The Great Wall, the Forbidden City, kung fu, tea, and more people than any other country on Earth, China, Cherry blossoms, samurai, sushi, anime, and Mount Fuji reflected in bullet train windows, Japan, K-pop, kimchi, Samsung, and ancient palaces sitting right next to neon city streets, South Korea, The world's most closed-off country, ruled by one family, known for massive military parades, North Korea, Vast open grasslands, nomadic horsemen, and the homeland of Genghis Khan, Mongolia, Night markets, bubble tea, and the island that makes most of the world's advanced computer chips, Taiwan, Golden temples, spicy street food, tropical beaches, and famously warm, welcoming people, Thailand, Rice paddies, stunning limestone islands rising from green water, and a country that outlasted every foreign army sent to conquer it, Vietnam, Over 17,000 islands, Bali, Komodo dragons, and the world's largest Muslim population, Indonesia, Over 7,600 islands, Spanish-era churches, colorful jeepneys, and the world's longest Christmas season, Philippines, The Petronas Twin Towers above Kuala Lumpur, and ancient rainforests sheltering orangutans in Borneo, Malaysia, A tiny, spotlessly clean city-state famous for incredible food courts, one of the world's best airports, and the Merlion, Singapore, Thousands of ancient temples rising from the plains of Bagan, and golden pagodas everywhere you look, Myanmar, Home to Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument ever built, swallowed and then reclaimed from the jungle, Cambodia, Monks collecting alms at sunrise along the Mekong River, in one of Southeast Asia's most unhurried countries, Laos, A tiny, oil-rich nation on Borneo ruled by one of the world's wealthiest royals, who lives in a palace with 1,700 rooms, Brunei, One of the newest countries in the world, gaining independence from Indonesia only in 2002, Timor-Leste, The Taj Mahal, Bollywood, sacred cows on busy streets, spices, and a civilization over 5,000 years old, India, Ancient Indus Valley ruins, the towering peaks of the Karakoram, and the call to prayer echoing across its cities, Pakistan, One of the most densely populated places on Earth, a flat river delta nation where the Ganges meets the sea, Bangladesh, A teardrop-shaped island south of India, famous for tea plantations, ancient Buddhist temples, and wild elephants, Sri Lanka, Eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including Everest, and the birthplace of the Buddha, Nepal, A Himalayan kingdom that measures happiness instead of GDP, and only got television in 1999, Bhutan, Overwater bungalows on coral atolls barely above sea level, slowly being swallowed by rising seas, Maldives, Rugged mountains, ancient Silk Road history, and a land that has resisted every empire that tried to hold it, Afghanistan, The world's largest landlocked country, vast steppe, and the launchpad the Soviet Union used to send the first human into space, Kazakhstan, The turquoise domes of Samarkand, the ancient Silk Road, and the empire of Tamerlane, Uzbekistan, One of the world's most secretive countries, and home to the Darvaza crater, a gas-fueled hole in the desert that has been burning for decades, Turkmenistan, Sky-high mountain passes, glacier valleys, and the ancient Pamir plateau known as the Roof of the World, Tajikistan, Nomadic yurt culture, crystal mountain lakes, and sweeping valleys in the Tian Shan range, Kyrgyzstan, One foot in Europe, one in Asia, with Istanbul's domes and minarets marking the former heart of two great empires, Turkey, Ancient Persia, intricate mosque tilework, the poetry of Rumi, and a proud civilization long predating Islam, Iran, The birthplace of Islam, guardian of Mecca and Medina, and the country whose oil reshaped the modern world, Saudi Arabia, Desert turned into a global showpiece, with Dubai's record-breaking towers and Abu Dhabi's boundless wealth, UAE, Ancient Mesopotamia, where the world's first cities, first writing, and first laws were born between the Tigris and Euphrates, Iraq, Damascus, one of the oldest cities on Earth, and a country defined in recent memory by the devastation of civil war, Syria, The ancient rose-red city of Petra carved into sandstone cliffs, and the Dead Sea where nothing sinks, Jordan, Tiny but cosmopolitan, famous for its food, its resilience, its cedar tree, and its beautifully complicated Beirut, Lebanon, A small country at the center of the world's oldest religious tensions, holy ground to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, Israel, Ancient frankincense trade routes and mudbrick skyscrapers, now home to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, Yemen, Dramatic desert landscapes, frankincense markets, fjord-like coastlines, and a reputation for calm in a turbulent region, Oman, A small, oil-rich Gulf state that the whole world watched when Iraq invaded it in 1990, Kuwait, A tiny peninsula with enormous gas wealth, the home of Al Jazeera, and the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar, A small island kingdom in the Gulf, the first Arab state to strike oil, and a financial hub between East and West, Bahrain, A Mediterranean island split in two since 1974, divided between Greek and Turkish communities by a UN buffer zone, Cyprus, One of the world's first Christian nations, shaped by its ancient church, a devastating 20th-century genocide, and Mount Ararat on the horizon, Armenia, The land of eternal flames and ancient fire worship, now an oil-exporting state with a gleaming futuristic capital in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ancient wine culture going back 8,000 years, a unique alphabet found nowhere else, and mountains that make it one of the Caucasus's most beautiful countries, Georgia.

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