Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. It covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With about 900 million people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population.  It is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans, as allegedly evidenced by the discovery of the earliest known human fossils.
Picture right: African Elephants

Africa boasts perhaps the world's largest combination of density and "range of freedom" of wild animal populations and diversity, with wild populations of large carnivores, such as lions, hyenas, and cheetahs, herbivores, such as buffalo, deer, elephants, camels, and giraffes ranging freely. It is also home to a variety of jungle creatures, snakes, primates and aquatic life, including crocodiles and amphibians. (wikipedia)

Many ethnic groups have existed in China. In terms of numbers, however, the pre-eminent ethnic group is the Han Chinese. Throughout history, many groups have been assimilated into neighboring ethnicities or disappeared without a trace. At the same time, many within the Han identity have maintained distinct linguistic and regional cultural traditions. Much of the traditional cultural identity within the community has to do with distinguishing the family name.

Imperial Chinese
During Qing Dynasty

Asia enjoys a diverse culture

Indonesian Gongs

Sushi L-R:
nigiri, makizushi

The Japanese have developed a sophisticated and refined cuisine highly sensitive to the change of seasons. They enjoy a variety of traditional food, including rice and miso soup, as well as many seafood dishes (sushi and sashimi for instance), and foreign dishes. Japanese food is popular in the U.S. and Europe. It has the reputation of being low in calories and otherwise healthy, which is potentially related to the longevity of Japanese people.

The demographics of Australia show it to be one of the most urbanised populations in the world; the majority of Australians live on the coast. Australia's cities are melting pots of different cultures. The influence of the longer-established southern European communities in particular has been pervasive. The great post-World War II influx of both English and non English-speaking migrants from England,

Sydney
Harbour
Bridge
and
Opera
House

Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Germany, Former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Malta, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South-East Asia has had a significant impact. Lesser numbers of immigrants have come from the African and American continents.