Fast Facts

Main Languages: While every Asian country has its own national language, English is widely spoken and understood by the literate people. In addition to these, each region of the Asian countries has its specific regional language that is hard to understand by people of other regions. While exploring Asia, it’s better to have a basic idea of the regional languages.

When to Go: Asia is a vast continent and the climatic conditions vary from one country to another country. Though most of the destinations can be visited round the year, but it is better to know about the weather of country and best season of travel. 

Local Transport: Bestowed with a huge geographical area, Asia presents a fine conglomeration of various modes of local transportation ranging from flights, trains and buses to cycle-rickshaws. Taxis, cars and auto-rickshaws are other modes of local transport in Asia. Usually the modes of local transport differ with each country and even within the varied regions of the country.

Time Zone: Every country in Asia follows an individual time zone according to its geographical location and political area. Like India’s time zone is 5.30 ahead of GMT, while time zone of the neighbouring country of Afghanistan is 4.30 ahead of GMT. The time zones of the Asian countries vary from UTC +2 to UTC +12.