ASIA. 



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Nations. 



Length. 



Breadth. 



Square 

 Miles. 



Chief 

 Cities. 



Distance and 



bearing 

 from London. 



Difference of 



time from 



London. 



Religion, j 



' Asiatic Rus- 

 sia 

 Chinese 

 Tibet 

 Independ. 



5300 

 3000 

 1500 

 1500 



1900 

 1080 

 500 

 850 



3,050,000 

 944,000 

 385,000 

 500,000 



Tobolsk 

 Chynian 

 Lasse 

 Saioar ? 

 candj 



2160 X. E. 

 4480 N. E. 

 3780 E. 



2800 E. 



4 10 before 

 8 4 before 



5 40 before 



4 36 before 



2h. and Pag. 1 

 ?agans. 

 Pagans. , 



Pagans. 



China 



1350 



1060 



1,298,000 



Pekin 



4320 S. E. 



7 24 before 



Pagans. 1 



Hindoostan 



1890 



1550 



870,910 



Delhi 



3720 S. E. 



5 16 before 



Mah and P. j 



Ind. beyond 

 the Ganges 



2000 



100O 



741,500 



Siam 

 Pegu 



5040 S. E. 



1 44 before 



Pag. and M. f 



Persia 



1300 



1050 



800.000 



Ispahan 



2460 S. E. 



3 20 before 



Mahom. 1 



Arabia 



1400 



1260 



700.000 



Mecca 



2640 S. E. 



2 52 before 



Mahom. 1 



Syria. 



270 



160 



29,000 



Aleppo 



1860 S. E. 



2 30 before 



Ch. and Ma. 8 



Holy Land 



210 



90 



7600 



Jerusa- 

 lem 



1920 S. E. 



2 24 before 



Ch. and Ma. 1 



Katolia. 



750 



390 



195.000 



Bursa, or 

 Smyrna 



1440 S. E. 



1 48 before 



Mahom. 



Diarbeck, or 

 Mesopota- 

 mia. 



240 



210 



27,000 



Diarbeck 



2060 S. E. 



2 56 before 



Mahome- 

 tans with J 

 ►some few I 

 Chris- J 

 tians. 



Irac, or 



Chaldea 



420 



240 



50,400 



Bagdad 



2240 S. E. 



3 4 before 



Turcomania 

 or Arme- 

 nia 



360 



300 



55,000 



Erzeram 



1860 S. E. 



2 44 before 



Georgia* 



240 



180 



25.600 



Teflis 



1920 E. 



3 10 before 



Curdistan or 

 Assyria 



210 



205 



23,900 



Mousul 



2220 E. 



3 — before 



Mahom. 



• Georgia has lately put itself under the protection of Russia. 



All the islands of Asia (except Cyprus, in the Levant, belonging 

 to the Turks) lie in the Pacific or Eastern Ocean, and the Indian 

 Seas ; of which the principal, where the Europeans trade or have 

 Settlements are, 









Trade with or be- [ 



ISLANDS. 



TOWNS. 



Sq. Miles. 



longing to 



The Japanese isles 



Jeddo, Meaco ... 



138,000 



Dutch 



The Ladrones ... 



Guam . . 









Spain 



Formosa .... 

 Anian . . - . 



Tai-ouanfou 

 Kiontcheow . 







1*7,000 

 11,900 



| China 



The Philippines . 



Manilla . . 







133,700 



Spain 



The Molucca, or Clove isles 



Victoria Fort, Ternate 









Dutch 



The Banda, or Nutmeg isles 



Lantor . . . 









Dutch 



Araboyna "j surrounding the f 

 Celebes }» Mollucea and<! 



Amtioyna . . - 







400 



Dutch 



Mecassa . 







68.400 



Dutch 



Gilolo, &c. J Bxnda isles L Gilolo . 







10.400 



Dutch 



f"Borneo 



Borneo, Caytongee 







228 000 



All Nations 



The Sunda i»!es ^ Sumatra 

 LJava, &c. 



Achen, Bencoolen 







129,000 



English & Dutch 



Batavia, Bantam . 







33,250 



Dutch 



The Andaman and Nicobar isles 



Andaman, Nicobar 









All Nations 



Ceylon .... 



Candy . 







27,730 



Dutch 



The Maldives ... 



Caridon . , 









All Nations ! 



Bombay .... 



Bombay 









English 



The Kurile isles, and those in the sea of Kamtschatka. lately d 



scovered by the 





1 Ruisians , .... 



Russia j 



