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Use for: Ascension

• island in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the British overseas territory of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

• a country house in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. A mid-19th century designed landscape most notable for its 20th century garden additions by the famous plant hunter George Sheriff.

• Here are entered works on the entire continent that extends from Europe and Africa to the Pacific Ocean, including Siberia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia (excluding Papua).

Use for: Central Asia

• Here are entered works on the inland part of Asia, extending from the Caspian Sea in the west to, and including, northwestern China and Mongolia in the east, and from southern Siberia in the north to, and including, northern Iran and Afghanistan in the south, as well as works limited to the republics of former Soviet Central Asia treated collectively.

Use for: East Asia, Far East

• Here are entered works dealing collectively with China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Use for: South Asia, Indian Subcontinent, Indian Sub-continent

• Here are entered works on the subcontinent of India, which in addition to India includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan on the mainland, and Sri Lanka and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

Use for: South East Asia, Southeastern Asia

• Here are entered works dealing collectively with the mainland and insular regions of Asia lying south of China and east of India, including Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines.

Use for: Middle East, Western Asia, Western Asia

• Here are entered works on the region consisting of Asia west of Pakistan, northeastern Africa, and occasionally Greece, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Works treating collectively the Arabic-speaking countries of Asia and Africa, or of Asia only, are entered under [Arab countries.]

• A state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the country and is bounded to the north by the kingdom of Bhutan and the state of Arunachal Pradesh, to the east by the states of Nagaland and Manipur, to the south by the states of Mizoram and Tripura, and to the west by Bangladesh and the states of Meghalaya and West Bengal.

• the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Commonwealth of Australia dominion of the Commonwealth of Nations including the continent of Australia and the island of Tasmania.