East Asia. 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[1] or cultural[2] terms.
Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km2 (4,600,000 sq mi), or about 28% of the Asian continent, about 15% bigger than the area of Europe. More than 1.5 billion people, about 38% of the population of Asia and 22% or over one fifth of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. Geography of Asia. Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 map of Johan Christoph Homann.
Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. The Asia of this map geographically differs only in minor details from the maps of today. The political arrangements are somewhat different.