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Asia is Earth ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an ___MASK2___ of , about 30 % of Earth ' s total land ___MASK2___ and 8 . 7 % of the Earth ' s total surface ___MASK2___ . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the ___MASK72___ 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 within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . Tibet ( Tibetan Pinyin : " boe ", ; / i t  s¹ /) is a region on the Tibetan Plateau in Asia . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpa , Qiang , and Lhoba peoples and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of ___MASK100___ Chinese and Hui people . Tibet is the highest region on Earth , with an average elevation of . The highest elevation in Tibet is Mount Everest , Earth ' s highest mountain , rising 8 , 848 m ( 29 , 029 ft ) above sea level . The Tibetan Plateau , also known in China as the Qinghai  Tibet Plateau or the Qingzang Plateau or Himalayan Plateau , is a vast elevated plateau in Central Asia and East Asia , covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China , as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir state of India . It stretches approximately north to south and east to west . With an average elevation exceeding , the Tibetan Plateau is sometimes called " the Roof of the World " and is the world ' s highest and largest plateau , with an ___MASK2___ of ( about five times the size of Metropolitan France ). Sometimes termed the Third Pole , the Tibetan Plateau contains the headwaters of the drainage basins of most of the streams in surrounding regions . Its tens of thousands of glaciers and other geographical and ecological features serve as a " water tower " storing water and maintaining flow . The impact of global warming on the Tibetan Plateau is of intense scientific interest . The ___MASK29___ are a family of monocotyledonous graminoid flowering plants known as sedges , which superficially resemble grasses and rushes . The family is large , with some 5 , 500 known species described in about 90 genera , the largest being the " Carex " genus of " true sedges " with over 2 , 000 species . These species are widely distributed , with the centers of diversity for the group occurring in tropical Asia and tropical South America . While sedges may be found growing in almost all environments , many are associated with wetlands , or with poor soils . Ecological communities dominated by sedges are known as sedgelands . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total ___MASK2___ of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface ___MASK2___ . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Black Sea is a body of water between Eastern Europe and Western Asia , bounded by ___MASK96___ , Georgia , Romania , Russia , Turkey , and Ukraine . It is supplied by a number of major rivers , such as the Danube , Dnieper , Rioni , Southern Bug , and Dniester . The Black Sea has an area of ( not including the Sea of Azov ), a maximum depth of , and a volume of . It is constrained by the Pontic Mountains to the south and by the Caucasus Mountains to the east , and features a wide shelf to the northwest . The longest east - west extent is about . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . The Himalayas , or Himalaya , ( or ) are a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau . India , officially the Republic of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by ___MASK2___ , the second - most populous country ( with over 1 . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . Kobresia is a genus of plants in the sedge family . They are sometimes called bog sedges . These perennial sedges are quite similar to ___MASK22___ species in appearance . The genus is widespread across much of Europe , Asia and North America , with many species native to the Himalayas . Kobresia burangensis Y . C . Yang -- Tibet Kobresia capillifolia ( Decne . ) C . B . Clarke -- Central Asia , Himalayas , Tuva region of Siberia , Mongolia , central and western China including Tibet and Xinjiang Kobresia cercostachys ( Franch . ) C . B . Clarke -- Eastern Himalayas , Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia condensata ( Kük . ) S . R . Zhang & Noltie -- Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia cuneata Kük -- Tibet to central China Kobresia curticeps ( C . B . Clarke ) Kük . in H . G . A . Engler -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan Kobresia curvirostris ( C . B . Clarke ) C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Bhutan , Arunachal Pradesh , Thailand Kobresia duthiei C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia esbirajbhandarii Rajbh . & H . Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia esenbeckii ( Kunth ) Noltie -- Tibet , Yunnan , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India , Myanmar Kobresia falcata F . T . Wang & Tang ex P . C . Li -- Sichuan , Gansu Kobresia filicina ( C . B . Clarke ) C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia filifolia ( Turcz . ) C . B . Clarke -- Siberia , Mongolia , Gansu , Hebei , Inner Mongolia , Qinghai , Shanxi Kobresia fissiglumis C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Tibet , Yunnan , Nepal , Bhutan , northern and eastern India Kobresia fragilis C . B . Clarke -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Qinghai , Sichuan , Yunnan , Sikkim Kobresia gammiei C . B . Clarke -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet Kobresia gandakiensis Rajbh . & H . Ohba -- Nepal , Sikkim Kobresia graminifolia C . B . Clarke -- Nepal , Gansu , Qinghai , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia harae Rajbh . & H . Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia hohxilensis R . F . Huang in S . G . Wu & Z . J . Feng -- Gansu , Qinghai , Tibet Kobresia humilis ( C . A . Mey . ex Trautv . ) Serg . in V . L . Komarov -- Caucasus , Turkey , Iraq , Iran , Afghanistan , Central Asia , Himalayas , Nepal , Pakistan , Tibet , Xinjiang , Mongolia Kobresia inflata P . C . Li in S . Y . Jin & Y . L . Chen -- Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia kanaii Rajbh . & H . Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia kansuensis Kük -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Gansu , Qinghai , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia karakorumensis Dickoré -- Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Kashmir , Tibet , Xinjiang Kobresia kobresioidea ( Kük . ) J . Kern -- Sumatra Kobresia kuekenthaliana Hand . - Mazz . -- Sichuan Kobresia laxa Nees in R . Wight -- Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Kashmir , Tibet , Bhutan Kobresia littledalei C . B . Clarke -- Sichuan , Tibet Kobresia loliacea F . T . Wang & Tang ex P . C . Li -- Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia macrantha Boeckeler -- Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Xinjiang , Nepal , Tibet Kobresia macrolepis Meinsh . -- Caucasus Kobresia mallae Rajbh . & H . Ohba -- Nepal Kobresia myosuroides ( Vill . ) Fiori in A . Fiori & al . -- northern and central Europe and Asia from Spain and Iceland to Korea and the Kuril Islands , including Siberia , China , Scandinavia , Germany , Italy , etc . ; also Greenland , Alaska , much of Canada and the mountains of the Western United States Kobresia nepalensis ( Nees ) Kük . in H . G . A . Engler -- Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan ; Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia nitens C . B . Clarke -- Pakistan , Nepal , northern India Kobresia prainii Kük -- Nepal , Tibet , Bhutan Kobresia pusilla N . A . Ivanova -- Gansu , Hebei , Inner Mongolia , Qinghai , Sichuan , Tibet Kobresia pygmaea ( C . B . Clarke ) C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- much of China ; Himalayas from Pakistan to Myanmar Kobresia rcsrivastavae Jana -- Uttarakhand Kobresia robusta Maxim . -- Mongolia , Gansu , Qinghai , Xinjiang , Tibet Kobresia royleana ( Nees ) Boeckeler -- Central Asia , Himalayas , Nepal , Bhutan , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Xinjiang , Tibet , Yunnan Afghanistan , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand Kobresia sanguinea ( Boott ) Raymond -- Pakistan , Kashmir Kobresia schoenoides ( C . A . Mey . ) Steud -- Caucasus , Iran , Central Asia , Himalayas , China Kobresia setschwanensis Hand . - Mazz . -- Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia sibirica ( Turcz . ) Boeckeler -- Arctic Russia , Mongolia , Alaska , Arctic Canada , British Columbia , Colorado , Wyoming Kobresia sikkimensis Kük . in H . G . A . Engler -- Sikkim , Tibet , Nepal , Bhutan , Assam Kobresia simpliciuscula ( Wahlenb . ) Mack . -- northern and central Europe from Britain and Spain to Kamchatka ; Alaska , Greenland , much of Canada , mountains of western United States Kobresia smirnovii N . A . Ivanova -- Altai , Kazakhstan , Mongolia Kobresia squamiformis Y . C . Yang -- Sikkim , Tibet , Gansu Kobresia tibetica Maxim . -- Tibet , Xinjiang , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan Kobresia tunicata Hand . - Mazz . -- Sichuan , Yunnan Kobresia uncinioides ( Boott ) C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Nepal , Bhutan , Myanmar , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia vaginosa C . B . Clarke in J . D . Hooker -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan Kobresia vidua ( Boott ex C . B . Clarke ) Kük . in H . G . A . Engler -- Nepal , Bhutan , Tibet , Yunnan , Gansu , Qinghai , Sichuan Kobresia woodii Noltie -- Bhutan , Tibet Kobresia yadongensis Y . C . Yang -- Tibet Kobresia yangii S . R . Zhang -- Sichuan ___MASK22___ is a vast genus of almost 2 , 000 species of grassy plants in the family ___MASK29___ , commonly known as sedges . Other members of the ___MASK29___ family are also called sedges , however those of genus " ___MASK22___ " may be called " true " sedges , and it is the most species - rich genus in the family . The study of " ___MASK22___ " is known as caricology . A mountain range ( also mountain barrier , belt , or system ) is a geographic ___MASK2___ containing numerous geologically related mountains . A mountain system or system of mountain ranges , sometimes is used to combine several geological features that are geographically ( regionally ) related . On Earth , most significant mountain ranges are the result of plate tectonics , though mountain ranges are formed by a range of processes , are found on many planetary mass objects in the Solar System and are likely a feature of most terrestrial planets . Art is a diverse range of ___MASK72___ activities in creating visual , auditory or performing artifacts ( artworks ), expressing the author ' s imaginative or technical skill , intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power . In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art , the criticism of art , the study of the history of art , and the aesthetic dissemination of art . A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth . Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria , up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents . Ordered from largest in size to smallest , they are : Asia , Africa , North America , South America , Antarctica , Europe , and Australia . In geology , ___MASK70___ of continental crust include regions covered with water .