Countries in Asia:

48

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:

  • Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas, dependencies) and Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)
# Country Population
(2025) 		Subregion
1 India 1,463,865,525 Southern Asia
2 China 1,416,096,094 Eastern Asia
3 Indonesia 285,721,236 South-Eastern Asia
4 Pakistan 255,219,554 Southern Asia
5 Bangladesh 175,686,899 Southern Asia
6 Japan 123,103,479 Eastern Asia
7 Philippines 116,786,962 South-Eastern Asia
8 Vietnam 101,598,527 South-Eastern Asia
9 Iran 92,417,681 Southern Asia
10 Turkey 87,685,426 Western Asia
11 Thailand 71,619,863 South-Eastern Asia
12 Myanmar 54,850,648 South-Eastern Asia
13 South Korea 51,667,029 Eastern Asia
14 Iraq 47,020,774 Western Asia
15 Afghanistan 43,844,111 Southern Asia
16 Yemen 41,773,878 Western Asia
17 Uzbekistan 37,053,428 Central Asia
18 Malaysia 35,977,838 South-Eastern Asia
19 Saudi Arabia 34,566,328 Western Asia
20 Nepal 29,618,118 Southern Asia
21 North Korea 26,571,036 Eastern Asia
22 Syria 25,620,427 Western Asia
23 Sri Lanka 23,229,470 Southern Asia
24 Kazakhstan 20,843,754 Central Asia
25 Cambodia 17,847,982 South-Eastern Asia
26 Jordan 11,520,684 Western Asia
27 United Arab Emirates 11,346,000 Western Asia
28 Tajikistan 10,786,734 Central Asia
29 Azerbaijan 10,397,713 Western Asia
30 Israel 9,517,181 Western Asia
31 Laos 7,873,046 South-Eastern Asia
32 Turkmenistan 7,618,847 Central Asia
33 Kyrgyzstan 7,295,034 Central Asia
34 Singapore 5,870,750 South-Eastern Asia
35 Lebanon 5,849,421 Western Asia
36 State of Palestine 5,589,623 Western Asia
37 Oman 5,494,691 Western Asia
38 Kuwait 5,026,078 Western Asia
39 Georgia 3,806,671 Western Asia
40 Mongolia 3,517,100 Eastern Asia
41 Qatar 3,115,889 Western Asia
42 Armenia 2,952,365 Western Asia
43 Bahrain 1,643,332 Western Asia
44 Timor-Leste 1,418,517 South-Eastern Asia
45 Cyprus 1,370,754 Western Asia
46 Bhutan 796,682 Southern Asia
47 Maldives 529,676 Southern Asia
48 Brunei 466,330 South-Eastern Asia

Dependencies or other territories

# Country Population
(2025) 		Dependency of
1 Taiwan 23,112,793 China
2 Hong Kong 7,396,076 China
3 Macao 722,007 China