The world is divided into seven continents: Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia. However, depending on whom you ask, some would include Australia in Oceania ...

The Composite Map of the Ming Empire (Da Ming Hunyi Tu) reflects the political situation in AD 1389 but was likely painted much later. Original Chinese labels were later covered with Manchu on paper ...

This piece is the last of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: East Asia, Central and North Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and West ...

In the Asia-Pacific region, home to more than 60% of the world’s population, cardiometabolic risk factors are on the rise and the CVD burden is heavy, but the area remains dramatically ...