan, Koreas, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc).

This is absolutely wrong geographically because (the real ) North Asia is Central Siberia (' 12 o'clock position ' of Asia) and NE Asia (' 1 or 2 o'clock position ' of Asia) is Eastern Siberia ( or Russian Far East).

Americans/Westerners make such mistakes because many don't bother to check up the TRUE EXTEND/meaning of Asia or don't realise that Asia is in fact the name of a Continent - wrongly believe that only East Asia and South-east Asia (i.e. Far East to Westerners) PLUS South Asia (Indian Sub-continent) constitutes 'Asia'.

Some American styled media therefore wrongly label East Asia (which is in fact at ' 3 o'clock position ' of Asia and lies above/north of South-east Asia that is at ' 4 or 5 o'clock postion ' of Asia) as 'their' North Asia / NE Asia and South Asia and South-east Asia as 'their' Southern Asia - totally not realising that West Asia (or Middle East), Central Asia and Siberia i.e. North Asia are all sub-continents of Asia. ]

Other subregions of Asia

• East Asia
• Southeast Asia
• South Asia (Indian Subcontinent)
• Central Asia
• Southwest Asia or West Asia (One definition of the Middle East is synonymous with Southwest Asia)
• Northern Eurasia (Extends into Europe)
• Central Eurasia (Extends into Europe)

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