This first version of this immage is very large. It takes 934MB of memory (1252MB on a 64-bit system) just to open it in inkscape.

DescriptionAsia98.svg	Map of Asia as of 1998, with first level administrative units. See also Image:World98.svg
Date	20 October 2007
Source	world98.shp from the US CDC [1]
Author	Translated to SVG by User:Brianski
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid.  This map was created with an unknown SVG tool.

This file is a work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the file is in the public domain.

• Fix regions in N.E. Russia that cross the date line.
• Fix blips, change background color so these blips are more obvious and thus easier to fix.
• Also make proper hierarchical groups.

perl xml2svg.pl --proj=cylindrical_equidistant:0,0.793353340291235 --xa -x8000 --incl=./import/continents/asia.txt world98
mv -f world98.svg asia98.svg