This includes the Far East ( comprising Hong Kong , Japan , Macau , Mainland China , Mongolia , North Korea , South Korea , and Taiwan in East Asia , plus Brunei , Cambodia , East Timor , Indonesia , Laos , Malaysia , Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam in Southeast Asia ) , West Asia ( comprising Armenia , Azerbaijan , Bahrain , Cyprus , Georgia , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , Oman , Palestine , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Turkey , the United Arab Emirates , and Yemen in Western Asia or the Middle East ( aka the Near East ) , Central Asia ( comprising Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan ) , North Asia ( aka Siberia ) , and South Asia ( mainly the countries on the Indian subcontinent and below , comprising Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Nepal , and Pakistan , plus the British Indian Ocean Territory and the island countries of Sri Lanka and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean ) .
This includes the Indian subcontinent ( which is Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , Myanmar , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , the Maldives , Nepal and sometimes Afghanistan ) , the Far East ( which is China , Taiwan , Vietnam , Cambodia , Malaysia , Mongolia , Indonesia , Japan , North Korea , South Korea ) , Australasia ( Australia , New Zealand ) .