List of impact craters in Asia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

s in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

includes all confirmed impact craters as listed in the Earth Impact Database

Earth Impact Database

The Earth Impact Database is the authoritative source for information on confirmed impact structures or craters on Earth. It was initiated in 1955 by the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, under the direction of Dr. Carlyle S. Beals...

. These features were caused by the collision of large meteorites or comets with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to an estimate of original rim

Rim (craters)

The rim of a crater is the part that extends above the height of the local surface, usually in a circular or elliptical pattern. In a more specific sense, the rim may refer to the circular or elliptical edge that represents the uppermost tip of this raised portion...

diameter, and may not correspond to present surface features.

Name	Location	Diameter	Age (years)	Coordinates
Beyenchime-Salaatin Beyenchime-Salaatin crater Beyenchime-Salaatin is an impact crater at 71° 50' N, 123° 30' E in the Russian Far East.It is in diameter and is estimated to be 40 ± 20 million years old . The crater is exposed at the surface.- References :...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	8 km	40 ± 20 million	71°0′N 121°40′E
Bigach Bigach crater Bigach is an impact crater in Kazakhstan.It is 8 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 5 ± 3 million years . The crater is exposed at the surface....	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	8 km	5 ± 3 million	48°34′N 82°1′E
Chiyli Chiyli crater Chiyli is an impact crater in Kazakhstan.It is 5.5 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 46 ± 7 million years . The crater is exposed at the surface.- External links :* at NASA Earth Observatory...	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	5.5 km	46 ± 7 million	49°10′N 57°51′E
Chukcha Chukcha crater Chukcha is an impact crater in Taimyr Peninsula, Russia.It is 6 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be less than 70 million years old . The crater is exposed to the surface.- References :...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	6 km	< 70 million	75°42′N 97°48′E
El'gygytgyn	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	18 km	3.5 ± 0.5 million	67°30′N 172°5′E
Kara Kara crater Kara is a meteor crater in the Yugorsky Peninsula, Nenetsia, Russia.It is 65 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 70.3 ± 2.2 million years old . Impactite outcrops located on the Baydarata Gulf shore north-east of the crater imply that the original size of the crater, now greatly...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	65 km	70.3 ± 2.2 million	69°6′N 64°9′E
Karakul	Tajikistan Tajikistan Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....	52 km	< 5 million	39°1′N 73°27′E
Logancha Logancha crater Logancha is a meteorite crater in Siberia, Russia.It is in diameter and the age is estimated to be 40 million years old . The crater is not exposed at the surface.- References :...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	20 km	40 ± 20 million	65°31′N 95°56′E
Lonar	Buldhana, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	1.83 km	52,000 ± 6,000	19°58′N 76°31′E
Macha Macha crater Macha is a meteorite crater in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. The crater, measuring 300 metres in diameter, is the largest of a field of 5 craters with diameters ranging from 60 to 300 m. They may have been the result of iron meteorites, with an estimated age of impact less than 8000...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	0.3 km	< 7000	60°6′N 117°35′E
Popigai Popigai crater The Popigai crater in Siberia, Russia is tied with Manicouagan Crater as the fourth largest verified impact crater on Earth. A large bolide impact created the diameter crater 35.7 ± 0.2 million years ago during the late Eocene . The crater is 1½ hours from the outpost of Khatanga...	Siberia Siberia Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	100 km	35.7 ± 0.2 million	71°39′N 111°11′E
Ragozinka Ragozinka crater Ragozinka is a meteorite crater in the Urals in Russia.It is 9 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 46 ± 3 million years old . The crater is not exposed at the surface.- References :...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	9 km	46 ± 3 million	58°44′N 61°48′E
Shunak	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	2.8 km	45 ± 10 million	47°13′N 72°46′E
Sikhote-Alin Sikhote-Alin Meteorite Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in eastern Siberia. This fall is unique in the history of meteorites. Though large iron meteorite falls had been witnessed previously and fragments recovered, never before in recorded history had a fall of this...	Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok... , Russia	0.026 km (largest)		46°7′N 134°40′E
Sobolev Sobolev crater Sobolev is a meteorite crater in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia.It is 53 meters in diameter and is estimated to be less than 1000 years old. The crater is exposed at the surface.- References :...	Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	0.053 km	< 1000	46°18′N 137°52′E
Tabun-Khara-Obo Tabun-Khara-Obo crater Tabun-Khara-Obo is an impact crater in the Dornogovi Aimag the south-east of Mongolia.The crater, which is exposed at the surface, is 1.3 km in diameter...	Mongolia Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...	1.3 km	150 ± 20 million	44°8′N 109°39′E
Wabar Wabar craters The Wabar craters are impact craters brought to the attention of Western scholars by an explorer searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia.-1932 Philby:...	Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...	0.116 km		21°30′N 50°28′E
Zhamanshin Zhamanshin crater Zhamanshin is a meteorite crater in Kazakhstan.It is 14 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be 900,000 ± 100,000 years . The crater is exposed at the surface....	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...	14 km	900,000 ± 100,000	48°24′N 60°58′E

Unconfirmed impact craters

The following craters are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly-discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.

Name	Location	Diameter	Age	Coordinates
Shiva Shiva crater The Shiva crater is a sea floor structure located beneath the Indian Ocean, west of Mumbai, India. It was named by the paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee after Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and renewal....	Indian Ocean Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and... west of India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	600 x 400 km	65 million	18°40′N 70°14′E
Jabal Waqf es Swwan Jabal Waqf es Swwan crater The Jabal Waqf es Suwwan crater is an impact crater in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, near the Saudi border.The crater has a diameter of 5.5 km. It is estimated at 37-56 million years old. It is exposed at the surface....	Jordan Jordan Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...	5.5 km	Cenozoic?	31°3′N 36°48′E
Ramgarh Ramgarh crater Ramgarh crater is a 3 km wide potential meteor crater located in Rajasthan, India. If confirmed, this would be the second largest crater in India after Lonar crater in Maharashtra....	Rajasthan Rajasthan Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with... , India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...	3 km	Unknown	25°20′56"N 76°37′29"E
Cheko Lake Cheko Lake Cheko is a small freshwater lake in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, in what is now the Evenkiysky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai...	Siberia Siberia Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th... , Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...	~500 m	Possibly 100	60.964°N 101.86°E

External links

Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick
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Unconfirmed impact craters

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