This is a list of shipwrecks located in or around the continent of

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

Arabia

Bahrain

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

United Arab Emirates

Yemen

Bangladesh

Brunei

Myanmar (Burma)

China

East Timor

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

India

Indonesia

Japan

Lebanon

Malaysia

Nine historic trade ships carrying ceramics dating back to the 10th century until the 19th century were excavated under Swedish engineer Sten Sjöstrand in the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phi ...

. * ''Royal Nanhai'' (circa 1460), found in 1995 * ''Nanyang'' (circa 1380), found in 1995 * ''Xuande'' (circa 1540), found in 1995 * ''Longquan'' (circa 1400), found in 1996 * ''Turiang'' (circa 1370), found in 1996 * ''Singtai'' (circa 1550), found in 1998 * ''Desaru'' (circa 1830), found in 2001 * ''Tanjong Simpang'' (AD 960- 1127), found in 2001 * ''Wanli'' (early 17th century), found in 2003

Philippines

Russia

Singapore

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey

Vietnam

References

External links

WRECKSITE
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The Southeast Asian Ceramic Society's helpful list of shipwrecks carrying Southeast Asian or Chinese ceramics with summaries of the wrecks and their contents {{Shipwrecks by location Lists of shipwrecks by location, Asia

Shipwrecks A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. Angela Croome reported in January 1999 that there were approximately ...