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Asia vs Transcaucasia - What's the difference?

asia | transcaucasia |

As proper nouns the difference between asia and transcaucasia

is that asia is asia while transcaucasia is (region of southwest asia).

asia

English

(wikipedia Asia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
  • (Greek God) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
  • (astronomy) Short for , a main belt asteroid.
  • of modern usage, from the continent.
  • * 1994 , Girl: A Novel , Simon&Schuster, ISBN 0671897071, page 81
    • And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia , who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.
  • (historical) A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.

    • Related terms

    * Asia Minor * Asian * Asiaphile * Asiatic * Australasia * Central Asia * East Asia * South Asia * Southeast Asia

    See also

    * *

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ia ----

    transcaucasia

    English

    (wikipedia Transcaucasia)

    Alternative forms

    * Transcaucasus

    Proper noun

    (-)
  • Mountainous region of southwest Asia, lying south of Caucasus Mountains and comprising republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Also known as South Caucasus.

    • Synonyms

    * South Caucasus