Random Asian Country Generator

Draws a country at random from Asia — the largest and most varied continent there is, from Lebanon to Japan and from Siberia down to Timor-Leste.

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How many

13510

Include territories No repeats

Generate

46 countries in this selection

Syria

Middle East, Asia

Capital

Damascus

Population

24.7 million

Area

185,180 km²

Ranked 57th of 195 countries by population and 87th by area.

Learn more about Syria

What counts as Asia here

Forty-six sovereign states, plus three territories if you switch them on. Transcontinental countries are assigned by where most of their population lives, which puts Turkey and Azerbaijan in Asia and Russia in Europe. If you would rather exclude them, use the subregion filter instead of the whole continent.

The five Asias

“Random Asian country” covers places with very little in common, so the Region menu lets you go narrower:

• Southeast Asia — 11 states, from Singapore to Indonesia. The tourist-heavy belt, and the one most people picture first.
• South Asia — 8 states around the Indian subcontinent, including the two most populous countries in the world.
• East Asia — 5 states plus Taiwan. Small in number, enormous in economic weight.
• Central Asia — the 5 post-Soviet republics, every one of them landlocked.
• The Middle East — 14 states spanning the Arabian peninsula, the Levant and Iran.

Asia in numbers

Asia holds about 60% of the world’s population on roughly 30% of its land. India is the most populous country on Earth; Brunei is the least populous sovereign state in the group the generator draws from. The spread in size runs from China, nearly ten million square kilometres, to the Maldives at 300 — a factor of more than thirty thousand.

Good ways to use it

Asia is the continent most people know least evenly: a great deal about three or four countries, almost nothing about the other forty. Drawing one at random and reading its page for five minutes is a cheap way to fix that. For a class, draw one per pupil and have each report back on capital, language and one thing the country is known for.