Look up Eurasia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Look up Eurasian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Eurasia or Eurasian may refer to:
- Eurasia, landmass containing the traditional continents of Europe and Asia
- Eurasian Plate, a tectonic plate
- Eurasian Steppe, an ecoregion
- People having mixed European and Asian (particularly East/Southeast Asian) ancestry, primarily associated with the following ethnic groups:
- Eurasian Singaporeans
- Anglo-Burmese people, of Burmese and European descent
- Anglo-Indian people, of mixed Indian and British ancestry
- Filipino Mestizos, of mixed Filipino and Spanish ancestry
- Indo people, of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent
- Luso-Asians, umbrella term for people of mixed Portuguese and Asian descent
- Burgher people in Sri Lanka, of partial Portuguese and Dutch ancestry
- Kristang people a.k.a. Portuguese-Eurasians, of mixed Portuguese and Malaccan descent
- Luso-Indians, of mixed Indian and Portuguese ancestry
- Macanese people, of mixed predominantly Cantonese and Portuguese ancestry
- Eurasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a fictional superstate or country in Orwell's novel, which consists of Europe and Northern Asia.
- Eurasianism, a geopolitical doctrine espoused by Zyuganov, Dugin and Primakov amongst others
- Eurasia (TV series), a 2003 Japanese-French history documentary series
- Eurasia (train), a name of electric multiple unit ESh2 manufactured by Stadler KISS
Buildings:
- Eurasia (skyscraper), in Moscow, Russia
- Eurasia Shopping Mall, a shopping mall located in Changchun, China
- Eurasia Tunnel, road tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey, crossing underneath the Bosphorus strait
Organisations:
- Eurasian Economic Union (est. 2015), an economic union of post-Soviet states
- Eurasia Group (est. 1998), a global political risk consultancy
- Eurasia Foundation (est. 2009), a Japanese based non-profit
- Eurasia Foundation Central Asia, a U.S. based non-profit
- Eurasia Aviation Corporation, a former Chinese airline
See also
- Afro-Asians, people of mixed African and Asian ancestry
- Amerasian, people born in Asia to an Asian mother and a U.S. military father
- Euronesian, people of mixed European and either Polynesian, Melanesian or Micronesian descent
- Hāfu (loanword from English half), a person ethnically half Japanese and half non-Japanese of any background
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