Bitcoin in Asia: 34 country guides

Bitcoin is legal in 20 of the 34 countries in Asia we cover. It is restricted in Myanmar and Uzbekistan. It is banned in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China and Nepal. The legal position is unclear in 8 countries. The guides for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and Nepal are written legality first and recommend no exchange. Each country guide carries the sourced legal note behind its status.

Coinmama is ranked in 24 of the 34 country guides in Asia, and ranks first in 1. Binance follows in 23. Each guide ranks its own roster on published fees, security record and local payment support, so the same exchange can sit first in one country and fourth in the next.

Credit or debit card is a listed payment rail in 28 of the 34 countries, P2P trade in 21, Local bank transfer in 15. Counted from each guide's own payment vocabulary, under the local name the guide uses; the rail's own page lists every country that carries it.

Indonesia with 6, Georgia with 5 and India with 5 ranked exchanges. A count is how many platforms the guide ranks after checking that each one serves residents and takes a local payment rail, not how many claim the country on their own site.

Into 5 subregions, following the subregion field on each country record: Caucasus (3), Central Asia (5), East Asia (7), South Asia (8), Southeast Asia (11). Each has its own hub with the same tables at a finer grain.