East 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.

These are the 6 countries and 2 territories in East Asia:

Population

About 1,575,784,500 people live in East Asia (as of 2010^[update]).^[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

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)