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5 days ago · East Asia, region of Asia consisting of Japan, North and South Korea, China, Mongolia, and Taiwan. An old term for the region is the Far East, a name that arose among Europeans, who considered this region in the continent to their east to be “far” from Europe in terms of traveling time.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Geography of East Asia. Being the second of the three different subregions of Asia, East Asia is very populated and has lots of different aspects of geography.
East Asia is a region of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macau, two coastal cities located in the south of China, are autonomous regions under Chinese sovereignty.
- Dōngyǎ/Dōngyà or Dōng Yǎxìyǎ/Dōng Yàxìyà
- 11,840,000 km² (4,570,000 sq mi) (3rd)
- dung1 aa3
- East Asian
Basic Points of Interest on the Geography of East Asia. The climate of East Asia is both similar to and different from that of Europe and the United States. It is similar in that it is a temperate climate, with colder winters and warm summers.
China is the largest country in East Asia in both physical size and population. Other countries of East Asia include Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are associated with mainland China. Updated from map courtesy of University of Texas Libraries.
East Asia [encompasses] ... the modern countries that can trace some degree of evolutionary continuity back to the earliest Neolithic and Bronze Age developments in what is now China ... [Genesis of EA, p. 3] The four countries of East Asia today: China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam
Population Geography. East Asia is one of the world’s most densely populated regions. China is the world’s most populous country, with more than 1.4 billion people. Japan, the world’s eleventh most populated country, is home to 127 million people.
