eastern region of Asia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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These are the 6 countries and 2 territories in East Asia:
About 1,575,784,500 people live in East Asia (as of 2010[update]).[source?]
| 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 |
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