Question: what mountain range divides southern asia from the far east

title: Geography of Asia
text: A third definition emphasizes transformation in place from one continent to another . Fahey at first defines Turkey as transcontinental by virtue of being in both Anatolia and the Balkans , neglecting the historical circumstance that the Balkans as part of the Ottoman Empire were once Asian , as was much of North Africa . He then hypothesizes that Turkey , accepted into the European Union , is defined by that circumstance to be European . By this usage , the very region to which `` Asia '' was first applied is now Europe . If it is , Turkey can not be transcontinental by being split between two continents . This sort of paradox only underlines that Asia has no precise definition in the same way that nations do , to whom a mere 100 yards of border may be of great concern .