Countries in Asia: 48

SHARONTEE Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Countries in Asia:
48

There are 48 countries in Asia today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).

Not included in this total of "countries" and listed separately are:

Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas) or Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)

#	Country	Population (2019)	Subregion
1	China	1,433,783,686	Eastern Asia
2	India	1,366,417,754	Southern Asia
3	Indonesia	270,625,568	South-Eastern Asia
4	Pakistan	216,565,318	Southern Asia
5	Bangladesh	163,046,161	Southern Asia
6	Japan	126,860,301	Eastern Asia
7	Philippines	108,116,615	South-Eastern Asia
8	Vietnam	96,462,106	South-Eastern Asia
9	Turkey	83,429,615	Western Asia
10	Iran	82,913,906	Southern Asia
11	Thailand	69,625,582	South-Eastern Asia
12	Myanmar	54,045,420	South-Eastern Asia
13	South Korea	51,225,308	Eastern Asia
14	Iraq	39,309,783	Western Asia
15	Afghanistan	38,041,754	Southern Asia
16	Saudi Arabia	34,268,528	Western Asia
17	Uzbekistan	32,981,716	Central Asia
18	Malaysia	31,949,777	South-Eastern Asia
19	Yemen	29,161,922	Western Asia
20	Nepal	28,608,710	Southern Asia
21	North Korea	25,666,161	Eastern Asia
22	Sri Lanka	21,323,733	Southern Asia
23	Kazakhstan	18,551,427	Central Asia
24	Syria	17,070,135	Western Asia
25	Cambodia	16,486,542	South-Eastern Asia
26	Jordan	10,101,694	Western Asia
27	Azerbaijan	10,047,718	Western Asia
28	United Arab Emirates	9,770,529	Western Asia
29	Tajikistan	9,321,018	Central Asia
30	Israel	8,519,377	Western Asia
31	Laos	7,169,455	South-Eastern Asia
32	Lebanon	6,855,713	Western Asia
33	Kyrgyzstan	6,415,850	Central Asia
34	Turkmenistan	5,942,089	Central Asia
35	Singapore	5,804,337	South-Eastern Asia
36	State of Palestine	4,981,420	Western Asia
37	Oman	4,974,986	Western Asia
38	Kuwait	4,207,083	Western Asia
39	Georgia	3,996,765	Western Asia
40	Mongolia	3,225,167	Eastern Asia
41	Armenia	2,957,731	Western Asia
42	Qatar	2,832,067	Western Asia
43	Bahrain	1,641,172	Western Asia
44	Timor-Leste	1,293,119	South-Eastern Asia
45	Cyprus	1,198,575	Western Asia
46	Bhutan	763,092	Southern Asia
47	Maldives	530,953	Southern Asia
48	Brunei	433,285	South-Eastern Asia