page_title: Asia
section_title: Modern conflicts
hierarchical_section_title: Asia / Modern conflicts
caption_attribution_description: English: APO/February,54,A31dA refugee special train at Ambala Station. The carriages are full and the refugees seek room on top.Photo Number:-37164
context_page_description: Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of 44,579,000 square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense and large settlements, as well as vast barely populated regions. Its 4.5 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world's population.
  In general terms, Asia is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. It is somewhat arbitrary and has moved since its first conception in classical antiquity.
context_section_description: Some of the events pivotal in the Asia territory related to the relationship with the outside world in the post-Second World War were:
  The Partition of India
  The Chinese Civil War
  The Kashmir conflict
  The Balochistan Conflict
  The Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in India
  The Korean War
  The French-Indochina War
  The Vietnam War
  The Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
  The 1959 Tibetan uprising
  The Sino-Vietnamese War
  The Bangladesh Liberation War
  The Yom Kippur War
  The Xinjiang conflict
  The Iranian Revolution
  The Soviet–Afghan War
  The Iran–Iraq War
  The Cambodian Killing Fields
  The Insurgency in Laos
  The Lebanese Civil War
  The Sri Lankan Civil War
  The 1988 Maldives coup d'état
  The Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  The Gulf War
  The Nepalese Civil War
  The Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts
  The West Papua conflict
  The Nagorno-Karabakh War
  The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests
  The Indonesian occupation of East Timor
  The 1999 Pakistani coup d'état
  The War in Afghanistan
  The Iraq War
  The South Thailand insurgency
  The 2006 Thai coup d'état
  The Burmese Civil War
  The Saffron Revolution
  The Kurdish-Turkish conflict
  The Arab Spring
  The Arab–Israeli conflict
  The Syrian Civil War
  The Sino-Indian War
  The 2014 Thai coup d'état
  The Moro conflict in the Philippines
  The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  The Turkish invasion of Syria
  The Rohingya crisis in Myanmar
  The Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  The Hong Kong protests
caption: A refugee special train in Ambala, Punjab during the partition of India in 1947
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