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Noun: Asia  ey-zhu
  1. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
     
  2. The nations of the Asian continent collectively

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, continent

Part of: Eurasia

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