East Asia

Not to be confused with Southeast Asia or South Asia.

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.

Geographic East Asia.

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).

Countries and territories	Area km²	Population	Population density per km²	HDI (2010)	Capital
China	9,596,961	1,339,724,852	138	0.663	Beijing
Hong Kong	1,104	7,061,200	6,390	0.862	Hong Kong
Japan	377,930	127,950,000	337	0.884	Tokyo
Macau	30	556,800	18,662	No Data	Macau
Mongolia	1,564,100	2,809,600	2	0.622	Ulaanbaatar
North Korea	120,538	24,346,000	198	No Data	Pyongyang
South Korea	99,828	48,988,833	500	0.877	Seoul
Republic of China (Taiwan)	36,188	23,174,528	639	0.868	Taipei

Related pages

• China
• Japan
• South Korea
• North Korea
• Mongolia
• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Macau
• Far East (Usually referring to the 6 countries of East Asia and 11 countries of Southeast Asia collectively)