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}}</ref> or [[cultural|pan-ethno-cultural]]<ref name=easia-columbia>[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm Columbia University – "East Asian cultural sphere"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227154316/http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm |date=2008-02-27 }} "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system."</ref> terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it includes Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea.<ref name="Kort 2005 7">{{Cite book |title=The Handbook Of East Asia |last= Kort |first=Michael |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |year=2005 |isbn=978-0761326724 |pages=7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www1.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/world/asia/east_asia/default.htm |title=Country Profiles: East Asia |website=Children and Armed Conflict Unit at the University of Essex}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=East Asia |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/12140 |publisher=Springer Netherlands}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/east-asia |title=East Asia |website=Dictionary.com}}</ref><ref name="encarta-east-asia"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://asiasociety.org/china-korea-and-japan-forgiveness-and-mourning |title=China, Korea and Japan: Forgiveness and Mourning |last=Seybolt |first= Peter J. |website=Center for Asian Studies |publisher=Center for Asian Studies}}</ref><ref name="Asian History Module Learning">{{Cite book |title=Asian History Module Learning |publisher=Rex Bookstore Inc. |year= 2002 |isbn=978-9712331244 |pages=186}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology |last=Salkind |first=Neil J. |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1412916882 |pages=56}}</ref>
}}</ref> or [[cultural|pan-ethno-cultural]]<ref name=easia-columbia>[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm Columbia University – "East Asian cultural sphere"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227154316/http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm |date=2008-02-27 }} "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system."</ref> terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it includes Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.<ref name="Kort 2005 7">{{Cite book |title=The Handbook Of East Asia |last= Kort |first=Michael |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |year=2005 |isbn=978-0761326724 |pages=7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www1.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/world/asia/east_asia/default.htm |title=Country Profiles: East Asia |website=Children and Armed Conflict Unit at the University of Essex}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title=East Asia |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/12140 |publisher=Springer Netherlands}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/east-asia |title=East Asia |website=Dictionary.com}}</ref><ref name="encarta-east-asia"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://asiasociety.org/china-korea-and-japan-forgiveness-and-mourning |title=China, Korea and Japan: Forgiveness and Mourning |last=Seybolt |first= Peter J. |website=Center for Asian Studies |publisher=Center for Asian Studies}}</ref><ref name="Asian History Module Learning">{{Cite book |title=Asian History Module Learning |publisher=Rex Bookstore Inc. |year= 2002 |isbn=978-9712331244 |pages=186}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology |last=Salkind |first=Neil J. |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1412916882 |pages=56}}</ref>


The region was the cradle of various ancient civilizations such as [[Ancient China]], [[ancient Japan]], [[ancient Korea]], and the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Towards a Sustainable Asia: The Cultural Perspectives |last=Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn= 978-3642166686 |pages=17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia: An Encyclopedia |last= Minahan |first= James B. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2014 |isbn=978-1610690171 |pages=xx-xxvi}}</ref> East Asia was one of the cradles of world civilization, with [[Cradle of civilization#China|China, an ancient East Asian civilization being one of the earliest cradles of civilization in human history]]. For thousands of years, China largely influenced East Asia as it was principally the leading civilization in the region exerting its enormous prestige and influence on its neighbors.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift |last= Zaharna |first= R.S. |last2=Arsenault |first2= Amelia |last3=Fisher |first3= Ali |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-0415636070 |edition=1st |publication-date=May 1, 2013 |pages=93}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century |last= Holcombe |first=Charles |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1107544895 |pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A Companion to Chinese History |last=Szonyi |first=Michael |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2017 |isbn=978-1118624609 |pages=90}}</ref> Historically, societies in East Asia have been part of the [[Chinese cultural sphere]], and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from [[Classical Chinese]] and [[Chinese character|Chinese script]]. Major [[East Asian religions|religions in East Asia]] include [[East Asian Buddhism|Buddhism]] (mostly [[Mahayana Buddhism|Mahayana]]<ref>include Tibetan Buddhism</ref>), which emphasize interpersonal harmony, social order, a holistic of life, as well as the importance of education, [[Confucianism]] and [[Neo-Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Ancestor veneration in China|Ancestral worship]], and [[Chinese folk religion]] in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, [[Shintoism]] in Japan, and [[Korean shamanism|Sindoism]] in Korea.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology |last=Salkind |first=Neil J. |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1412916882 |pages=56}}</ref> [[Shamanism]] is also prevalent among [[Mongolia]]ns and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia such as the Manchus and Ewenki.<ref>Chongho Kim, "Korean Shamanism", 2003 Ashgate Publishing</ref><ref>Andreas Anangguru Yewangoe, "Theologia crucis in Asia", 1987 Rodopi</ref> Islam is popular in [[Northwest China]] and [[Islam in Mongolia|Kazaks in Mongolia]]. The [[Chinese calendar]] preserves traditional East Asian culture, and serves as the root to which many other East Asian calendars are derived from.
The region was the cradle of various ancient civilizations such as [[Ancient China]], [[ancient Japan]], [[ancient Korea]], and the [[Mongol Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Towards a Sustainable Asia: The Cultural Perspectives |last=Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn= 978-3642166686 |pages=17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia: An Encyclopedia |last= Minahan |first= James B. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2014 |isbn=978-1610690171 |pages=xx-xxvi}}</ref> East Asia was one of the cradles of world civilization, with [[Cradle of civilization#China|China, an ancient East Asian civilization being one of the earliest cradles of civilization in human history]]. For thousands of years, China largely influenced East Asia as it was principally the leading civilization in the region exerting its enormous prestige and influence on its neighbors.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift |last= Zaharna |first= R.S. |last2=Arsenault |first2= Amelia |last3=Fisher |first3= Ali |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-0415636070 |edition=1st |publication-date=May 1, 2013 |pages=93}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century |last= Holcombe |first=Charles |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1107544895 |pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A Companion to Chinese History |last=Szonyi |first=Michael |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2017 |isbn=978-1118624609 |pages=90}}</ref> Historically, societies in East Asia have been part of the [[Chinese cultural sphere]], and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from [[Classical Chinese]] and [[Chinese character|Chinese script]]. Major [[East Asian religions|religions in East Asia]] include [[East Asian Buddhism|Buddhism]] (mostly [[Mahayana Buddhism|Mahayana]]<ref>include Tibetan Buddhism</ref>), [[Confucianism]] and [[Neo-Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Ancestor veneration in China|Ancestral worship]], and [[Chinese folk religion]] in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, [[Shintoism]] in Japan, and [[Korean shamanism|Sindoism]] in Korea.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology |last=Salkind |first=Neil J. |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2008 |isbn= 978-1412916882 |pages=56}}</ref> [[Shamanism]] is also prevalent among [[Mongolia]]ns and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia such as the Manchus and Ewenki.<ref>Chongho Kim, "Korean Shamanism", 2003 Ashgate Publishing</ref><ref>Andreas Anangguru Yewangoe, "Theologia crucis in Asia", 1987 Rodopi</ref> Islam is popular among the [[Ugyhurs]] in [[Northwest China]] and [[Islam in Mongolia|Kazaks in Mongolia]]. The [[Chinese calendar]] preserves traditional East Asian culture, and serves as the root to which many other East Asian calendars are derived from.


[[East Asian people|East Asians]] comprise around {{#expr:{{replace|{{UN_Population|Eastern Asia}}|,||}}/1e9 round 1}} billion people. About 38% of the population of Asia and 22%, or over one fifth, of world's population lives in East Asia. The region is to home to major world metropolises such as [[Beijing]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Seoul]], [[Shanghai]], [[Taipei]], and [[Tokyo]]. Although the coastal and riparian areas of the region form one of the world's most populated places, the population in [[Mongolia]] and [[Western China]], both landlocked areas, is very sparsely distributed, with Mongolia having the [[List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density|lowest population density of a sovereign state]]. The overall [[population density]] of the region is {{convert|133|PD/km2}}, about three times the world average of {{convert|45|/km2|abbr=on}}.
[[East Asian people|East Asians]] comprise around {{#expr:{{replace|{{UN_Population|Eastern Asia}}|,||}}/1e9 round 1}} billion people. About 38% of the population of Asia and 22%, or over one fifth, of world's population lives in East Asia. The region is to home to major world metropolises such as [[Beijing]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Seoul]], [[Shanghai]], [[Taipei]], and [[Tokyo]]. Although the coastal and riparian areas of the region form one of the world's most populated places, the population in [[Mongolia]] and [[Western China]], both landlocked areas, is very sparsely distributed, with Mongolia having the [[List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density|lowest population density of a sovereign state]]. The overall [[population density]] of the region is {{convert|133|PD/km2}}, about three times the world average of {{convert|45|/km2|abbr=on}}.
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In comparison with the profound influence of the Ancient Greeks and Romans on Europe and the Western World, China would already possess an advanced civilization nearly half a millennia before Japan and Korea.<ref name="Ellington 2009 21">{{Cite book |title=Japan (Nations in Focus) |last=Ellington |first=Lucien |year=2009 |pages=21}}</ref> As Chinese civilization existed for about 1500 years before other East Asian civilizations emerged into history, Imperial China would exert much of its cultural, economic, technological, and political muscle onto its neighbors.<ref>{{Cite book |title=East Asia: A New History |last=Walker |first=Hugh Dyson |publisher=AuthorHouse |year=2012 |pages=119}}</ref><ref name="Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld 2014 121">{{cite book | title=The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America | publisher=Penguin Press HC | author=Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld | year=2014 |page=121| isbn=978-1594205460}}</ref><ref name="Kang 2012 33–34"/> Succeeding Chinese Dynasties exerted enormous influence across East Asia culturally, economically, politically and militarily for over two millennia.<ref name="Kang 2012 33–34">{{Cite book |title=East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute |last=Kang |first=David C. |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0231153195 |pages=33–34}}</ref> Cultural and religious interaction between the Chinese and other regional East Asian dynasties and kingdoms occurred. China's impact and influence on Korea began with the Han dynasty's [[Han conquest of Gojoseon|northeastern expansion]] during the second century B.C. Jomon society in ancient Japan incorporated wet-rice cultivation and metallurgy through its contact with Korea. As full fledged medieval East Asian states were established, Korea by the fourth century AD and Japan by the seventh century AD, Korea and Japan actively began to incorporate Chinese influences such as [[Confucianism]], the use of [[Written_Chinese|Han Characters]], [[Chinese architecture|Chinese style architecture]], institutions, political philosophies into their culture and society through direct contacts with succeeding Chinese dynasties.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology |last=Fagan |first=Brian M. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0195076189 |pages=362}}</ref> For many centuries, most notably from the 7th to the 14th centuries, China stood as East Asia's most advanced civilization.<ref>{{Cite book |title=China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs |last= Brown |first=John |publisher=Createspace Independent |year=2006 |isbn=978-1419648939 |pages=33}}</ref> The Imperial Chinese tributary system shaped much of East Asia's history for over two millennia due to Imperial China's economic and cultural influence over the region, and thus played a huge role in the history of East Asia in particular.<ref name="Warren I. Cohen 2000">Warren I. Cohen. ''East Asia at the Center : Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World.'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|0231101082}}</ref><ref name="Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld 2014 121"/> The transmission of advanced Chinese cultural practices and ways of thinking greatly shaped the region up until the 19th century.<ref name="Ellington 2009 21"/>
In comparison with the profound influence of the Ancient Greeks and Romans on Europe and the Western World, China would already possess an advanced civilization nearly half a millennia before Japan and Korea.<ref name="Ellington 2009 21">{{Cite book |title=Japan (Nations in Focus) |last=Ellington |first=Lucien |year=2009 |pages=21}}</ref> As Chinese civilization existed for about 1500 years before other East Asian civilizations emerged into history, Imperial China would exert much of its cultural, economic, technological, and political muscle onto its neighbors.<ref>{{Cite book |title=East Asia: A New History |last=Walker |first=Hugh Dyson |publisher=AuthorHouse |year=2012 |pages=119}}</ref><ref name="Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld 2014 121">{{cite book | title=The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America | publisher=Penguin Press HC | author=Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld | year=2014 |page=121| isbn=978-1594205460}}</ref><ref name="Kang 2012 33–34"/> Succeeding Chinese Dynasties exerted enormous influence across East Asia culturally, economically, politically and militarily for over two millennia.<ref name="Kang 2012 33–34">{{Cite book |title=East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute |last=Kang |first=David C. |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0231153195 |pages=33–34}}</ref> Cultural and religious interaction between the Chinese and other regional East Asian dynasties and kingdoms occurred. China's impact and influence on Korea began with the Han dynasty's [[Han conquest of Gojoseon|northeastern expansion]] did in 108 BC when the Han Chinese conquered the northern part of the Korean peninsula and established a province called Lolang. Chinese influence would soon take root through the inclusion of the Chinese writing system, monetary system, rice culture, and Confucian political institutions.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West |last= Tsai |first= Henry |date=February 15, 2009 |publisher= Routledge |year=2009 |isbn= 978-0765623287 |pages=3}}</ref> Jomon society in ancient Japan incorporated wet-rice cultivation and metallurgy through its contact with Korea. As full fledged medieval East Asian states were established, Korea by the fourth century AD and Japan by the seventh century AD, Korea and Japan actively began to incorporate Chinese influences such as [[Confucianism]], the use of [[Written_Chinese|written Han characters]], [[Chinese architecture|Chinese style architecture]], state institutions, political philosophies, religion, urban planning, and various scientific and technological methods into their culture and society through direct contacts with succeeding Chinese dynasties.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Oxford Companion to Archaeology |last=Fagan |first=Brian M. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0195076189 |pages=362}}</ref> For many centuries, most notably from the 7th to the 14th centuries, China stood as East Asia's most advanced civilization.<ref>{{Cite book |title=China, Japan, Korea: Culture and Customs |last= Brown |first=John |publisher=Createspace Independent |year=2006 |isbn=978-1419648939 |pages=33}}</ref> The Imperial Chinese tributary system shaped much of East Asia's history for over two millennia due to Imperial China's economic and cultural influence over the region, and thus played a huge role in the history of East Asia in particular.<ref name="Warren I. Cohen 2000">Warren I. Cohen. ''East Asia at the Center : Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World.'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|0231101082}}</ref><ref name="Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld 2014 121"/> The transmission of advanced Chinese cultural practices and ways of thinking greatly shaped the region up until the 19th century.<ref name="Ellington 2009 21"/>


As East Asia's connections with Europe and the Western world strengthened during the late 19th century, China's power began to decline. U.S.Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] would [[Bakumatsu|open Japan to Western ways]], and the country would expand in earnest after the 1860s.<ref name="Tindall 2009 926">{{Cite book |title=America: A Narrative History |last= Tindall |first=George Brown |last2=Shi |first2= David E. |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |year=2009 |isbn=978-0393934083 |edition=1st |publication-date=November 16, 2009 |page=926}}</ref> Around the same time, Japan with its [[Meiji Restoration|rush to modernity]] transformed itself from an isolated feudal samurai state into East Asia's first industrialized nation.<ref name="Batty 2005">{{Cite video |title=Japan's War in Colour |date=January 17, 2005 |last=Batty |first=David |type=Documentary |publisher=TWI |year=2005}}</ref><ref name="Asian History Module Learning"/> The modern and powerful Japan would galvanize its position in the Orient as East Asia's greatest power with a global mission poised to advance to lead the entire world.<ref name="Batty 2005"/> With its newly found international status, Japan would begin to inextricably take a more active position in East Asia and leading role in world affairs at large. Flexing its nascent political and military might, Japan soundly defeated the stagnant [[Qing dynasty]] during the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] as well as vanquishing imperial rival [[Russo-Japanese War|Russia]] in 1905; the first major military victory in the modern era of an East Asian power over a European one.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nakasendoway.com/the-japanese-economy/ |title=The Japanese Economy |website=Walk Japan}}</ref><ref name="Tindall 2009 926"/> Its hegemony was the heart of an [[Japanese empire|empire]] that would include [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Taiwan]] and [[Japanese occupation of Korea|Korea]].<ref name="Batty 2005"/> During World War II, Japanese expansionism with its imperialist aspirations through the [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere]] would incorporate Korea, Taiwan, much of eastern China and Manchuria, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia under its control.<ref>{{Cite book |title=America: A Narrative History |last= Tindall |first=George Brown |last2=Shi |first2= David E. |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |year=2009 |isbn=978-0393934083 |edition=1st |publication-date=November 16, 2009 |page=1147}}</ref> After a century of exploitation by the European and Japanese colonialists, post-colonial East Asia saw the [[Defeat of Japan|defeat]] and [[Occupied Japan|occupation of Japan]] by the victorious Allies as well as the division of China and [[Division of Korea|Korea]] during the [[Cold War]]. The Korean peninsula became independent but then it was divided into [[Partition of Korea|two rival states]], while Taiwan became the main territory of de facto state [[Government of Republic of China|Republic of China]] after the latter lost Mainland China to the [[People's Republic of China]] in the [[Chinese Civil War]]. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the region would see the [[Japanese post-war economic miracle|post war economic miracle of Japan]], the economic rise of [[Miracle of the Han River|South Korea]] and [[Taiwan Miracle|Taiwan]], and the integration of [[Economy of Mainland China|Mainland China into the global economy]] through its entry in the [[China and the World Trade Organization|World Trade Organization]] while enhancing its emerging international status as a [[Potential superpowers#China|potential world power]].<ref name="Kort 2005 7"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present |last= Northrup |first= Cynthia Clark |last2=Bentley |first2= Jerry H. |last3= Eckes Jr. |first3= Alfred E. |publisher= Routledge |year=2004 |isbn= 978-0765680587 |pages=297}}</ref>
As East Asia's connections with Europe and the Western world strengthened during the late 19th century, China's power began to decline. U.S.Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] would [[Bakumatsu|open Japan to Western ways]], and the country would expand in earnest after the 1860s.<ref name="Tindall 2009 926">{{Cite book |title=America: A Narrative History |last= Tindall |first=George Brown |last2=Shi |first2= David E. |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |year=2009 |isbn=978-0393934083 |edition=1st |publication-date=November 16, 2009 |page=926}}</ref> Around the same time, Japan with its [[Meiji Restoration|rush to modernity]] transformed itself from an isolated feudal samurai state into East Asia's first industrialized nation.<ref name="Batty 2005">{{Cite video |title=Japan's War in Colour |date=January 17, 2005 |last=Batty |first=David |type=Documentary |publisher=TWI |year=2005}}</ref><ref name="Asian History Module Learning"/> The modern and powerful Japan would galvanize its position in the Orient as East Asia's greatest power with a global mission poised to advance to lead the entire world.<ref name="Batty 2005"/> With its newly found international status, Japan would begin to inextricably take a more active position in East Asia and leading role in world affairs at large. Flexing its nascent political and military might, Japan soundly defeated the stagnant [[Qing dynasty]] during the [[First Sino-Japanese War]] as well as vanquishing imperial rival [[Russo-Japanese War|Russia]] in 1905; the first major military victory in the modern era of an East Asian power over a European one.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nakasendoway.com/the-japanese-economy/ |title=The Japanese Economy |website=Walk Japan}}</ref><ref name="Tindall 2009 926"/> Its hegemony was the heart of an [[Japanese empire|empire]] that would include [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|Taiwan]] and [[Japanese occupation of Korea|Korea]].<ref name="Batty 2005"/> During World War II, Japanese expansionism with its imperialist aspirations through the [[Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere]] would incorporate Korea, Taiwan, much of eastern China and Manchuria, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia under its control.<ref>{{Cite book |title=America: A Narrative History |last= Tindall |first=George Brown |last2=Shi |first2= David E. |publisher= W. W. Norton & Company |year=2009 |isbn=978-0393934083 |edition=1st |publication-date=November 16, 2009 |page=1147}}</ref> After a century of exploitation by the European and Japanese colonialists, post-colonial East Asia saw the [[Defeat of Japan|defeat]] and [[Occupied Japan|occupation of Japan]] by the victorious Allies as well as the division of China and [[Division of Korea|Korea]] during the [[Cold War]]. The Korean peninsula became independent but then it was divided into [[Partition of Korea|two rival states]], while Taiwan became the main territory of de facto state [[Government of Republic of China|Republic of China]] after the latter lost Mainland China to the [[People's Republic of China]] in the [[Chinese Civil War]]. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the region would see the [[Japanese post-war economic miracle|post war economic miracle of Japan]], the economic rise of [[Miracle of the Han River|South Korea]] and [[Taiwan Miracle|Taiwan]], and the integration of [[Economy of Mainland China|Mainland China into the global economy]] through its entry in the [[China and the World Trade Organization|World Trade Organization]] while enhancing its emerging international status as a [[Potential superpowers#China|potential world power]].<ref name="Kort 2005 7"/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present |last= Northrup |first= Cynthia Clark |last2=Bentley |first2= Jerry H. |last3= Eckes Jr. |first3= Alfred E. |publisher= Routledge |year=2004 |isbn= 978-0765680587 |pages=297}}</ref>

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For other uses, see East Asia (disambiguation).
East Asia
Location of East Asia
States
Dependencies
Major cities
List
Area
[note 1]
 • Total11,839,074 km2 (4,571,092 sq mi)
Population
 (2021)[note 2]
 • Total1,663,696,923
 • Density140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone
Languages and language families
East Asia
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese东亚/东亚细亚
Traditional Chinese東亞/東亞細亞
Tibetan name
Tibetanཨེ་ཤ་ཡ་ཤར་མ་
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetĐông Á
Chữ Hán東亞
Korean name
Hangul동아시아/동아세아/동아
Hanja東아시아/東亞細亞/東亞
Mongolian name
Mongolian CyrillicЗүүн Ази
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠠᠽᠢ
Japanese name
Kanaひがしアジア/とうあ
Kyūjitai東亞細亞/東亞
Shinjitai東亜細亜（東アジア）/東亜
Uyghur name
Uyghurشەرقىي ئاسىي‎
Russian name
RussianВосточная Азия
RomanizationVostochnaja Azija

Northeast Asia or East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical[1] or pan-ethno-cultural[2] terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it includes Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.[3][4][5][6][1][7][8][9]

The region was the cradle of various ancient civilizations such as Ancient China, ancient Japan, ancient Korea, and the Mongol Empire.[10][11] East Asia was one of the cradles of world civilization, with China, an ancient East Asian civilization being one of the earliest cradles of civilization in human history. For thousands of years, China largely influenced East Asia as it was principally the leading civilization in the region exerting its enormous prestige and influence on its neighbors.[12][13][14] Historically, societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script. Major religions in East Asia include Buddhism (mostly Mahayana[15]), Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Ancestral worship, and Chinese folk religion in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Shintoism in Japan, and Sindoism in Korea.[16] Shamanism is also prevalent among Mongolians and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia such as the Manchus and Ewenki.[17][18] Islam is popular among the Ugyhurs in Northwest China and Kazaks in Mongolia. The Chinese calendar preserves traditional East Asian culture, and serves as the root to which many other East Asian calendars are derived from.

East Asians comprise around 1.7 billion people. About 38% of the population of Asia and 22%, or over one fifth, of world's population lives in East Asia. The region is to home to major world metropolises such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although the coastal and riparian areas of the region form one of the world's most populated places, the population in Mongolia and Western China, both landlocked areas, is very sparsely distributed, with Mongolia having the lowest population density of a sovereign state. The overall population density of the region is 133 inhabitants per square kilometre (340/sq mi), about three times the world average of 45/km2 (120/sq mi).

History

Main article: History of East Asia

In comparison with the profound influence of the Ancient Greeks and Romans on Europe and the Western World, China would already possess an advanced civilization nearly half a millennia before Japan and Korea.[19] As Chinese civilization existed for about 1500 years before other East Asian civilizations emerged into history, Imperial China would exert much of its cultural, economic, technological, and political muscle onto its neighbors.[20][21][22] Succeeding Chinese Dynasties exerted enormous influence across East Asia culturally, economically, politically and militarily for over two millennia.[22] Cultural and religious interaction between the Chinese and other regional East Asian dynasties and kingdoms occurred. China's impact and influence on Korea began with the Han dynasty's northeastern expansion did in 108 BC when the Han Chinese conquered the northern part of the Korean peninsula and established a province called Lolang. Chinese influence would soon take root through the inclusion of the Chinese writing system, monetary system, rice culture, and Confucian political institutions.[23] Jomon society in ancient Japan incorporated wet-rice cultivation and metallurgy through its contact with Korea. As full fledged medieval East Asian states were established, Korea by the fourth century AD and Japan by the seventh century AD, Korea and Japan actively began to incorporate Chinese influences such as Confucianism, the use of written Han characters, Chinese style architecture, state institutions, political philosophies, religion, urban planning, and various scientific and technological methods into their culture and society through direct contacts with succeeding Chinese dynasties.[24] For many centuries, most notably from the 7th to the 14th centuries, China stood as East Asia's most advanced civilization.[25] The Imperial Chinese tributary system shaped much of East Asia's history for over two millennia due to Imperial China's economic and cultural influence over the region, and thus played a huge role in the history of East Asia in particular.[26][21] The transmission of advanced Chinese cultural practices and ways of thinking greatly shaped the region up until the 19th century.[19]

As East Asia's connections with Europe and the Western world strengthened during the late 19th century, China's power began to decline. U.S.Commodore Matthew C. Perry would open Japan to Western ways, and the country would expand in earnest after the 1860s.[27] Around the same time, Japan with its rush to modernity transformed itself from an isolated feudal samurai state into East Asia's first industrialized nation.[28][8] The modern and powerful Japan would galvanize its position in the Orient as East Asia's greatest power with a global mission poised to advance to lead the entire world.[28] With its newly found international status, Japan would begin to inextricably take a more active position in East Asia and leading role in world affairs at large. Flexing its nascent political and military might, Japan soundly defeated the stagnant Qing dynasty during the First Sino-Japanese War as well as vanquishing imperial rival Russia in 1905; the first major military victory in the modern era of an East Asian power over a European one.[29][27] Its hegemony was the heart of an empire that would include Taiwan and Korea.[28] During World War II, Japanese expansionism with its imperialist aspirations through the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere would incorporate Korea, Taiwan, much of eastern China and Manchuria, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia under its control.[30] After a century of exploitation by the European and Japanese colonialists, post-colonial East Asia saw the defeat and occupation of Japan by the victorious Allies as well as the division of China and Korea during the Cold War. The Korean peninsula became independent but then it was divided into two rival states, while Taiwan became the main territory of de facto state Republic of China after the latter lost Mainland China to the People's Republic of China in the Chinese Civil War. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the region would see the post war economic miracle of Japan, the economic rise of South Korea and Taiwan, and the integration of Mainland China into the global economy through its entry in the World Trade Organization while enhancing its emerging international status as a potential world power.[3][31]

United Nations Statistics Division

In common usage, the term East Asia typically refers to a region including China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.[32][33][34]

Broader definitions, such as that used by the World Bank refer to the "three major Northeast Asian economies, i.e. China, Japan, and South Korea", as well as Mongolia, North Korea, the Russian Far East and Siberia.[35] The Council on Foreign Relations includes the Russia Far East, Mongolia, and Nepal.[36] The World Bank also acknowledges the roles of sub-national or de facto states, such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia defines the region as "China, Japan, the Koreas, Nepal, Mongolia, and eastern regions of the Russian Federation".[37]

The countries of East Asia also form the core of Northeast Asia, which itself is a broader region.
East Asia map of Köppen climate classification.
UNSD geoscheme for Asia based on statistic convenience rather than implying any assumption regarding political or other affiliation of countries or territories:[38]
  North Asia
  Central Asia
  Western Asia
  South Asia
  East Asia
  Southeast Asia

The UNSD definition of East Asia is based on statistical convenience,[38] but also other common definitions of East Asia contain the entirety of China (including Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau), Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.[1][39]

Culturally, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam are commonly seen as being encompassed by cultural East Asia (East Asian cultural sphere).[2][40][41][42]

Alternative definitions

There are mixed debates around the world whether these countries or regions should be considered in East Asia or not.

In business and economics, "East Asia" is sometimes used to refer to a wide geographical area covering ten Southeast Asian countries in ASEAN, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. However, in this context, the term "Far East" is used by the Europeans to cover ASEAN countries and the countries in East Asia. However, being a Eurocentric term, Far East describes the region's geographical position in relation to Europe rather than its location within Asia. Alternatively, the term "Asia Pacific Region" is often used in describing East Asia, Southeast Asia as well as Oceania.

Observers preferring a broader definition of "East Asia" often use the term Northeast Asia to refer to the greater China area, Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan, with Southeast Asia covering the ten ASEAN countries. This usage, which is seen in economic and diplomatic discussions, is at odds with the historical meanings of both "East Asia" and "Northeast Asia".[43][44][45] The Council on Foreign Relations defines Northeast Asia as Japan and Korea.[36]

Economy

Main article: Economy of East Asia
State/Territory GDP nominal
billions of USD (2017)[46] 		GDP nominal per capita
USD (2017)[46] 		GDP PPP
billions of USD (2017)[46] 		GDP PPP per capita
USD (2017)[46]
 China 11,937.562 8,583 23,122.027 16,624
 Hong Kong 334.104 44,999 453.019 61,015
 Macau 51.160 79,563 73.579 114,430
 Japan 4,884.489 38,550 5,405.072 42,659
 North Korea N/A N/A N/A N/A
 South Korea 1,529.743 29,730 2,026.651 39,387
 Mongolia 10.869 3,553 38.395 12,551
 Taiwan 571.453 24,227 1,175.308 49,827

Territorial and regional data

Etymology

Flag Common Name Official Name
Exonym Endonym Exonym Endonym
China China 中国 People’s Republic of China 中华人民共和国
Hong Kong Hong Kong 香港 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People’s Republic of China		 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區
Macau Macau 澳門 Macao Special Administrative Region
of the People’s Republic of China		 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區
Região Administrativa Especial de Macau
da República Popular da China
Japan Japan 日本 State of Japan 日本国
Mongolia Mongolia Монгол улс Mongolia Монгол Улс（ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠤᠯ
ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ）
North Korea North Korea 조선 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 조선민주주의인민공화국 (朝鮮民主主義人民共和國)
South Korea South Korea 한국 Republic of Korea 대한민국 (大韓民國)
Taiwan Taiwan[47] 臺灣 / 台灣 Republic of China 中華民國

Demographics

State/Territory Area km2 Population[48][49]
(2021) 		Population density
per km2 		HDI Capital
 China 9,640,011[50] 1,425,893,465 138 0.727 Beijing
 Hong Kong 1,104 7,494,578 6,390 0.912 Hong Kong
 Macau 30 686,607 18,662 0.892 Macau
 Japan 377,930 124,612,530 337 0.891 Tokyo
 North Korea 120,538 25,971,909 198 0.595 Pyongyang[51]
 South Korea 100,210 51,830,139 500 0.898 Seoul
 Mongolia 1,564,100 3,347,782 2 0.698 Ulaanbaatar
 Taiwan 36,188 23,859,912 639 0.884 Taipei[52]

Major ethnic groups

Main articles: East Asians and Ethnic groups of East Asia
Ethnicity Native name Population Language(s) Writing system(s) Major states/territories* Physical Appearance
Han/Chinese 漢人 or 汉人, 漢族 or 汉族 1,220,000,000[53] Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Hakka, Gan, Hsiang, etc. Simplified Han characters, Traditional Han characters China (Hong KongMacau) TaiwanJapanSouth Korea
Yamato/Japanese 日本族 (にほんぞく)
大和民族 (やまとみんぞく) 		125,117,000[54] Japanese Han characters (Kanji), Katakana, Hiragana Japan
Joseon/Korean 한민족 (韓民族)
조선족 (朝鮮族) 		79,432,225[55] Korean Hangul, Han characters (Hanja) South KoreaNorth KoreaChinaJapan
Mongols Монголчууд/ᠮᠣᠩᠭ᠋ᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ
Монгол/ᠮᠣᠩᠭ᠋ᠣᠯ 		8,942,528 Mongolian Mongol script, Cyrillic script ChinaMongolia
Zhuang 壮族/Bouxcuengh 18,000,000[56] Zhuang, Cantonese, Southwestern Mandarin, etc. Simplified Han characters, Latin script China
Manchus 满族/ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ 10,422,873[57] Northeastern Mandarin, Manchurian (endangered), etc. Simplified Han characters, Mongol script China
Hui 回族/回回 10,586,087[58] Northwestern Mandarin, other Chinese Dialects, Huihui language, etc. Simplified Han characters China
Uyghurs ئۇيغۇر 10,069,346[59] Uyghur Arabic script，Latin script(auxiliary)[60] China[61]
Hmong/Miao Ghaob Xongb/Hmub/Mongb 9,426,007[62] Hmong, Southwestern Mandarin Latin script, Simplified Han characters China
Tibetans བོད་པ་ 6,500,000 Tibetan, Rgyal Rong, Rgu, etc. Tibetan script China
Bai 白族 1,858,063 Bai, Southwestern Mandarin Latin script, Simplified Han characters China
Yi ꆈꌠ/彝族 8,714,393 Various Loloish, Southwestern Mandarin Yi script, Simplified Han characters China
Tujia 土家族 8,353,912 Northern Tujia, Southern Tujia Simplified Han characters China
Kam Gaeml 2,879,974 Gaeml Simplified Han characters, Latin script China
Tu 土族/Monguor 289,565 Tu, Northwestern Mandarin Simplified Han characters China
Daur 达斡尔族/ᠳᠠᠭᠤᠷ 131,992 Daur, Northeastern Mandarin Mongol script, Simplified Han characters ChinaMongolia
Russians русские 15,393 Russian, Northwestern Mandarin Cyrillic script, Simplified Han characters China
Mountain Tajiks تاجيک 3,556 Sarikoli, Wakhi Arabic script China
Taiwanese Aborigines Pangcah, etc. 533,600 Austronesian languages (Amis, Yami), etc. Latin script, Traditional Han characters Taiwan

*Note: The order of states/territories follows the population ranking of each ethnicity, within East Asia only.

Culture

Main article: East Asian cultural sphere

Overview

The culture of East Asia has largely been influenced by China, as it was the civilization that had the most dominant influence in the region throughout the ages that ultimately laid the foundation for East Asian civilization.[63] The vast knowledge and ingenuity of Chinese civilization and the classics of Chinese literature and culture were seen as the foundations for a civilized life in East Asia. China served as a vehicle through which the adoption of Confucian ethical philosophy, Chinese calendar system, political and legal systems, architectural style, diet, terminology, institutions, religious beliefs, imperial examinations that emphasized a knowledge of Chinese classics, political philosophy and culture, as well as historically sharing a common writing system reflected in the histories of Japan and Korea.[64][22][65][66][67][68][69] The Imperial Chinese tributary system was the bedrock of network of trade and foreign relations between China and its East Asian tributaries, which helped to shape much of East Asian affairs during the ancient and medieval eras. Through the tributary system, the various dynasties of Imperial China facilitated frequent economic and cultural exchange that influenced the cultures of Japan and Korea and drew them into a Chinese international order.[70][71] The Imperial Chinese tributary system shaped much of East Asia's foreign policy and trade for over 2000 years due to Imperial China's economic and cultural dominance over the region, and thus played a huge role in the history of East Asia in particular.[26][71] The relationship between China and its cultural influence on East Asia has been compared to the historical influence of Greco-Roman civilization on Europe and the Western World.[68][66][71][64]

Religions

Main article: East Asian religions
Religion Native name Denomination Major book Type Est. Followers Ethnic groups States/territories
Chinese religion none, various classifications including 民間信仰, 神教/神道, etc. Taoism, Confucianism, folk salvationist sects, Wuism, Nuo Chinese classics, Huangdi Sijing, precious scrolls, etc. Pantheism/polytheism ~900,000,000[72][73] Han, Hmong, Qiang, Tujia (worship of the same ancestor-gods) China (Hong Kong Macau) Taiwan
Taoism 道教 Zhengyi, Quanzhen Tao Te Ching Pantheism/polytheism ~20,000,000[73] Han, Zhuang, Hmong, Yao, Qiang, Tujia China (Hong Kong Macau) Taiwan
Confucianism 儒教 Cheng-Zhu, Lu-Wang Four Books and Five Classics Immanent transcendence/pantheism N/A Han, Joseon, Yamato China (Hong Kong Macau) Japan South Korea Taiwan
East Asian Buddhism 漢傳佛教 or 汉传佛教 Mahayana Diamond Sutra Non-God ~300,000,000 Han, Joseon, Yamato China (Hong Kong Macau) Japan South Korea Taiwan
Tibetan Buddhism བོད་བརྒྱུད་ནང་བསྟན། Mahayana Anuttarayoga Tantra Non-God ~10,000,000 Tibetans, Manchus, Mongols China Mongolia
Shamanism[74] and Bon, etc. Бөө мөргөл , བོན N/A N/A Polytheism/pantheism N/A Tibetans, Manchus, Mongols, Oroqen China Mongolia
Shintoism 神道 Shinto sects Kojiki, Nihon Shoki Polytheism/pantheism N/A Yamato Japan
Sindo/Muism 신도 or 무교 Sindo sects N/A Polytheism/pantheism N/A Joseon South Korea

Festivals

Festival Native Name Other name Calendar Date Gregorian date Activity Religious practices Food Major ethnicities Major states/territories
Chinese New Year 春節 or 春节 Spring Festival Chinese Month 1 Day 1 21 Jan–20 Feb Family Reunion, Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping, Fireworks Worship the King of Gods Jiaozi Han, Joseon, Manchus etc. China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Mongolia Taiwan
New Year 元旦 Yuan Dan Gregorian 1 Jan 1 Jan Fireworks N/A N/A N/A China(Hong KongMacau) Japan North Korea South Korea Mongolia Taiwan
Losar or Tsagaan Sar ལོ་གསར་ or Цагаан сар White Moon Tibetan, Mongolian Month 1 Day 1 25 Jan–2 Mar Family Reunion, Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping, Fireworks N/A Chhaang or Buuz Tibetans, Mongols, Tu etc. ChinaMongolia
Lantern Festival 元宵節 or 元宵节 Upper Yuan Festival (上元节) Chinese Month 1 Day 15 4 Feb–6 Mar Lanterns Expo, Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping Birthdate of the God of Sky-officer Yuanxiao Han, Joseon, Yamato China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan*
Qingming Festival 清明節 or 清明节 Tomb Sweeping Day Solar 15th day since March equinox 4 Apr–6 April Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping Burning Hell money Cold Food Han, Joseon, Mongols China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Taiwan
Dragon Boat Festival 端午節 or 端午节 Duanwu Festival Chinese Month 5 Day 5 Driving poisons & plague away, Dragon Boat Race, Wearing colored lines, Hanging felon herb on the front door. Worship various Gods Zongzi Han, Joseon, Yamato China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan*
Ghost Festival 中元節 or 中元节 Mid Yuan Festival Chinese Month 7 Day 15 Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping Birthdate of the God of Earth-officer Han, Joseon, Yamato China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan*
Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節 or 中秋节 中秋祭 Chinese Month 8 Day 15 Family Reunion, Enjoying Moon view Worship the Moon Goddess Mooncake Han, Joseon, Yamato China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan*
Double Ninth Festival 重陽節 or 重阳节 Double Positive Festival Chinese Month 9 Day 09 Climbing Mountain, Taking care of elderly, Wearing Cornus. Worship various Gods Han, Joseon, Yamato China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Japan Taiwan*
Lower Yuan Festival 下元節 or 下元节 N/A Chinese Month 10 Day 15 Ancestors Worship, Tomb Sweeping Birthdate of the God of Water-officer Ciba Han, Joseon China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea South Korea Taiwan
Small New Year 小年 Jizao (祭灶) Chinese Month 12 Day 23 Cleaning Houses Worship the God of Hearth tanggua Han, Mongols China(Hong KongMacau) Mongolia Taiwan
International Labor Day N/A N/A Gregorian 1 May 1 May N/A N/A N/A N/A China(Hong KongMacau) Mongolia Taiwan
International Women's Day N/A N/A Gregorian 8 Mar 8 Mar Taking care of women N/A N/A N/A China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea Mongolia Taiwan

*Japan switched the date to the Gregorian calendar after the Meiji Restoration.

*Not always on that Gregorian date, sometimes April 4.

Collaboration

East Asian Youth Games

Formerly the East Asian Games is a multi-sport event organised by the East Asian Games Association (EAGA) and held every four years since 2019 among athletes from East Asian countries and territories of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), as well as the Pacific island of Guam, which is a member of the Oceania National Olympic Committees.

The East Asian Games is 1 of 5 Regional Games of the OCA. The others are the East Asian Games, the Central Asian Games, the South Asian Games, the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), and the West Asian Games. All nigh East Asian States/Territories join this Game.

Free trade agreements

Name of agreement Parties Leaders at the time Negotiation begins Signing date Starting time Current status
China–South Korea FTA China South Korea Xi Jinping, Park Geun-hye May, 2012 Jun 01, 2015 Dec 30, 2015 Enforced
China–Japan–South Korea FTA China Japan South Korea Xi Jinping, Shinzō Abe, Park Geun-hye Mar 26, 2013 N/A N/A 10 round negotiation
Japan-Mongolia EPA Japan Mongolia Shinzō Abe, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj - Feb 10, 2015 - Enforced
China-Mongolia FTA China Mongolia Xi Jinping, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj N/A N/A N/A Officially proposed
Mainland-HK CEPA China Hong Kong Jiang Zemin, Tung Chee-hwa - Jun 29, 2003 - Enforced
Mainland-Macau CEPA China Macau Jiang Zemin, Edmund Ho Hau-wah - Oct 18, 2003 - Enforced
Hong Kong-Macau CEPA Hong Kong Macau Carrie Lam, Fernando Chui Oct 09, 2015 N/A N/A Negotiating
ECFA China Taiwan Hu Jintao, Ma Ying-jeou Jan 26, 2010 Jun 29, 2010 Aug 17, 2010 Enforced
CSSTA (Based on ECFA) China Taiwan Xi Jinping, Ma Ying-jeou Mar, 2011 Jun 21, 2013 N/A Abolished
CSGTA (Based on ECFA) China Taiwan Hu Jintao, Ma Ying-jeou Feb 22, 2011 N/A N/A Suspended

Military alliances

Name Abbr. Parties within the region
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation SCO China(Hong KongMacau)
General Security of Military Information Agreement GSOMIA JapanSouth Korea
Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty - China(Hong KongMacau) North Korea
Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan - United States(GuamNorthern Mariana Islands) Japan
Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea - United States(GuamNorthern Mariana Islands) South Korea
Taiwan Relations Act (Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty before 1980) TRA (SAMDT) United States(GuamNorthern Mariana Islands) Taiwan
Major non-NATO ally (Global Partners of NATO) - NATOUnited States(GuamNorthern Mariana Islands)AustraliaJapanSouth KoreaTaiwan[75]

Major cities and towns

Main article: Cities of East Asia
  • Beijing is the capital of China and the largest metropolis in northern China.
    Beijing is the capital of China and the largest metropolis in northern China.
  • Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the largest in the world, and is a global financial centre and transport hub with the world's busiest container port.
    Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the largest in the world, and is a global financial centre and transport hub with the world's busiest container port.
  • Guangzhou is one of the most important cities in southern China. It has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub today.
    Guangzhou is one of the most important cities in southern China. It has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub today.
  • Xi'an or Chang'an is the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, having held the position under several of the most important dynasties. It has a significant cultural influence in East Asia.
    Xi'an or Chang'an is the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, having held the position under several of the most important dynasties. It has a significant cultural influence in East Asia.
  • Hong Kong is one of the world's leading global financial centres and is known as a cosmopolitan metropolis.
    Hong Kong is one of the world's leading global financial centres and is known as a cosmopolitan metropolis.
  • Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
    Taipei is the capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  • Tokyo is the capital of Japan and one of the largest cities in the world, both in metropolitan population and economy.
    Tokyo is the capital of Japan and one of the largest cities in the world, both in metropolitan population and economy.
  • Osaka is the second largest metropolitan area in Japan
    Osaka is the second largest metropolitan area in Japan
  • Kyoto was the Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years.
    Kyoto was the Imperial capital of Japan for more than one thousand years.
  • Seoul is the capital of South Korea, one of the largest cities in the world and a leading global technology hub.
    Seoul is the capital of South Korea, one of the largest cities in the world and a leading global technology hub.
  • Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, and is a significant metropolis on the Korean Peninsula.
    Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, and is a significant metropolis on the Korean Peninsula.
  • Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia with a population of 1 million as of 2008.
    Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia with a population of 1 million as of 2008.
Pass of the ISS over Mongolia, looking out west towards the Pacific Ocean, China, and Japan. As the video progresses, you can see major cities along the coast and the Japanese islands on the Philippine Sea. The island of Guam can be seen further down the pass into the Philippine Sea, and the pass ends just to the east of New Zealand. A lightning storm can be seen as light pulses near the end of the video.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The area figure is based on the combined areas of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Mongolia, North Korea & South Korea, Chinese Taiwan and Japan as listed at List of countries and outlying territories by total area.
  2. ^ The population figure is the combined populations of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan and Republic of China (Taiwan) as listed at the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects

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