Asian

Geographically and technically, both Asian and Asiatic indicates a person, place, thing, or idea original to Asia. In common English parlance, however, the term Asian is often used to indicate people from, and places in, only one part of Asia -- typically East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam), Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand) or South Asia (Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, The Maldives), and sometimes also Central Asia (Afghanistan, Mongolia, Tibet, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan).