East Asia Map
East Asia Map.
East Asia is one of the twenty-two subregions in which the UN divides the world. It consists of five countriesː China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan, plus two dependencies, Hong Kong and Macao, and an unrecognized country, the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan. It owns 26 of the 100 largest cities in the world: Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xiamen, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shantou, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chongqing, Nanjing, Xi'an, Wenzhou, Qingdao, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Dalian and Changsha, in China; Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, in Japan; Seoul in South Korea, Taipei (Taiwan) and Hong Kong.
It borders on North Asia, on the east with the Yellow Sea and Pacific Ocean, on the southeast with the South China Sea, on the south with South East Asia, on the southwest with South Asia and on the west with Central Asia. With 1 620 807 000 inhabitants In 2013 it is the second most populated region of the continent -behind South Asia- and with 12 million km², the second most extensive, behind North Asia. Map 2004.
East Asia is one of the twenty-two subregions in which the UN divides the world. It consists of five countriesː China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan, plus two dependencies, Hong Kong and Macao, and an unrecognized country, the Republic of China, better known as Taiwan. It owns 26 of the 100 largest cities in the world: Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Xiamen, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shantou, Wuhan, Shenyang, Chongqing, Nanjing, Xi'an, Wenzhou, Qingdao, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Hefei, Dalian and Changsha, in China; Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, in Japan; Seoul in South Korea, Taipei (Taiwan) and Hong Kong.
It borders on North Asia, on the east with the Yellow Sea and Pacific Ocean, on the southeast with the South China Sea, on the south with South East Asia, on the southwest with South Asia and on the west with Central Asia. With 1 620 807 000 inhabitants In 2013 it is the second most populated region of the continent -behind South Asia- and with 12 million km², the second most extensive, behind North Asia. Map 2004.
