Banknotes of Asia

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Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world. It took about 30% of the world’s land (17,212,000 squared miles) and 60% of the population (4.5 billion people). Asia consists of Russia as the biggest country, and China has the most populous in the world in its continent. Asia is located within the Eastern and the Northern Hemisphere. It borders 3 enormous Arctic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. Asia was separated into 6 different regions like South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia (Middle East), Central Asia, and North Asia.

Asia has certainly diversity in climate from most humid weather in the South and Southeast to extremely frozen in the North. Siberia is one of the coldest countries in the world for example. Additionally, the Western Asia is where some of the largest temperature ranges frequently occurs.

Asia’s banknotes were famous because of their colorfulness, various, and long history. The first banknote was created in China in the 7th century. Then, it was brought to Europe by a traveler named Marco Polo in the 13th century. Despite the devastation during the war, many countries in Asia still had their official currency. Likewise, many of them had been introduced as one of the most beautiful banknotes in the world according to Buzzfeed such as the Yen-banknotes in Japan, and the Indian Rupee with Mahatma Gandhi's portrait hero of India. Interestingly, some countries not only share the same currency type such as the Rupee in India, Indonesia, Maldives, and Sri Lanka,...but also they shared the same religion.