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East Asia

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Also known as Eastern Asia, Far East Asia, East Asian Cultural Sphere, E Asia

eastern region of Asia

OverviewAI-generated

East Asia is a region with a population of 1,616,547,247 and an area of 11,839,074. There are 40,690,020 out-of-school children in the region. The subject is categorized under "East Asia" on Commons and is associated with the Stack Exchange tag for travel in East Asia.

Academic interest in the region is reflected in PubMed, which lists 668,481 entries for the query "East Asia." Additionally, the topic is referenced by 5,926 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

668,481 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
region
Part of
Asia
Has part
Taiwan
Country
Russia
Continent
Asia
Population
1616547247
Area
11839074
Body of water
Pacific Ocean
Shares border with
Central Asia
Image
Taipei Night Skyline from Hongludi 20240113.jpg
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Commons category
East Asia
topic's main category
Category:East Asia
number of out-of-school children
40690020
topic has template
Template:East Asian topics
history of topic
history of East Asia
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Encyclopedic overview

Tibetan name Tibetan ཨེ་ཤ་ཡ་ཤར་མ་ Korean name Hangul동아시아/동아세아/동아 Hanja東아시아/東亞細亞/東亞

Mongolian name Mongolian CyrillicЗүүн Ази ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨ ᠠᠽᠢ

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