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What are the five region of Asia?

Central Asia

* Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

* Capital cities: Astana, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Ashgabat, Tashkent

* Population: 64.5 million (2016)

* Area: 4.0 million square kilometers (1.5 million square miles)

* Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek

* Religions: Islam (70-90%), Christianity (10-20%), other (1-2%)

East Asia

* Countries: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan

* Capital cities: Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Macau, Ulaanbaatar, Pyongyang, Seoul, Taipei

* Population: 1.5 billion (2016)

* Area: 11.7 million square kilometers (4.5 million square miles)

* Languages: Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, Wu, Min, Hakka, Xiang, Gan

* Religions: Buddhism (21.5%), Taoism (10%), Confucianism (5.5%), Christianity (3.3%), Islam (1.8%), other (58%)

South Asia

* Countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

* Capital cities: Kabul, Dhaka, Thimphu, New Delhi, Male, Kathmandu, Islamabad, Colombo

* Population: 1.7 billion (2016)

* Area: 4.4 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles)

* Languages: Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam

* Religions: Hinduism (79.8%), Islam (14.2%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.7%), Buddhism (0.7%), Jainism (0.4%), other (1%)

Southeast Asia

* Countries: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

* Capital cities: Bandar Seri Begawan, Phnom Penh, Dili, Jakarta, Vientiane, Kuala Lumpur, Naypyidaw, Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Hanoi

* Population: 641 million (2016)

* Area: 4.5 million square kilometers (1.7 million square miles)

* Languages: Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Hmong, Shan

* Religions: Islam (42.3%), Christianity (32.9%), Buddhism (12.8%), Hinduism (10.2%), other (2.2%)

Western Asia

* Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Russia (Asian part), Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

* Capital cities: Yerevan, Baku, Manama, Nicosia, Tbilisi, Tehran, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amman, Kuwait City, Beirut, Muscat, Ramallah, Doha, Moscow (Asian part), Riyadh, Damascus, Ankara, Abu Dhabi, Sana'a

* Population: 329 million (2016)

* Area: 6.3 million square kilometers (2.4 million square miles)

* Languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, Maltese

* Religions: Islam (93%), Christianity (4.5%), Judaism (1.5%), other (1%)

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