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The most numerous peoples of Eurasia. Population of Eurasia: numbers and distribution

To begin with, it is necessary to note that Eurasia is not only the largest continent on the planet (for reference: the area of ​​the continent is about 54 million sq. km), but Eurasia also holds the palm in terms of the number of people living on it - more than five billion people, and this 2/3 of all inhabitants of the Earth. Below I will list the most numerous peoples inhabiting Eurasia.

The most numerous peoples of Asia

There would be no need to say who is in first place, because everyone knows that they are the Chinese. There are more than 1 billion 350 million people. But then you need to be very precise, although everyone also knows that these are Indians, but clarification is required as to which nationality. Hindustani believe there are more than 265 million of them. There are more than a quarter of a billion Bengalis. There are more than 130 million militant Punjabis. There are the same number of Japanese. Surely, few people have heard that there is such a people as the Biharis, and, by the way, there are more than 115 million of them.


Nations of Asia with populations less than 100 million

There are many more peoples living in Asia, the number of which is approaching 100 million. I will note only those closest to this figure:

  • Vietnamese - more than 94 million of them;
  • Thais - there are more than 90 million of them;
  • there are slightly fewer Koreans from both Korean countries - almost 84 million;
  • There is also a large ethnic group in India - the Marathas, of whom there are 83 million.

Who is leading in Europe

Despite the rather strong differences in dialects, customs and even everyday habits, they consider themselves a single nation - these are the Germans. Today there are more than 95 million. Next come the peoples of Italy, who differ no less strongly in the above characteristics. Italians - about 75 million. And another equally diverse nationality is the French, there are more than 65 million of them.


And, finally, Russians are a people, most of whom live in the European part of Eurasia, but, nevertheless, there are many Russians in the Asian part of the mainland. The number of Russians is more than 111 million people.

Africa and Eurasia are territories that are considered the ancestral homeland of man. If we take into account the data from 2016, then about 5175 million people lived in this part of the world, 739 million of them were from Europe, and 4436 million were from Asia. In general, 2/3 of the world's population is located on this continent. Since the natural conditions of Eurasia are uneven, the population is also unevenly distributed.

Most people live on those lands where there are fertile soils and comfortable climatic conditions. Such territories include the lower reaches of Asian rivers and the Mediterranean.

The density of Eurasia is 95 people per 1 sq. km. The most populated areas of the world are located here. For example, the Indo-Gangetic lowland is characterized by a population density of 1,000 people per sq. km. More than one billion people live here. Such densely populated areas include: the island of Java, the Sichuan basin, the Great Chinese Plain and the Tokaido region of Japan.

The most populous countries: Macau - 21,352 people per sq. km, Monaco - 19,010 people per sq. km, Singapore - 7,697 people per sq. km. Cities in Eurasia are characterized by rapidly increasing population densities. Population of mainland countries: Shanghai - 24,200,000 people, Karachi - 23,500,000 people, Mumbai - 22,000,000 people, Beijing - 21,500,000 people and Delhi 18,600,000 people.

In this part of the planet there are also areas that are characterized by low density and population. Such lands include desert and highland areas: Gobi, Tibet, and the Arabian Peninsula. Mongolia should also be noted, because in such a state the population density is only 2 people per sq. km. In Iceland - 3 people per 1 sq km. There are also countries on the Eurasian continent that are characterized by a population density of only one person per 1 sq. km.

Racial and ethnic composition

The mainland's population is diverse, with many different ethnic groups and races. Most of all there are representatives of the Mongoloid and Caucasian races. The latter live in South, South-West Asia, Europe, and the former live in Central and East Asia. There is also a population of the Negroid race, which is located in the southern part of the Hindustan Peninsula and in Sri Lanka.

It should also be said about the multi-ethnicity of Eurasia. The mainland is inhabited by completely different different peoples, which form their own language groups, families.

The European population almost entirely belongs to the Indo-European language family, which includes Slavic, Germanic and Romance groups. If we talk about Asia, then people form the Sino-Tibetan language family, which consists of Tibeto-Burman and Chinese groups.

The largest peoples of Eurasia are considered to be the Chinese, Bengalis, Japanese, Hindustanis, and Biharis. Almost all states of the mainland are multinational. Indonesia and India include about 150 nations, the Philippines - 100, Vietnam and China - 50, Iran and Thailand - 30 nations. Monoethnic countries are practically an exception for this part of the planet. Japan can be included here, because it consists of 98.5% of the titular nation, and Iceland - 98.99%. The diversity of ethnic groups is increasing along with the division of peoples along state borders. For example, the Kurds are located in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran. Afghans live in Pakistan and Afghanistan, while Bengalis live in Pakistan and India.

Religious composition of the population

Heterogeneity - characteristic For religious composition Eurasia. For example, almost all world religions are practiced in Foreign Asia. Islam is the leader in Western and South-West Asia. Hinduism is also widespread - India, Buddhism - Mongolia, China, Japan, Korea, Judaism - Israel. The European population professes Christianity.

The peoples of Eurasia make up almost three-quarters of the world's total population. The mainland is home to a large number of different ethnic groups, which differ appearance, mentality, culture and language.

Each people of Eurasia belongs to a specific language family, which, in turn, is divided into groups. The speech of each people in the family is similar and comes from one common proto-language. Languages ​​in the same group sometimes differ only in pronunciation or spelling.

Most languages ​​were formed territorially. This explains the fact that different peoples of Eurasia have almost the same or similar speech. There is a hypothesis that ancient people developed their speech by listening to the sounds of wildlife in the area, and therefore some languages ​​are very similar to the sounds that animals make.

Classification of the languages ​​of the peoples of Eurasia

To date, 7 language families have been recorded, which unite all the languages ​​and dialects of the peoples living on the mainland. Each of these families is divided into linguistic groups of the peoples of Eurasia. There are 17 of them.

All languages ​​are divided into:

1. Indo-European family:

  • Slavic group (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Czech and Bulgarian);
  • Germanic group (English, German, Norwegian and Swedish);
  • Baltic group (Lithuanian and Latvian);
  • Romanesque group (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian);
  • Celtic group (Irish);
  • Greek group (Greek);
  • Iranian group (Tajik, Afghan and Ossetian);
  • Indo-Aryan group (Hindustani and Nepali);
  • Armenian group (Armenian);

2.Kartvelian family (Georgian).

3. Afro-Asian family:

  • Semitic group (Arabic);

4. Ural-Yukogir family:

  • Finno-Ugric group (Hungarian, Estonian and Finnish);

5. Altai family:

  • Turkic group (Turkish, Kazakh and Kyrgyz);
  • Mongolian group (Mongolian and Buryat);
  • Japanese group (Japanese);
  • Korean group (Korean);

6. Sino-Tibetan family (Chinese);

7. North Caucasian family:

  • Abkhaz-Adyghe group (Abkhaz and Adyghe);
  • Nakh-Dagestan group (Chechen).

How did the languages ​​of the peoples of Eurasia develop?

The most ancient civilizations were created and developed on the Eurasian continent: India, China and Mesopotamia. They gave development to all other peoples, their states, culture, traditions and speech.

It did not stop, but people settled, exploring new lands, inventing new words and expressions. This is how language groups appeared, and then families. Each people of Eurasia developed the existing speech in its own way. People living in different places began to call the same things by different names. This is how dialects appeared, which then turned into full-fledged languages. Linguists divided all languages ​​into families and groups for easier study.

Indo-European language family

The largest language family in the world is the Indo-European family. These languages ​​are spoken by many peoples of Eurasia.

This language family owes its popularity to its conquerors and pioneers. Indo-European languages ​​were born in Eurasia, and it is considered the birthplace of all humanity, along with Africa. People explored new territories and captured the indigenous peoples of other continents, then imposed their culture and language on them. Each people of Eurasia at that time tried to subjugate more territories and people. Many scientists associate such a wide spread of Spanish, English and Russian with historical events.

How are Chinese and Japanese languages ​​different?

A common mistake many people make is to assume Chinese and Japanese languages similar or almost the same. These two languages ​​are in different language families for a reason. People living in Japan and China are completely different, although they belong to the same race. Each of these countries is a separate people of Eurasia, with its own culture and language.

If the hieroglyphs themselves that are used to write in these countries are quite difficult to distinguish, this does not mean that the languages ​​are the same. Their first difference is that the Japanese write vertically, and the Chinese write horizontally.

To the ear, Japanese speech is much rougher than Chinese. Chinese filled soft sounds. Japanese speech is harsher. A deeper study will show that the words in these languages ​​are different, as well as grammar and other rules.

Slavic languages

Slavic languages ​​- language group Indo-European family. These languages ​​are very similar. Speakers of Slavic languages ​​can often understand each other almost without difficulty, while speaking different languages. This is especially true for Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian speech.

They began to develop with the advent of the first Slavic tribes. Each tribe used its own dialect. The greater the distance between them, the more differences appeared in speech.

All Slavic languages ​​are divided into eastern, western and southern. This division occurs territorially, just like the division of tribes.

Of the other representatives of the Indo-European language family, the closest to the Slavic is the Baltic group. Many scientists explain this by the long communication between representatives of these tribes.

Peoples living on the continent

In fact, there are a lot of peoples living on the mainland, but if we generalize, they can be conditionally divided by race into 2 groups: Caucasian and Mongoloid. And these groups, in turn, are divided into subgroups.

Caucasian race, consisting of the following groups:

  • Slavic;
  • Baltic;
  • Germanic;
  • Greek;
  • Armenian;
  • Finno-Ugric.

Mongoloid race:

  • Turkic;
  • Mongolian;
  • Korean;
  • Japanese;
  • Chukotka-Kamchatka;
  • Sino-Tibetan.

Of course, there are many more ethnic groups and tribes living in Eurasia.

Peoples of Eurasia: countries

It is perhaps impossible to list all the countries of the continent within the framework of a single article, because there are about 99 of them! But it is worth mentioning the largest of them. Probably everyone knows that the largest state on the mainland is Russia. It is impossible not to mention India and China, countries with the highest population density.

As for the smallest states, they are mainly located in the western territories of the mainland. For example, unique public education considered the Vatican. The list of dwarf countries includes Liechtenstein, Andorra, Luxembourg and Monaco. The smallest countries in Asia are Brunei, Maldives and Bahrain.

Eurasia is considered the most colorful continent on the planet, of course! Its territory occupies 3/4 of the world's population with different skin colors, their own culture and traditions.

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Eurasia, like , is considered the ancestral homeland of man.
About 4.7 billion people live in Eurasia, which is 75% of the population of the entire Earth.
The mainland is huge. It features a variety of natural conditions, therefore the distribution of people across its territory is very uneven. Densely populated areas are located where favorable and fertile soils are combined. Such conditions in Eurasia are observed in the lower reaches of large rivers in Asia. Almost all of Europe is densely populated. The most populous country in the world is Monaco. There are more than 17 thousand people per 1 km2.

However, there are also sparsely populated areas on the mainland. These are mostly mountains and deserts.
The lowest population density is in Mongolia. 2 people live here per 1 sq. km.

At the same time, there are also almost deserted areas - these are Tibet, the Gobi Desert, numerous mountain systems and the Arabian Peninsula.

Speaking about the distribution of the population of Eurasia, one cannot help but recall giant cities such as Rome, London, Paris, Moscow, Shanghai, and Beijing.
Also on the mainland is the second largest city in the world - Tokyo - the capital of Japan, its population exceeds 20 million people.
The population of Eurasia varies significantly in terms of race and ethnic composition, nature of accommodation, types economic activity.
The racial composition is dominated by representatives of the Caucasian and Mongoloid races. Europe, South-West and South Asia are inhabited by Caucasians, and Central and East Asia- Mongoloids.

Let's remember distinctive features representatives of every race. The northern branch of the Caucasian race is characterized by light skin color, soft hair, a narrow nose, and blue or gray eyes.
And representatives of the southern branch have dark skin, dark hair and brown eyes.
Representatives of the Mongoloid race usually have yellowish skin, coarse black hair, and black eyes. The face is wide with prominent cheekbones, narrow eyes.

There are 94 states on the political map of Eurasia.
The uniqueness of the Eurasian continent lies in the fact that the largest and smallest states in terms of population and size are located here.
China ranks first in the world in terms of population, India second. More than a billion people live in these countries.
And in Vatican City, the smallest state in the world, only 836 people live.
The largest country in the world by area is Russia. Its area is 17,098,242 km², which is 2 times larger than the area of ​​the mainland Australia.
But the smallest state in terms of area is the Vatican. The area of ​​the state is only 0.44 sq. km. The Vatican City is a dwarf enclave state (a state surrounded by another country) located in the northwestern part of Rome. The Vatican is surrounded on all sides by Italian territory. total length state border is 3.2 kilometers.
Dwarf states include San Marino, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta, Singapore, etc.

By form of government, most countries in Eurasia are republics.
There are also monarchies on the mainland. There are 14 monarchical states in Asia, and 12 such monarchies in Europe.
The largest monarchies in Europe are Great Britain and Spain.
For most European countries characteristic high level economic development, characterized high level income and quality of life of the population. These include the UK, Germany, France, Japan and many others. Manufacturing industries are concentrated in these countries.
At the same time, on the mainland you can also find extremely poor countries such as Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, etc.

If we characterize the ratio of urban and rural populations, then Europe is a more urbanized part of the world than Asia. In Europe, the urban population accounts for 80% of the population.
In most Asian countries it predominates rural population. Urban population is only 34%. However, in countries such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the main population is represented by urban residents.

Population of Eurasia!*

Eurasia is the largest continent on the planet both in terms of area and number of inhabitants. Structurally, it is divided into two parts of the world: Europe and

Total population!

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Total number Eurasia's population is 4.6 billion
Human! This, by the way, is three quarters of all residents of our
planets. Moreover, it is extremely distributed across the continent.
unevenly. The average population density of Eurasia is about
90 people per square kilometer of area.
Vast expanses of the continent (Siberia, the far north, the Himalayas and
Tibet, interior of the Arabian Peninsula and others)
practically uninhabited. In some areas the population density
may be as low as 1 person per square kilometer. At the same
the whole place is very populated Western Europe, the coast of Southeast Asia, the island of Great Britain, etc. For example, the density
The population in Singapore is 4000 people/km2.

Numbers in Eurasia!

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Name
Number of
million
Capital
China
1373
Beijing
India
1280
New Delhi
Indonesia
258
Jakarta
Pakistan
191
Islamabad
Bangladesh
159
Dhaka
Russia
146
Moscow
Japan
127
Tokyo
Philippines
101
Manila
Vietnam
92
Hanoi
Germany
82
Berlin

A little about Eurasia!

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Eurasia!

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1) about 75% of the world lives on the Eurasian continent
population;
2) the population of Eurasia is represented by all three
the races of our planet;
3) the ethnic composition of the continent’s population is very
varied and colorful;
4) Eurasia is home to three of the world's largest
religions;
5) most of the mainland’s population (over 60%)
lives in big cities.