Which space region is characterized by a high number of asteroids?

The Asteroid Belt is the region in space that contains a significant concentration of asteroids. Located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, this belt is home to millions of individual rocky bodies ranging in size from small boulders to objects that are hundreds of kilometers in diameter. The gravitational influence of nearby Jupiter prevents these materials from coalescing into a larger planetary body, resulting in the formation of a distinct belt of asteroids.

While the inner solar system also contains some asteroids, the majority of them are found in the Asteroid Belt. The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud do contain some icy bodies and potential for other small celestial objects, but their characteristics differ significantly from those of the dense collection found in the Asteroid Belt. The Kuiper Belt, for instance, is more associated with icy bodies and extends beyond the orbit of Neptune, while the Oort Cloud is a distant spherical shell surrounding the solar system, primarily consisting of comets rather than asteroids.