Countries in Asia:

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There are 48 countries in Asia today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with the 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)

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#	Country	Population (2023)	Subregion
1	India	1,428,627,663	Southern Asia
2	China	1,425,671,352	Eastern Asia
3	Indonesia	277,534,122	South-Eastern Asia
4	Pakistan	240,485,658	Southern Asia
5	Bangladesh	172,954,319	Southern Asia
6	Japan	123,294,513	Eastern Asia
7	Philippines	117,337,368	South-Eastern Asia
8	Vietnam	98,858,950	South-Eastern Asia
9	Iran	89,172,767	Southern Asia
10	Turkey	85,816,199	Western Asia
11	Thailand	71,801,279	South-Eastern Asia
12	Myanmar	54,577,997	South-Eastern Asia
13	South Korea	51,784,059	Eastern Asia
14	Iraq	45,504,560	Western Asia
15	Afghanistan	42,239,854	Southern Asia
16	Saudi Arabia	36,947,025	Western Asia
17	Uzbekistan	35,163,944	Central Asia
18	Yemen	34,449,825	Western Asia
19	Malaysia	34,308,525	South-Eastern Asia
20	Nepal	30,896,590	Southern Asia
21	North Korea	26,160,821	Eastern Asia
22	Syria	23,227,014	Western Asia
23	Sri Lanka	21,893,579	Southern Asia
24	Kazakhstan	19,606,633	Central Asia
25	Cambodia	16,944,826	South-Eastern Asia
26	Jordan	11,337,052	Western Asia
27	Azerbaijan	10,412,651	Western Asia
28	Tajikistan	10,143,543	Central Asia
29	United Arab Emirates	9,516,871	Western Asia
30	Israel	9,174,520	Western Asia
31	Laos	7,633,779	South-Eastern Asia
32	Kyrgyzstan	6,735,347	Central Asia
33	Turkmenistan	6,516,100	Central Asia
34	Singapore	6,014,723	South-Eastern Asia
35	State of Palestine	5,371,230	Western Asia
36	Lebanon	5,353,930	Western Asia
37	Oman	4,644,384	Western Asia
38	Kuwait	4,310,108	Western Asia
39	Georgia	3,728,282	Western Asia
40	Mongolia	3,447,157	Eastern Asia
41	Armenia	2,777,970	Western Asia
42	Qatar	2,716,391	Western Asia
43	Bahrain	1,485,509	Western Asia
44	Timor-Leste	1,360,596	South-Eastern Asia
45	Cyprus	1,260,138	Western Asia
46	Bhutan	787,424	Southern Asia
47	Maldives	521,021	Southern Asia
48	Brunei	452,524	South-Eastern Asia

Dependencies or other territories

#	Territory	Population (2023)	Dependency of
1	Taiwan	23,923,276	(China)
2	Hong Kong	7,491,609	China
3	Macao	704,149	China