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This is a list of events that took place in Asia in 2023.

• 13 January - 29 January - 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup

• 13 February - 2023 Bangladeshi presidential election

• 2 March - 2023 Vietnamese presidential election
• 9 March - 2023 Nepalese presidential election
• 19 March - 2023 Kazakh legislative election
• 26 March - 2023 Turkmen parliamentary election

• 5 May – A penumbral lunar eclipse was visible in the evening and the following morning in Africa, Asia and Australia and was the 24th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 141.^[1]
• 14 May – 2023 Thai general election
• 14 May – 2023 Turkish parliamentary election
• 21 May – 2023 East Timorese parliamentary election

• 6 June – 2023 Kuwaiti general election
• 16 June – 16 July 16 – 2023 AFC Asian Cup.

• 6 July – The 2023 Hong Kong electoral changes confirmed and approved by Legislative Council. Direct elected seats of district councilors decreased from 452 out of 479 (94%) to 88 out of 470 (19%), and will establish the District Council Eligibility Review Committee for review the eligibility of every District Council Candidates. ^[2]
• 9 July – 2023 Uzbek presidential election
• 23 July – 2023 Cambodian general election

• 1 September – 2023 Singaporean presidential election
• 9 September – 2023 Maldivian presidential election
• 10 September – 2023 Russian elections
• 19 September – Azerbaijan launched a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh.^[3]
• September 20 – Armenian separatist forces in Nagorno-Karabakh surrender and agree to a Russian proposal for a ceasefire with Azerbaijan effective from 1 pm on Wednesday.^[4]
• 23 September – 8 October – 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
• 24 September – 4 October – over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.^[5][6]
• 28 September – Samvel Shahramanyan, president of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, signs a decree to dissolve all state institutions of Artsakh beginning at the start of 2024.^[7]

• 5 October – 26 November – 2023 Cricket World Cup in India.
• 7 October – 2023 Emirati parliamentary election
• 28 October – A partial lunar eclipse was visible in the evening and the next morning over Europe and most of Africa and Asia and was the 11th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 146.^[8]
• 29 October – 2023 Omani general election

• 2024 in Asian music
• List of state leaders in Asia in 2023