Countries in Asia:

There are 48 countries in Asia today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).

Not included in this total of "countries" and listed separately are:

Other entities, such as overseas territories, Crown Dependencies, autonomous regions and special administrative regions

#	Country	Population 2026	Subregion
1	India	1,476,625,576	Southern Asia
2	China	1,412,914,089	Eastern Asia
3	Indonesia	287,886,782	South-Eastern Asia
4	Pakistan	259,299,792	Southern Asia
5	Bangladesh	177,818,044	Southern Asia
6	Japan	122,427,731	Eastern Asia
7	Philippines	117,724,472	South-Eastern Asia
8	Vietnam	102,177,431	South-Eastern Asia
9	Iran	93,168,497	Southern Asia
10	Turkey (Türkiye)	87,926,082	Western Asia
11	Thailand	71,559,614	South-Eastern Asia
12	Myanmar	55,184,819	South-Eastern Asia
13	South Korea	51,600,388	Eastern Asia
14	Iraq	48,007,437	Western Asia
15	Afghanistan	45,047,068	Southern Asia
16	Yemen	42,961,653	Western Asia
17	Uzbekistan	37,724,223	Central Asia
18	Malaysia	36,385,115	South-Eastern Asia
19	Saudi Arabia	35,165,787	Western Asia
20	Nepal	29,629,410	Southern Asia
21	North Korea	26,633,691	Eastern Asia
22	Syria	26,472,497	Western Asia
23	Sri Lanka	23,348,315	Southern Asia
24	Kazakhstan	21,083,626	Central Asia
25	Cambodia	18,051,219	South-Eastern Asia
26	Jordan	11,589,532	Western Asia
27	United Arab Emirates	11,574,682	Western Asia
28	Tajikistan	10,978,598	Central Asia
29	Azerbaijan	10,454,855	Western Asia
30	Israel	9,647,689	Western Asia
31	Laos	7,974,018	South-Eastern Asia
32	Turkmenistan	7,736,632	Central Asia
33	Kyrgyzstan	7,400,464	Central Asia
34	Singapore	5,905,748	South-Eastern Asia
35	Lebanon	5,897,467	Western Asia
36	State of Palestine	5,692,790	Western Asia
37	Oman	5,671,458	Western Asia
38	Kuwait	5,102,773	Western Asia
39	Georgia	3,804,642	Western Asia
40	Mongolia	3,556,798	Eastern Asia
41	Qatar	3,173,559	Western Asia
42	Armenia	2,930,915	Western Asia
43	Bahrain	1,675,572	Western Asia
44	Timor-Leste	1,436,923	South-Eastern Asia
45	Cyprus	1,382,334	Western Asia
46	Bhutan	802,214	Southern Asia
47	Maldives	531,517	Southern Asia
48	Brunei	469,775	South-Eastern Asia

Other entities

#	Country	Population 2026	Status
1	Taiwan	23,011,292	Not a member or observer state of the UN
2	Hong Kong	7,378,602	Special Administrative Region of China
3	Macao	723,188	Special Administrative Region of China

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