And unfortunately there has been a regression in West Asia.

然而不幸的是亚洲西部呈现倒退迹象。

However, Asia is also a vast land, encompassing East, Southeast, South, and West Asia, each region significantly different from its neighbors.

而亚洲疆域亦很广大，包括了东亚、东南亚、南亚和西亚，各区域彼此之间差异相当大。

It's in Central Europe. It's in Asia. It's in the Middle East. It's in Africa. It's in the southeast of West Asia.

它在中欧。在亚洲。在中东。在非洲。在西亚的东南部。

This species originated from West Asia and has become the most important staple food for the Chinese.

这种原产于西亚的优良物种已经成为中国人最重要的主食。

Around 175 million young people in poor countries, one quarter of the youth population cannot read all or part of a sentence, affecting one third of young women in South and West Asia.

贫困国家有约1亿7千5百万年轻人，世界所有年轻人口的四分之一，无法看懂一整个句子，或句子的一部分，南亚和西亚三分之一的年轻女性深受影响。

Despite a rapid rise in attendance since 2000, 72m school-age children across the world are still not in school, half of them in sub-Saharan Africa and a quarter in South and West Asia.

尽管2000年以来儿童入学率增长迅速，世界上仍有7200万适龄儿童没有入学，一 半在撒哈拉以南之非洲地区，四分之一在南亚和西亚。

Communal burials first appeared in North Africa and West Asia around 10 to 15,000 years ago, around the same time as the first permanent settlements in these areas.

大约 10 到 15,000 年前，北非和西亚首次出现公墓，大约与这些地区的第一个永久定居点同时出现。