Sierra Acai Company
Sierra Acai Company
Open 7 Days a Week
MonaVie Independent Distributor
Distributor Training
Shop Online
Enroll Now
Buy Wholesale and maintain an Active status for 2 months and we will refund your $39 Distributor Fee
Friends
Buy Wholesale and maintain an Active status for 2 months and we will refund your $39 Distributor Fee
14-September-2008 18:38:49 - East Asia This article is about the geographical region. For the Miyuki Nakajima album, see East Asia album. For the fictional superstate, see Eastasia Nineteen Eighty-Four. East Asia Area 11,839,074 km²1 Population 1,555,784,5002 Density 131 per km² Countries and Territories Mainland China Hong Kong Japan Macau Mongolia North Korea South Korea Taiwan Languages and language families Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, and many others Time zones UTC +7:00 Western Mongolia to UTC +9:00 Japan and Korean Peninsula Capital cities Beijing Pyongyang Seoul Taipei3 Tokyo Ulan Bator Other major cities Busan, Guangzhou Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Osaka, Shanghai, Yokohama. East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical4 or cultural5 terms. Geographically, it covers about 12,000,000 km², or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe. More than 1.5 billion people, about 40 percent of the population of Asia or a quarter of all the people in the world, live in geographic East Asia, which is about twice the population of Europe. The region is one of the world's most crowded places. The population density of East Asia, 131 per km², is about three times the world average of 45 per km².6 Historically, many societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script. Major religions include Buddhism mostly Mahayana, Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion, and Shinto in Japan. This combination of language, political philosophy, and religion as well as art, architecture, holidays and festivals, etc. overlaps with the geographical designation of East Asia for the most part,citation needed with a few exceptions, such as the overseas Chinese including those in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the West. East Asia and Eastern Asia the latter form preferred by the United Nations are both more modern terms for the traditional name the Far East7, which describes the region's geographical position in relation to Europe rather than its location within Asia. However, in contrast to the United Nations definition, East Asia commonly is used to refer to the eastern part of Asia, as the term implies. Contents 1 Other uses of the term East Asia 2 Other subregions of Asia 3 See also 4 Notes and references 5 External links Other uses of the term East Asia The following political entities are consistently seen as located in geographical East Asia:4 Flag of the People's Republic of China People's Republic of China 8 Including the Special Administrative Regions of Flag of Hong Kong Hong Kong and Flag of Macau Macau Flag of Japan Japan Flag of South Korea South Korea Republic of Korea Flag of North Korea North Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea Flag of the Republic of China Republic of China Taiwan9 East Asia Geographical East Asiadubious - discuss Geographic East Asia shaded in green4, including the Chinese far east in intermediate green, which is also regarded as Central Asian and other areas in light green which are also under other definitions1081112131415161718 Chinese name Traditional Chinese: æ?±äºž Simplified Chinese: 东亚 Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: DÅ?ngyà - Wade-Giles: Tung1-ya3 Min - Hokkien POJ: Tang-a Yue Cantonese - Jyutping: dung1 aa3 Japanese name Kanji: æ?±äºœ Kana: ã?²ã?Œã?—アジア Transliterations - Revised Hepburn: Higashi Ajia - Kunrei-shiki: Higasi Azia Korean name Hangul: ë?™ì•„시아 Hanja: æ?±äºžç´°äºž Transliterations - Revised Romanization: Dong Asia - McCune- Reischauer: Tong Asia Mongolian name Mongolian: Зүүн Ð?зи á µá ¤á ¨ á á µá ¢ Züün Azi Russian name Russian: ВоÑ?точнаÑ? Ð?зиÑ? Romanization: Vostochnaja Azija Vietnamese name Quốc ngữ: Ä?ông Ã? Hán tá»±: æ?±äºž Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:East Asia In addition the following countries are sometimes included in the definition of East Asia Flag of Mongolia Mongolia4 Flag of Russia Siberia, Russia 419 considered either East Asia or North Asia Flag of Vietnam Vietnam5 The following peoples or societies are commonly seen as being encompassed by cultural East Asia:20212223 Chinese society including the predominantly Chinese regions outside China proper, such as Singapore and Taiwan Japanese society Korean society Vietnamese society Some consider the following countries or regions as part of East Asia, while others do not.citation needed Disagreements hinge on the difference between the cultural and geographic definitions of the term. Political perspective is also an important factor. In descending order in terms of the frequency with which they are described as East Asian:citation needed The parts of China that are not historically dominated by Han Chinese: Qinghai, Tibet, Xinjiang considered either East Asia or Central Asia or South Asia in the case of Tibet242526272829-here the primary question is cultural, with geography also at issue Flag of Mongolia Mongolia considered either East Asia or Central Asia-here culture and/or geography may be at issue Flag of Singapore Singapore considered either East Asia or Southeast Asia-here the primary question is geographic Flag of Vietnam Vietnam considered either East Asia or Southeast Asia-here the primary question is geographic Flag of Russia Russian Far East considered either East Asia or North Asia-here the primary question is political, with culture and geography also at issue In infrequent circumstances, the term East Asia is purposefully used to include all countries in Southeast Asia, especially when used in dualism with the term West Asia, the latter of which is then used to include those regions commonly considered West Asia, Central Asia and Southwest Asia.citation needed Other subregions of Asia Southeast Asia South Asia Central Asia Southwest Asia or West Asia One definition of the Middle East is synonymous with Southwest Asia North Asia Siberia Northern Eurasia Extends into part of Europe Central Eurasia Extends into part of Europe See also Cities of East Asia East Asian studies Asian Network of Major Cities 21 East Asian languages East Asian calligraphy Four Asian Tigers - a label pertinent to the recent economic history of the region. East Asia Summit History of East Asia Sinosphere East Asian Community Russian Far East East Asia north of this area Notes and references ^ The area figure is based on the combined areas of the People's Republic of China including Hong Kong, Macau, Aksai Chin, and Trans-Karakoram Tract, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and the Republic of China Taiwan as listed at List of countries and outlying territories by total area. ^ The population figure is the combined populations of the People's Republic of China Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Republic of China Taiwan as listed at List of countries by population last updated March 8, 2008. ^ Dispute due to mainly Political status of Taiwan between governments of Republic of China and People's Republic of China. ^ a b c d e East Asia. encarta. Micosoft. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. East A·sia st áyï ¤É™ the countries, territories, and regions of China, Hong Kong, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Macau, Mongolia, parts of Russia, and Taiwan. ^ a b Columbia University - East Asian cultural sphere The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period that of the Tang dynasty, in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system. ^ See, List of countries by population density ^ Far East. encarta. Micosoft. Retrieved on 2008-01-12. Far East fr st a former term for the countries of East Asia, sometimes extended to include those of Southeast Asia dated ^ a b 1, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, saying: The present political boundaries of China, which include Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Sinkiang, and the northeastern provinces formerly called Manchuria, embrace a far larger area of East Asia than will be discussed here.... ^ The Republic of China Taiwan is has limited recognition within the international community as a sovereign state, see Political status of Taiwan. ^ Plateaus, National Geographic Society ^ East Asian Region - Tibet ^ Department of East Asian Studies, University of Helsinki ^ Tibet is considered Central AsianTibet - Britannica Online Encyclopedia ^ http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2004.03.13.html Xinjiang: Central Asia or China? ^ http://www.ceibs.edu/ase/Documents/rethinking.htm Rethinking Central Asia ^ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15095a.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Turkestan ^ http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2008/05/22/china-reconnects-with-tajikistan.html China Invests in Central Asia Stability Through Tajikistan Xinjiang, a name meaning new territory in Mandarin, was militarily captured and annexed by China after World War II. Its 8 million residents are made up of mostly Muslim Turkic groups that include the Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, Tatars, Kazakhs, and the Tajiks that profess affinity with Central Asia than with the local Han Chinese. refers to the indigenous people as being Central Asian ^ 9789622177901 Tredinnick, Jeremy and Christoph Baumer and Judy Bonavia. Xinjiang: China's Central Asia, -: Odyssey Publications, 2008. ^ MSN Encarta, East Asia ^ Columbia University East Asian Cultural Sphere 2 ^ R. Keith Schopper's East Asia: Identities and Change in the Modern World 3 ^ Joshua A. Fogel UC Santa Barbara/University of Indiana Nationalism, the Rise of the Vernacular, and the Conceptualization of Modernization in East Asian Comparative Perspective 4 ^ United Nations Environment Programme mentions sinosphere countries Approaches to Solution of Eutrophication 5 ^ Center for South Asia Studies: University of California, Berkeley 6 ^ Center for South Asia Outreach UW-Madison 7 ^ Department of South Asia Studies: University of Pennsylvania 8 ^ South Asia Language Resource Center: The University of Chicago 9 ^ AIIS Advanced Language Programs in India 10 ^ Tibet is located on the Tibetan Plateau which is in Central Asia.11 External links Look up East Asia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. High resolution map of East Asian region v d e Regions of the world Location of Africa Africa North Maghreb · Central · South · West · East Location of the Middle East Middle East Arabian Peninsula · Caucasus · Levant · Mesopotamia · Persian Plateau Location of the Americas Americas North Northern Middle Central Caribbean · South Southern Cone · Anglo · Latin Location of Oceania Oceania Australasia · Melanesia · Micronesia · Polynesia Location of Asia Asia East Far East Asia-Pacific · Southeast Indochina Malay Archipelago · South · Southwest · Central · North Siberia Location of the Polar regions Polar Arctic · Antarctica Location of Europe Europe West · Central · East · North · South Oceans of the world Oceans World · Arctic · Atlantic · Indian · Pacific · Southern See also Continents of the world Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/East_Asia Categories: Regions of Asia | East AsiaHidden categories: All articles with statements | Articles with statements since January 2008 | All pages needing cleanup | Articles with disputed statements Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Afrikaans العربية Bân-lâm-gú Bosanski БългарÑ?ки Català Česky Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto Euskara Français 贛語 í•œêµì–´ Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Italiano עברית ಕನà³?ನಡ Latina Lietuvių Magyar Bahasa Melayu Nederlands 日本語 ភាសាáž?្មែរ Polski Português Română РуÑ?Ñ?кий Sicilianu Simple English SlovenÄ?ina SlovenÅ¡Ä?ina Suomi Svenska தமிழà¯? ไทย Tiếng Việt УкраїнÑ?ька Wolof å?´è¯ 粵語 ä¸æ–‡ This page was last modified on 12 September 2008, at 09:21
39 Reasons to Drink Acai Juice Every Day
What is MonaVie - Watch the 8-minute video
Discovering MonaVie Video
The Power of You Video
Effects of MonaVie Active on Antioxidant Capacity in Humans
Log into your Wholesale MonaVie Account
So many of us do not eat a balanced diet, get enough sleep, have too much stress, or are impacted with toxins and pollutants. Drinking 2 ounces of MonaVie twice a day will help your body detoxify as well as build your immune system. Its the smartest thing you can do for yourself, so start today. Buying MonaVie through our company guarantees you support 7 days a week and, if you would like to share MonaVie with your family and friends we will guide you from start to finish.
1. Click on Enroll Now (30 - 55% off retail price)
2. Pay $39 for your Wholesale ID number.
3. NO minimum order required.
4. MonaVie is delivered to your door in 3 to 5 days.