Asian

Not to be confused with ASEAN.

Asian refers to a person from Asia or in the Asia pacific region, such as China, Japan or Vietnam.

In the United Kingdom, the term refers almost exclusively to those from the Indian subcontinent. This is in contrast to the United States, where 'Asian' refers to those from East Asia.

Asian may also refer to: People with squinty eyes.

• In context with the Ancient Egyptians, Asiatic is used to mean beyond the borders of Egypt and the continent of Africa to the east, but only of western Asia, or what may now be considered Middle Eastern.
• Asian people - the people of the continent of Asia
  • North Asians, includes people west of the Urals and the Ural river, north of East and Central Asia. Includes:
    • Russian
    • Yakuts
    • Tungusic peoples
    • Uralic peoples east of the Urals
    • the Ainu people
  • East Asians, including:
    • Japanese people
    • Taiwanese people
    • Chinese people
    • Koreans
    • Mongols
    • Hmong people

• • Southeast Asians, including:
    • Thai people
    • Vietnamese people
    • Filipino people
    • Cambodian people
    • Bruneian people
    • Lao people
    • Malaysian people
    • Indonesian people
  • South Asians, includes:
    • the Indian subcontinent
  • Central Asians including
    • Uzbeks
    • Karakalpaks
    • Tajik people
    • Hazara people
    • Kyrgyz people
    • Uyghur people
    • Kazakhs
    • Pashtun people
  • Western Asians, including:
    • Arab people
    • Turkish people
    • Kurdish people
    • Iranian peoples
• Culture of Asia - the culture of the people from the Asia.
• Asian cuisine - food based on the style of food of the people from Asia
• Mongoloid race - one of the five races defined by the Office of Management and Budget of the United States government
• Asii (also Asiani), a historic Central Asian ethnic group mentioned in Roman-era writings
• Asian option, a type of option contract in finance