"East Asia or Eastern Asia (the latter form preferred solely by the United Nations) is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ...
The UN subregion of Eastern Asia and other common definitions of East Asia contain the entirety of the People's Republic of China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan.
Culturally, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam are commonly seen as being encompassed by cultural East Asia." [East Asia. Wikipedia]
This East Asia map was redesigned from Wikimedia Commons file: Map of East Asia.png. [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_East_Asia.png]
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The example "East Asia - Political map" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Continent Maps solution from the Maps area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.