KazakhstanCapital: Astana. The largest landlocked country in the world. About 2.72 million square kilometers, with five neighbors. A small part lies in Europe, west of the Ural River.
KyrgyzstanCapital: Bishkek. Landlocked, with four neighbors. Of all landlocked countries it is the one farthest from any ocean. About 200,000 square kilometers.
TajikistanCapital: Dushanbe. Landlocked, with four neighbors. About 143,000 square kilometers, the smallest of the five countries of Central Asia.
TurkmenistanCapital: Ashgabat. Landlocked, with four neighbors. Its only coast is on the Caspian Sea. About 488,000 square kilometers, the second largest of the five countries of Central Asia.
UzbekistanCapital: Tashkent. One of only two doubly landlocked countries. All five of its neighbors are landlocked too, as long as the Caspian Sea is counted as a lake. The other is Liechtenstein.
Eastern Asia 5
ChinaCapital: Beijing. The largest country asked on this page. It has 14 neighbors on land, from Afghanistan to Vietnam.
JapanCapital: Tokyo. An island country, about 378,000 square kilometers. Four big islands plus thousands of smaller ones.
MongoliaCapital: Ulaanbaatar. Landlocked, with two neighbors, China and Russia. More than 1.5 million square kilometers, second in size among landlocked countries only to Kazakhstan.
North KoreaCapital: Pyongyang. About 120,500 square kilometers. A little larger than its southern neighbor. The United Nations lists it as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
South KoreaCapital: Seoul. About 100,000 square kilometers. The United Nations lists it as the Republic of Korea.
South-Eastern Asia 11
BruneiCapital: Bandar Seri Begawan. It shares Borneo, the world's third largest island, with Indonesia and Malaysia. About 5,800 square kilometers, with one neighbor on land.
CambodiaCapital: Phnom Penh. Three neighbors: Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. About 181,000 square kilometers.
East TimorCapital: Dili. Indonesia is its only neighbor on land. About 14,900 square kilometers. Timor-Leste, the name the United Nations uses, is accepted as a typed answer.
IndonesiaCapital: Jakarta. The largest island country in the world. About 1.9 million square kilometers in all, with more than 17,000 islands. It shares Borneo, Timor and New Guinea with its neighbors.
LaosCapital: Vientiane. Landlocked, with five neighbors: Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. About 237,000 square kilometers.
MalaysiaCapital: Kuala Lumpur. About 331,000 square kilometers. That is within a few hundred of Vietnam. Its states of Sabah and Sarawak cover about a quarter of Borneo.
MyanmarCapital: Naypyidaw. The largest country on the mainland of South-Eastern Asia. About 677,000 square kilometers. Burma, the older name, is accepted as a typed answer.
PhilippinesCapital: Manila. An island country, an archipelago of about 300,000 square kilometers.
SingaporeCapital: Singapore, a city and a country with one name. An island country of about 730 square kilometers, the second smallest country in Asia, so the map shows it as a dot.
ThailandCapital: Bangkok. About 513,000 square kilometers. The second largest country on the mainland of South-Eastern Asia, after Myanmar.
VietnamCapital: Hanoi. About 331,000 square kilometers, within a few hundred of Malaysia. Three neighbors: China, Laos and Cambodia.
Southern Asia 9
AfghanistanCapital: Kabul. Landlocked, with six neighbors. They are China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. About 653,000 square kilometers.
BangladeshCapital: Dhaka. Two neighbors on land, India and Myanmar. About 148,000 square kilometers, almost exactly the size of Nepal.
BhutanCapital: Thimphu. Landlocked, with two neighbors, China and India. About 38,400 square kilometers.
IndiaCapital: New Delhi. Second largest country asked on this page, after China. The largest of the nine under Southern Asia.
IranCapital: Tehran. About 1.65 million square kilometers. The United Nations list files it under Southern Asia, which is why it lights up with that group here.
MaldivesCapital: Malé. The smallest country in Asia. An archipelago of about 300 square kilometers, which is why the map shows it as a dot.
NepalCapital: Kathmandu. Landlocked, with two neighbors, China and India. About 147,500 square kilometers.
PakistanCapital: Islamabad. Eighth largest of the 47 countries on this page. One of the nine that the United Nations list files under Southern Asia.
Sri LankaCapital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the legislative capital. Colombo, right beside it, is the executive and commercial capital, and both are accepted. An island country of about 65,600 square kilometers.
Western Asia 17
ArmeniaCapital: Yerevan. The smallest landlocked country in Asia. About 29,700 square kilometers, with four neighbors.
AzerbaijanCapital: Baku. It has no ocean coast, only the Caspian Sea. That is the biggest inland water body on Earth. Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan share it.
BahrainCapital: Manama. An island country, under 800 square kilometers. One main island in an archipelago. It is the third smallest country in Asia, so the map shows it as a dot.
CyprusCapital: Nicosia. An island country in the Mediterranean Sea. The United Nations list files it under Western Asia, and many other lists count it with Europe.
GeorgiaCapital: Tbilisi. A Caucasus country between Europe and Asia. The United Nations list files it under Western Asia.
IraqCapital: Baghdad. About 438,000 square kilometers, close to the size of Uzbekistan.
IsraelThe United Nations list files it under Western Asia. One of the 17 countries there.
JordanCapital: Amman. About 89,300 square kilometers. A little larger than the United Arab Emirates.
KuwaitCapital: Kuwait City, which shares the name of the country. About 17,800 square kilometers.
LebanonCapital: Beirut. About 10,450 square kilometers, a little smaller than Qatar.
OmanCapital: Muscat. About 309,500 square kilometers, a little larger than the Philippines.
QatarCapital: Doha. About 11,600 square kilometers, a little larger than Lebanon.
Saudi ArabiaCapital: Riyadh. About 2.15 million square kilometers. The largest of the 17 countries under Western Asia.
SyriaCapital: Damascus. The United Nations list files it under Western Asia. Its neighbors Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon are filed there too.
TurkeyCapital: Ankara. About 784,000 square kilometers in all. A small part of it is in Europe. Türkiye, the spelling the United Nations uses, is accepted as a typed answer.
United Arab EmiratesCapital: Abu Dhabi. About 83,600 square kilometers. UAE is accepted as a typed answer.
YemenCapital: Sana'a. About 456,000 square kilometers, a little larger than Iraq.
How this list was compiled: The 47 countries are the member states of the United Nations that the UN statistics office files under its five regions of Asia: the member list at https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states and United Nations Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49), https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, both checked 2026-09-19. M49 files the Russian Federation under Eastern Europe, so it is not on this list. Capitals, and which countries other lists count with Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Asia, checked 2026-09-19. One capital is left out because that source marks it as claimed; that country is asked by name only. Areas, and the largest and smallest countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_area, checked 2026-09-19; an area that the source gives with a note about a disputed territory is not stated. Landlocked countries, their neighbors, Kazakhstan as the largest landlocked country, Kyrgyzstan as the one farthest from any ocean, Uzbekistan as doubly landlocked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. Island countries and what each is made of, Indonesia as the largest island country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_island_countries, checked 2026-09-19. Neighbor counts of China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Brunei and Timor-Leste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_number_of_land_borders, checked 2026-09-19. Countries on the Caspian Sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea, checked 2026-09-19. Borneo as the third largest island and how it is shared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, checked 2026-09-19. Shapes of the drawing that are not member states of the United Nations, or that the points file flags, are not on this list and are never asked. Positions in the hints were read off the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Sri Lanka, the legislative capital and the executive and commercial capital beside it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Jayawardenepura_Kotte, checked 2026-09-19; Colombo is accepted as a typed capital. The capital of Myanmar is spelled Naypyidaw on every page of this family; Nay Pyi Taw, the spelling the United Nations uses, is accepted. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 32°N 87°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 4 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This Asia outline map shows the borders of 47 countries, from Turkey and Yemen in the west to Japan and Indonesia in the east.
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The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the 47 countries of Asia, or Named for their names, then press Print this map; the answer key prints on its own sheet.
A blank map of Asia countries, region by region
The countries fall into five regions: Western Asia (17), Southern Asia (9), South-eastern Asia (11), Eastern Asia (5) and Central Asia (5). Twelve are too small to write inside, from Singapore to Bahrain, so their numbers sit in rings.
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Questions and answers
Is Russia on this map?
Russia is drawn along the top, but it is not numbered: the United Nations counts it as a country of Europe. Turkey and Cyprus are numbered here as countries of Western Asia.
Does the map show North and South Korea?
Yes, as two countries with their own numbers, in the Eastern Asia region with China, Japan and Mongolia.
Which countries of Asia are the smallest on the map?
Twelve carry a ring because they are too small to write inside, among them Singapore, Bahrain, the Maldives, Brunei and Qatar.