View Shopping Cart Your Famous Chinese Account Shopping Help Famous Chinese Homepage China Chinese Chinese Culture Chinese Restaurant & Chinese Food Travel to China Chinese Economy & Chinese Trade Chinese Medicine & Chinese Herb Chinese Art
logo
Search
March 8, 2014
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
East Asia

Wikipedia

 
East Asia is a subregion of Asia. It covers about 6,640,000 km², or 15 percent of the continent.

The following countries are located in East Asia:

  • The People's Republic of China, except for the province of China|province of Qinghai and the autonomous region of China|autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Tibet Autonomous Region|Tibet, which may also be considered to be located in Central Asia

  • Japan

  • North Korea

  • South Korea

  • The Republic of China on Taiwan


The following countries or regions are sometimes considered part of East Asia. Political point of view is an important factor contributing to one's views on how the following countries or regions should be categorized:

  • The remaining parts of China: Xinjiang, Qinghai, Xizang|Tibet (either East Asia or Central Asia)

  • Mongolia (either East Asia or Central Asia)

  • Vietnam (either East Asia or Southeast Asia)

  • Russian Far East (either East Asia or North Asia)


More than 1,500 million people, or about 40 per cent of all Asians and a quarter of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. The region is one of the world's most crowded places. The population density of East Asia, 230 per km², is over five times the world average.

The history of East Asia, as well as parts of Southeast Asia, is heavily influenced by and intertwined with that of China. For example, all East Asian countries have used Chinese characters at some point in their history. The regions of China, Japan, and Korea, which have historically related writing systems, are sometimes collectively referred to as CJK (or CJKV with the inclusion of Vietnam).



  • Southeast Asia

  • South Asia (Indian Subcontinent)

  • Central Asia

  • Southwest Asia or West Asia (One definition of the Middle East is synonymous with Southwest Asia)

  • North Asia (Siberia)

  • Northern Eurasia (Extends into Europe)

  • Central Eurasia (Extends into Europe)




  • History of East Asia (a small index)

  • Eastasia — One of the three superpowers in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • East Asian Tigers -- a label pertinent to the recent economic history of the region.



Region
Category:Asia
Category:East Asia|

bg:Източна Азия
de:Ostasien
es:Extremo Oriente
eo:Orienta Azio
fr:Extr?me-Orient
ko:동아시아
ms:Asia Timur
minnan:Tang-a
nl:Oost-Azi?
id:Asia Timur
ja:東アジア
pl:Daleki Wsch?d
pt:Extremo Oriente
fi:It?-Aasia
th:เอเชียตะวันออก
zh-cn:东亚

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "East Asia".


Last Modified:   2005-04-13


Search
All informatin on the site is © FamousChinese.com 2002-2005. Last revised: January 2, 2004
Are you interested in our site or/and want to use our information? please read how to contact us and our copyrights.
To post your business in our web site? please click here. To send any comments to us, please use the Feedback.
To let us provide you with high quality information, you can help us by making a more or less donation: