East Asia

East Asia was the cradle of ancient civilizations such as Imperial China, ancient Korea, ancient Japan, and the Mongol Empire, and is today home to 1.6 billion people.
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East Asia

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Latitude of center
37.8° or 37° 48′ north
Longitude of center
113.2° or 113° 12′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q27231

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“East Asia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Asia Timu”
  • Afrikaans: “Oos-Asië”
  • Albanian: “Azia Lindore”
  • Amharic: “ምስራቅ እስያ”
  • Arabic: “شرق آسيا”
  • Armenian: “Արևելյան Ասիա”
  • Arpitan: “Asia du Levant”
  • Assamese: “পূব এছিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Asia Oriental”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şərqi Asiya”
  • Balinese: “Asia Kangin”
  • Banjar: “Asia Timur”
  • Bashkir: “Көнсығыш Азия”
  • Basque: “Ekialdeko Asia”
  • Batak Toba: “Asia Purba”
  • Bavarian: “Ostasien”
  • Belarusian: “Усходняя Азія”
  • Bengali: “পূর্ব এশিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Asia Wètan”
  • Bhojpuri: “पूर्ब एशिया”
  • Bosnian: “Istočna Azija”
  • Breton: “Azia ar Reter”
  • Bulgarian: “Източна Азия”
  • Burmese: “အရှေ့အာရှ”
  • Catalan: “Àsia oriental”
  • Cebuano: “Sidlakang Asya”
  • Central Bikol: “Subangan na Asya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆژھەڵاتی ئاسیا”
  • Central Okinawan: “あがりアジア”
  • Central Okinawan: “東アジア”
  • Chechen: “Малхбален Ази”
  • Chinese: “东亚”
  • Chinese: “東亞”
  • Chuvash: “Тухӑҫ Ази”
  • Corsican: “Asia orientale”
  • Corsican: “Asia urientale”
  • Croatian: “Istočna Azija”
  • Croatian: “Istok Azije”
  • Czech: “Východní Asie”
  • Danish: “Østasien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Asya Rocvetışi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Asyay Rocvetışi”
  • Dutch: “Oost-Azië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شرق اسيا”
  • Esperanto: “Orienta Azio”
  • Estonian: “Ida-Aasia”
  • Finnish: “Itä-Aasia”
  • French: “Asie de l’Est”
  • French: “Asie orientale”
  • Galician: “Asia Oriental”
  • Gan Chinese: “東亞”
  • Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი აზია”
  • German: “Ostasien”
  • Greek: “Ανατολική Ασία”
  • Guarani: “Kuarahyresẽ Asia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tûng-”
  • Hebrew: “מזרח אסיה”
  • Hindi: “पूर्वी एशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Kelet-Ázsia”
  • Iban: “Asia Timur”
  • Icelandic: “Austur-Asía”
  • Ido: “Estal Azia”
  • Iloko: “Akindaya nga Asia”
  • Iloko: “Daya nga Asia”
  • Inari Sami: “Nuorttâ-Aasia”
  • Indonesian: “Asia Timur”
  • Irish: “an Áise Thoir”
  • Italian: “Asia orientale”
  • Italian: “Estremo Oriente”
  • Japanese: “東アジア”
  • Japanese: “極東アジア”
  • Javanese: “Asia Timur”
  • Javanese: “Asia Wétan”
  • Kannada: “ಪೂರ್ವ ಏಷ್ಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Shıg’ıs Aziya”
  • Kashmiri: “مَشرِقی ایشیا”
  • Kazakh: “Шығыс Азия”
  • Khmer: “អាស៊ីខាងកើត”
  • Kinaray-A: “Asya Nasidlangan”
  • Kinaray-A: “Nasidlangan nga Asya”
  • Kirghiz: “Чыгыш Азия”
  • Komering: “Asia Darak”
  • Komering: “Asiya Darak”
  • Korean: “동아세아”
  • Korean: “동아시아”
  • Kotava: “Ronefa Asia”
  • Kurdish: “Asyaya Rojhilat”
  • Ladino: “Asya Oryentala”
  • Lao: “ອາຊີຕາເວັນອອກ”
  • Latin: “Asia orientalis”
  • Latvian: “Austrumāzija”
  • Limburgan: “Oos-Azië”
  • Lingala: “Azía ya Monyɛlɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Asia este”
  • Literary Chinese: “東亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Rytų Azija”
  • Lombard: “Asia oriental”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ostasien”
  • Macedonian: “Источна Азија”
  • Magahi: “पूरुबी एसिया”
  • Magahi: “पूर्वी एसिया”
  • Malagasy: “Azia Atsinanana”
  • Malay: “Asia Timur”
  • Malay: “اسيا تيمور”
  • Malayalam: “പൂർവേഷ്യ”
  • Malayalam: “പൂർവ്വേഷ്യ”
  • Maori: “Āhia-ki-te-Rāwhiti”
  • Marathi: “पूर्व आशिया”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dĕ̤ng-ā”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tang A-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tang-a”
  • Minangkabau: “Asia Timur”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟაეიოლი აზია”
  • Moksha: “Шистяма Азия”
  • Mongolian: “Дорнод Ази”
  • Mongolian: “Зүүн Ази”
  • Nepali: “पूर्व एशिया”
  • Nepali: “पूर्वी एसिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Uastaasien”
  • Northern Sami: “Nuorta-Ásia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Asia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Asia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “austlege Asia”
  • Norwegian: “Øst-Asia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asia de l’Èst”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Asia Orientala”
  • Oromo: “Eeshiyaa Bahaa”
  • Ossetian: “Скæсæн Ази”
  • Paiwan: “pasakacedas tua asiya”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੂਰਬੀ ਏਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “شرق آسیا”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eist Asya”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eisten Asya”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Eistern Asya”
  • Polish: “Azja Wschodnia”
  • Polish: “Daleki Wschód”
  • Portuguese: “Ásia Oriental”
  • Portuguese: “Extremo Oriente”
  • Pushto: “ختيځه اسيا”
  • Romanian: “Asia de Est Îndepărtată”
  • Romanian: “Asia de Est”
  • Romanian: “Asia Orientală”
  • Russian: “Восточная Азия”
  • Sakizaya: “nuwalian nu Ya-Cuo”
  • Sanskrit: “पूर्व एशिया”
  • Sanskrit: “पूर्व जम्बुद्वीपः”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱢᱟᱝ ᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Àsia orientale”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Àisia an Ear”
  • Serbian: “Источна Азија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Istočna Azija”
  • Siberian Tatar: “Ҡышлыҡ Азия”
  • Sicilian: “Asia livanti”
  • Sindhi: “اوڀر ايشيا”
  • Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර ආසියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Nuõrtt-Aasia”
  • Slovak: “Východná Ázia”
  • Slovenian: “Vzhodna Azija”
  • Somali: “Wadanamaha Bari Asia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دوغو آسیا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شرقی آسیا”
  • Spanish: “Asia Oriental”
  • Sundanese: “Asia Wétan”
  • Sundanese: “ᮃᮞᮤᮃ ᮝᮦᮒᮔ᮪”
  • Swahili: “Asia ya Mashariki”
  • Swedish: “Östasien”
  • Tagalog: “Silangang Asya”
  • Tajik: “Осиёи Шарқӣ”
  • Tamil: “கிழக்காசியா”
  • Tatar: “Көнчыгыш Азия”
  • Telugu: “తూర్పు ఆసియా”
  • Thai: “เอเชียตะวันออก”
  • Tibetan: “ཨེ་ཤ་ཡ་ཤར་མ་”
  • Turkish: “Doğu Asya”
  • Turkmen: “Gündogar Aziýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Мурнуу Азия”
  • Uighur: “شەرقىي ئاسىيا”
  • Ukrainian: “Далекий Схід”
  • Ukrainian: “Східна Азія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wuchodna Azija”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی ایشیا”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی ایشیاء”
  • Uzbek: “Sharqiy Osiyo”
  • Venetian: “Àzia Orientałe”
  • Vietnamese: “Á Đông”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đông Á”
  • Vietnamese: “Đông Á”
  • Vietnamese: “Viễn Đông”
  • Vlaams: “Ôost-Azië”
  • Volapük: “Lofüda-Siyop”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sinirangan nga Asya”
  • Welsh: “Dwyrain Asia”
  • Western Frisian: “East-Aazje”
  • Western Panjabi: “چڑھدا ایشیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “مشرقی ایشیا”
  • Wolof: “Penku Asi”
  • Wu Chinese: “东亚”
  • Yakut: “Илин Азия”
  • Yiddish: “מזרח אזיע”
  • Yoruba: “Ìlàoòrùn Ásíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “東亞”
  • Zhuang: “Dunghya”
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