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Yemen

A recent edit included a mention of Yemen's size including African territory. I had a quick look at Yemen and Geography of Yemen, where the apparent info of both indicated the country is fully in Asia. Both pages had however also been subjected to vandalism today, with references to Asia being replaced by clearly incorrect references to Africa. I reverted those edits and somewhat by association went on to revert the claim on this page about Yemen's African area. I did note however that Yemen mentions without further specification the country is transcontinental. List of transcontinental countries#Asia_and_Africa goes on to claim the Socotra archipelago is in Africa rather than Asia, which from visual inspection of a map seems reasonable; there is no source provided. However, even if this is correct, the area of Socotra (3,796 km2) is presumably already included in the given area of Yemen, so the correct way to show that would be to list the nation's Asian area as 524,190 km2 (527,968 km2 - 3,796 km2), and then give the total area in the comment. I'm reluctant to do this myself without a source, but wanted to place this note here to say the edits I reverted on this page may have had some merit after all. Laanders (talk) 15:22, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Percentages?

Maybe there should be a column for percentage area of Asia (like there is in the article for Asian countries by population)

Can the list be made sortable?

Can the list be made sortable? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 18:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Akrotiri and Dhekelia, BIOT, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Hong Kong, and Macau

Are these territories part of Asia? If they are, why are they excluded from the list? 1.64.48.231 (talk) 16:42, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

China

Taiwan is not a disputed territory but a country. Please make sure the CCP doesn't completely take over Wikipedia.