1. Did you know that Asia is where the majority of people in the world currently live? And that this fact is projected to stay this way for the entire 21st century!

2. Asia takes up a third of the global land mass!

3. Only two countries in the world, India and China, have a population over 1 billion people, and both of them are in Asia.

4. According to the Guardian, as of 2012, there were more millionaires in Tokyo, Japan (461,000), than in New York City (389,000). https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/may/08/cities-top-millionaires-billionaires 

5. Lastly, when ranking cities worldwide by the number of multi-millionaires OR even billionaires, half of the top 10 cities are also, you guessed it, in Asia!