East Asia or Eastern Asia is part of the continent Asia. East Asia covers about 6,640,000 km2 (2,560,000 sq mi), or 15% of the continent.
These are the 6 countries and 2 territories in East Asia:
- People's Republic of China
- Hong Kong (territory)
- Japan
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Macao (territory)
- Mongolia
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
Population
About 1,575,784,500 people live in East Asia (as of 2010).[source?] most of them live in China.
| Countries and territories | Area km² | Population | Population density per km² |
HDI (2010) | Capital | Official & national language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 China |
9,596,961 | 1,339,724,852 | 138 | 0.663 | Beijing | Mandarin Chinese |
 Hong Kong |
1,104 | 7,061,200 | 6,390 | 0.862 | Hong Kong | Chinese, British English |
 Japan |
377,930 | 127,950,000 | 337 | 0.884 | Tokyo | Japanese |
 Macau |
30 | 556,800 | 18,662 | No Data | Macau | Hokkien |
 Mongolia |
1,564,100 | 2,809,600 | 2 | 0.622 | Ulaanbaatar | Mongol |
 North Korea |
120,538 | 24,346,000 | 198 | No Data | Pyongyang | Korean |
 South Korea |
99,828 | 48,988,833 | 500 | 0.877 | Seoul | Korean |
 Republic of China (Taiwan) |
36,188 | 23,174,528 | 639 | 0.868 | Taipei | Taiwanese Hokkien, Taiwanese Mandarin |
Related pages
- China (People's Republic of China)
- Japan
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Mongolia
- Taiwan (Republic of China)
- Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of China)
- Macau (Special Administrative Region of China)
- Manchuria (Autonomous part of China but culturally outside China proper)
- Tibet (Autonomous part of China but culturally outside China proper)
- Inner Mongolia (Autonomous part of China but culturally outside China proper)
- Xinjiang (Autonomous part of China but culturally outside China proper)
- Far East (Usually referring to the 6 countries of East Asia and 11 countries of Southeast Asia collectively)