Countries in Asia

Countries in Asia:48

There are 48 countries in Asia today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).

Not included in this total of "countries" and listed separately are:

• Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas) or Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)

#	Country	Population (2018)	Subregion
1	China	1,415,045,928	Eastern Asia
2	India	1,354,051,854	Southern Asia
3	Indonesia	266,794,980	South-Eastern Asia
4	Pakistan	200,813,818	Southern Asia
5	Bangladesh	166,368,149	Southern Asia
6	Japan	127,185,332	Eastern Asia
7	Philippines	106,512,074	South-Eastern Asia
8	Viet Nam	96,491,146	South-Eastern Asia
9	Iran	82,011,735	Southern Asia
10	Turkey	81,916,871	Western Asia
11	Thailand	69,183,173	South-Eastern Asia
12	Myanmar	53,855,735	South-Eastern Asia
13	South Korea	51,164,435	Eastern Asia
14	Iraq	39,339,753	Western Asia
15	Afghanistan	36,373,176	Southern Asia
16	Saudi Arabia	33,554,343	Western Asia
17	Uzbekistan	32,364,996	Central Asia
18	Malaysia	32,042,458	South-Eastern Asia
19	Nepal	29,624,035	Southern Asia
20	Yemen	28,915,284	Western Asia
21	North Korea	25,610,672	Eastern Asia
22	Sri Lanka	20,950,041	Southern Asia
23	Kazakhstan	18,403,860	Central Asia
24	Syria	18,284,407	Western Asia
25	Cambodia	16,245,729	South-Eastern Asia
26	Azerbaijan	9,923,914	Western Asia
27	Jordan	9,903,802	Western Asia
28	United Arab Emirates	9,541,615	Western Asia
29	Tajikistan	9,107,211	Central Asia
30	Israel	8,452,841	Western Asia
31	Laos	6,961,210	South-Eastern Asia
32	Kyrgyzstan	6,132,932	Central Asia
33	Lebanon	6,093,509	Western Asia
34	Turkmenistan	5,851,466	Central Asia
35	Singapore	5,791,901	South-Eastern Asia
36	State of Palestine	5,052,776	Western Asia
37	Oman	4,829,946	Western Asia
38	Kuwait	4,197,128	Western Asia
39	Georgia	3,907,131	Western Asia
40	Mongolia	3,121,772	Eastern Asia
41	Armenia	2,934,152	Western Asia
42	Qatar	2,694,849	Western Asia
43	Bahrain	1,566,993	Western Asia
44	Timor-Leste	1,324,094	South-Eastern Asia
45	Cyprus	1,189,085	Western Asia
46	Bhutan	817,054	Southern Asia
47	Maldives	444,259	Southern Asia
48	Brunei	434,076	South-Eastern Asia

Dependencies or other territories

#	Territory	Population (2018)	Dependency of
1	Taiwan	23,694,089	(China)
2	Hong Kong	7,428,887	China
3	Macao	632,418	China