A native or inhabitant of Asia; Also called: Asiatic.
Native to or an inhabitant of the continent of Asia, which is the contiguous land mass east of the Ural Mountains, the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia. The region is culturally heterogenous with numerous distinctive ethnic and sociolinguistic groups, totaling over half the Earth's human population (including China, India, and Japan). Asians are of three main racial stocks: Mongoloid in the east; Caucasoid in the west; and Negroid in the Philippines and off-shore islands of the Indian Ocean. The Indians of the Americas were Asian migrants to the New World during the last Ice Age.