A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ASIA

Sun, 22 Jun '25
One side of the Bosporus Strait
Mon, 26 May '25
Where India and Indonesia are
Mon, 19 May '25
Home of China and India
Wed, 30 Apr '25
Where pandas are native
Fri, 25 Apr '25
Turkey's Cape Baba is its westernmost point
Sun, 30 Mar '25
Its southernmost point, Pamana Island, is more than 750 miles below the Equator
Wed, 19 Mar '25
Where most of Turkey is
Mon, 3 Mar '25
Thailand's continent
Wed, 25 Dec '24
Where most of the world's rice and tea is grown
Wed, 27 Nov '24
Home of the highest and lowest points on the earth's surface
Wed, 18 Sep '24
Roughly 75% of Russia is in it
Thu, 8 Aug '24
Setting for the FIFA World Cups of 2002 and 2022
Wed, 19 Jun '24
"Never get involved in a land war in ___" (advice in "The Princess Bride")
Fri, 10 May '24
The East, to the West
Mon, 25 Mar '24
Where Mandarin and Malay are spoken
Tue, 20 Feb '24
Afghan's place
Wed, 14 Feb '24
Where the five most widely practiced religions originated
Sun, 10 Dec '23
Green region on a Risk board
Fri, 29 Sep '23
Birthplace of the world's major religions
Fri, 22 Sep '23
Largest in a septet
Wed, 30 Aug '23
bingeing subtitled dramas from ___, and
Mon, 7 Aug '23
Home of Mongolia and Myanmar
Sun, 6 Aug '23
Section of an atlas
Fri, 12 May '23
___ Minor
Wed, 8 Mar '23
___ Minor
Mon, 7 Nov '22
Where India is
Wed, 15 Jun '22
Home of 66-Across
Wed, 11 May '22
Home to about 60% of the world's population
Tue, 10 May '22
The East
Mon, 2 May '22
China's continent
Wed, 13 Apr '22
Mt. Fuji setting
Wed, 23 Mar '22
Home to more than 2,300 languages
Sun, 20 Mar '22
___-Pacific
Thu, 24 Feb '22
Home for the Himalayas
Sun, 6 Feb '22
Locale of the 2002 and 2022 World Cups
Mon, 17 Jan '22
Home to the Hang Seng and Nikkei 225 indexes
Mon, 27 Dec '21
Home of seven -stans
Tue, 12 Oct '21
Region traveled by 63-Across
Sun, 8 Aug '21
China holder?
Thu, 22 Jul '21
Land of plenty?
Sat, 22 May '21
Home to 41-Down
Tue, 9 Feb '21
Home to more than 4.5 billion
Tue, 19 Jan '21
Difficult area to maintain control of in the game Risk
Thu, 14 Jan '21
Home of Baikal, the world's deepest lake
Tue, 5 Jan '21
Locale of both the highest and lowest points on the earth's surface