Asia
Asian nations: flags and statistics
AFGHANISTAN Area 652,225 sq km Population 42,240,000 Capital Kabul Languages Pashto and Tajik or Dari (official languages), Uzbek, Turkmen
BAHRAIN Area 760 sq km Population 1,501,635 Capital Manama Language Arabic Religions Muslim 85%, Christian 7%, other 8%
BANGLADESH Area 143,998 sq km Population 168,220,000 Capital Dhaka Languages Bangla (official language), English, Chakma, Santali, Urdu
BHUTAN Area 38,394 sq km Population 786,385 Capital Thimphu Language Dzongkha (official language), Nepali, Tshangla
BRUNEI Area 5765 sq km Population 458,949 Capital Bandar Seri Begawan Languages Malay (official language), English, Chinese, Kedayan, Tutong Religions Muslim 66%, Buddhist 14%, Christian 10%, other 10%
BURMA (MYANMAR) Area 676,578 sq km Population 54,133,798
Capital Naypyidaw Language Burmese (official language), Shan, Karen and others
Religions Buddhist 89%, Muslim 4%, Christian 4%, other 3%
CAMBODIA Area 181,035 sq km Population 17,638,801 Capital Phnom Penh Language
Khmer (official language), Cambodian French Religions Buddhist 96%, other 4%
CHINA Area 9,571,300 sq km Population 1,408,280,000 Capital Beijing Language Chinese (many dialects; official language), Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur, Zhuang Religions No religion 52%, folk religionist/Taoist 22%, Buddhist 18%, other 8%
INDIA Area 3,287,590 sq km Population 1,425,775,850 Capital New Delhi Languages Hindi and English (official languages), Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Maithili Religions Hindu 83%, Muslim 11%, Christian 2%, Sikh 2%, other 2%
INDONESIA Area 1,919,440 sq km Population 282,477,584 Capital Jakarta Language Indonesian (official language), Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese
Religions Muslim 87%, other 13%
IRAN Area 1,531,595 sq km Population 85,961,000 Capital Tehran Language Farsi (official language), Azeri Turkish, Kurdish
IRAQ Area 437,367 sq km Population 47,020,774 Capital Baghdad
Language Arabic, Kurdish (official languages)
ISRAEL Area 20,330 sq km Population 9,757,000 Capital Jerusalem,
Tel Aviv Languages Hebrew, Arabic (official languages) Religions Jewish 75%, Muslim 17%, Christian 2%, other 6%
JAPAN Area 377,815 sq km Population 121,561,801 Capital Tokyo Language Japanese, Aynu Itak, Ryukyuan languages Religions No religion declared 61%, Shinto/Buddhist 37%, other 2% Currency Yen
JORDAN Area 88,802 sq km Population 11,484,805 Capital Amman Language Arabic Religions Muslim 92%, other 8%
KAZAKHSTAN Area 2,699,700 sq km Population 20,286,084 Capital Astana Languages Kazakh, Russian
KUWAIT Area 17,818 sq km Population 4,985,716 Capital Kuwait Language Arabic Religions Muslim 85%, other 15%
KYRGYZSTAN Area 191,801 sq km Population 7,161,900 Capital Bishkek Languages Kyrgyz, Russian, Uzbek
LAOS Area 236,800 sq km Population 7,953,556 Capital Vientiane Languages Lao (official language), French, Khmu, Hmong Religions Buddhist 67%, other 33%
LEBANON Area 10,230 sq km Population 5,364,482 Capital Beirut Languages Arabic (official language), French, English Religions Muslim 75%, Christian 25%
MALAYSIA Area 329,847 sq km Population 34,564,810 Capital Kuala Lumpur Language Malaysian (official language), English, Chinese, Tamil Religions Muslim 60%, Buddhist 19%, Christian 9%, Hindu 6%, Chinese religions 3%, other 3%
MALDIVES Area 298 sq km Population 525,994 Capital Malé Language Divehi
MONGOLIA Area 1,565,000 sq km Population 3,504,741 Capital Ulan Bator (Ulaanbaatar) Language Khalkha Mongol (official language), Kazakh, Tuvan
NEPAL Area 143,351 sq km Population 31,122,387 Capital Kathmandu Language Nepali (official language), Maithili, Bhojpuri, Tharu, Tamang, Nepal Bhasa, Sherpa
NORTH KOREA Area 120,538 sq km Population 26,298,666 Capital Pyongyang Language Korean
OMAN Area 309,500 sq km Population 5,049,269 Capital Muscat Language Omani Arabic
Religions Muslim 75%, other 25%
PAKISTAN Area 770,875 sq km Population 241,499,431 Capital Islamabad Language Urdu and English (official languages), Punjabi, Pashto Religions Muslim 97% (Sunni 77%, Shi’a 20%), other 3%
PHILIPPINES Area 298,170 sq km Population 114,163,719 Capital Manila Languages Filipino and English (official languages), Tagalog, Cebuano
Religions Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 10%, Muslim 5%, other 5%
QATAR Area 11,586 sq km Population 3,063,005 Capital Doha Language Arabic Religions Muslim 95%, other 5%
SAUDI ARABIA Area 2,149,690 sq km Population 34,566,328 Capital Riyadh Language Arabic Religion Muslim 100%
SINGAPORE Area 735.6 sq km Population 6,040,000 Languages Chinese (Mandarin), English, Malay and Tamil (official languages) Religions Buddhist 34%, Christian 18%, none 16%, Muslim 14%, other 18%
SOUTH KOREA Area 96,920 sq km Population 52,081,799 Capital Seoul Language Korean
SRI LANKA Area 64,453 sq km Population 23,187,516 Capitals Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, Colombo Languages
Sinhala and Tamil (official languages), English
SYRIA Area 183,630 sq km Population 22,924,000 Capital Damascus Language Arabic (official language), Kurdish, Armenian, Turkish Religions Muslim 90%, other 10%
TAIWAN Area 35,590 sq km Population 23,396,049 Capital Taipei Language Mandarin Chinese (official language), Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, Fuzhou dialect, Formosan languages
TAJIKISTAN Area 141,510 sq km Population 10,786,734 Capital Dushanbe Language Tajik
THAILAND Area 513,115 sq km Population 65,975,198 Capital Bangkok Language Thai (official language), Chinese, Lao, Yawi Religions Buddhist 94%, other 6%
TIMOR-LESTE Area 14,874 sq km Population 1,354,662 Capital Dili Languages
Tetum and Portuguese (official languages), Mambai, Makasai, Baikenu Religions Catholic 97%, other 3% Currency United States dollar
TURKEY Area 769,632 sq km Population 85,664,944 Capital Ankara Languages Turkish (official language), Kurdish, Arabic, Zaza Religions Muslim 99%, other 1%
TURKMENISTAN Area 488,100 sq km Population 7,057,841 Capital Ashkhabad Language Turkmen, Russian
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Area 83,600 sq km Population 11,027,129 Capital Abu Dhabi Language Arabic (official language), Persian, English Religions Muslim 96%, other 4%
UZBEKISTAN Area 425,400 sq km Population 37,535,605 Capital Tashkent Language Uzbek, Russian
VIETNAM
Area 328,566 sq km Population 100,300,000 Capital Hanoi Language Vietnamese (official language), Tay, Murong, French Religions Folk religions 45%, atheist 30%, Buddhist 16%, Christian 8%, other 1%
YEMEN Area 527,968 sq km Population 39,390,799 Capital Sana’a Language
Arabic (official language), Mehri, English Religions Muslim 97%, other 3%
