Editing Swamp (section)

===Asia===
[[File:Marsh Arabs in a mashoof.jpg|thumb|Marsh Arabs poling a ''mashoof'']]
The [[Mesopotamian Marshes]]<ref name="Daoudy1963">{{cite book |last=Daoudy |first=Marwa |title=Le Partage des Eaux entre la Syrie, l'Irak et la Turquie |language=fr |date=2005 |publisher=CNRS |pages=1–269 |isbn=2-271-06290-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6iGAAAAIAAJ |access-date=2016-04-06 |archive-date=2023-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405065812/https://books.google.com/books?id=V6iGAAAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> is a large swamp and river system in southern [[Iraq]], traditionally inhabited in part by the [[Marsh Arabs]].

In Asia, tropical [[peat]] swamps are located in mainland East Asia and Southeast Asia. In Southeast Asia, peatlands are mainly found in low altitude coastal and sub-coastal areas and extend inland for distance more than {{convert|100|km|mi|abbr=on}} along river valleys and across watersheds. They are mostly to be found on the coasts of East Sumatra, Kalimantan (Central, East, South and West Kalimantan provinces), West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, Peninsular Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak, Southeast Thailand, and the Philippines (Riley ''et al.'',1996). Indonesia has the largest area of tropical peatland. Of the total {{convert|440000|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}} tropical peat swamp, about {{convert|210000|sqkm|sqmi|abbr=on}} are located in Indonesia (Page, 2001; Wahyunto, 2006).

The [[Vasyugan Swamp]] is a large swamp in the western [[Siberia]] area of the [[Russian Federation]]. This is one of the largest swamps in the world, covering an area larger than [[Switzerland]].