Asia is the largest continent.

Asia is the largest continent, with a land area of more than 17 million square miles, comprising about 30 percent of Earth's total land area. Geographically, Asia is a continent of extremes: the polar Arctic expanse of Siberia; the tropical rain forests of Thailand; the fertile, productive land of the Indian subcontinent; the untilleds of Mongolia, central Asia, parts of China, and the vast Arabian Peninsula. Asia is fireside to the world's highest mountains, sometimes called "the arch of the world." Asia's lowest elevation is the Dead Sea (1310 ft below sea level) a saltwater lake shared through Jordan and ...