East Asia is a
subregion of
Asia that can be defined in either
geographical or
cultural terms.
Geographically, it covers about 12,000,000 km², or about 28% of the Asian
continent and about 15 igger than the area of
Europe. More than 1.5
billion people, about 40% 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, 130 per km², is about three times the world average.
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