AHC: European Region in Asia

The problem is that as Russian Far East demonstrates as soon as a place is filled with white people it stops being Asia.
For example what exactly makes Siberia not Asian but Manchuria Asia?
Why is Indonesia part of Asia including West Papua but Australia isn't?
I am willing to bet that if the Russian Far East was Northern China it would count as part of Asia. Similarly if Russia had ever acquired Hokkaido and filled it with Europeans it wouldn't be "Asian" any more.
Asia and Europe can't be defined geographically instead Europe is where Europeans are, Asia is where Asians are.

Exactly. It would be plausible to have shifted the border between China and Russia around sometime during the 19th Century to result in Russia colonizing a stretch of, say, what is northern Xinjiang or Heilongjiang in OTL and filling it with Russian and Ukrainian settlers. However, from the perspective of that timeline, those same regions that are firmly Chinese (and thus East Asian) to us would then be seen as "North Asian" by virtue of Russian sovereignty.
 
Exactly. It would be plausible to have shifted the border between China and Russia around sometime during the 19th Century to result in Russia colonizing a stretch of, say, what is northern Xinjiang or Heilongjiang in OTL and filling it with Russian and Ukrainian settlers. However, from the perspective of that timeline, those same regions that are firmly Chinese (and thus East Asian) to us would then be seen as "North Asian" by virtue of Russian sovereignty.

I'd think they'd be seen as Central Asian, since IOTL the Xinjiang region, while part of an East Asian country is often considered part of Central Asia, like how even though Gibraltar is in South-West Europe/Mediterannean, the country it's part of is considered either North-West or North Europe.
 
I'd think they'd be seen as Central Asian, since IOTL the Xinjiang region, while part of an East Asian country is often considered part of Central Asia, like how even though Gibraltar is in South-West Europe/Mediterannean, the country it's part of is considered either North-West or North Europe.

Gibraltar isn't part of the UK.
 
Really? I'd argue that the definition of Asia to the average American is purely East and South-East Asia. Pakistan gets shoved in with the Middle-East and South Asia is vaguely put off in a category of it's own.
Nobody says South Asia. India is definitely recognized as Asia. The Middle East is known to be part of Asia even though Pakistan is called the Middle East (rightfully because it's majority Muslim and that's the defining characteristic of the Middle East).
 
If Suez Canal were built 200 years earlier:

The Philippines could have been populated more by Europeans mostly from Spain had the Spaniards encourage "free-style" immigration to the Philippines instead of neglecting them. Therefore, with more Europeans (mostly from Andalucia and Galicia probably), and also additional influx of immigrants from China, the Philippines could have been like Cuba or Puerto Rico.
 
If Suez Canal were built 200 years earlier:

The Philippines could have been populated more by Europeans mostly from Spain had the Spaniards encourage "free-style" immigration to the Philippines instead of neglecting them. Therefore, with more Europeans (mostly from Andalucia and Galicia probably), and also additional influx of immigrants from China, the Philippines could have been like Cuba or Puerto Rico.
Actually, the Spanish would have a better opinion of the Philippines if they lost the rebellious Northern part of it, which had a large portion of it's population, majority of Luzon wasn't really a part of the Philippines but rather defacto a a separate colony named Nueva Ecija which failed to be recognized by the King of Spain due to poverty.
 
Actually, the Spanish would have a better opinion of the Philippines if they lost the rebellious Northern part of it, which had a large portion of it's population, majority of Luzon wasn't really a part of the Philippines but rather defacto a a separate colony named Nueva Ecija which failed to be recognized by the King of Spain due to poverty.

Would be absorbed by Manila-led Philippines later like Yucatan had absorbed by Mexico.
 
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