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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%89" title="الشرق الأقصى – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="الشرق الأقصى" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Orient" title="Extremo Orient – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Extremo Orient" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88xtr%C3%A8mo-Oriant" title="Èxtrèmo-Oriant – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Èxtrèmo-Oriant" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzaq_%C5%9E%C9%99rq" title="Uzaq Şərq – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Uzaq Şərq" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%82_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%88" title="اوزاق دوغو – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اوزاق دوغو" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9A%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF" title="দূরপ্রাচ্য – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="দূরপ্রাচ্য" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C3%A1n-tang" title="Oán-tang – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Oán-tang" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8B%D2%AB_%D0%9A%D3%A9%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%8B%D2%93%D1%8B%D1%88" title="Алыҫ Көнсығыш – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Алыҫ Көнсығыш" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%91%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%A3%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="Далёкі Усход – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Далёкі Усход" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%91%D0%BA%D1%96_%D0%8E%D1%81%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="Далёкі Ўсход – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Далёкі Ўсход" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harayong_Subangan" title="Harayong Subangan – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Harayong Subangan" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%B8%D0%B7%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Далечен изток – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Далечен изток" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_istok" title="Daleki istok – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Daleki istok" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reter-Pella%C3%B1" title="Reter-Pellañ – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Reter-Pellañ" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81_%D0%94%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0" title="Алас Дурна – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Алас Дурна" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrem_Orient" title="Extrem Orient – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Extrem Orient" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%C3%A7%D0%B5%D1%82_%D0%A2%D1%83%D1%85%C4%83%C3%A7" title="Инçет Тухăç – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Инçет Тухăç" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1ln%C3%BD_v%C3%BDchod" title="Dálný východ – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dálný východ" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Dwyrain_Pell" title="Y Dwyrain Pell – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Y Dwyrain Pell" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjern%C3%B8sten" title="Fjernøsten – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Fjernøsten" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferner_Osten" title="Ferner Osten – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ferner Osten" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaug-Ida" title="Kaug-Ida – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kaug-Ida" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%86%CF%80%CF%89_%CE%91%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%AE" title="Άπω Ανατολή – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Άπω Ανατολή" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Oriente" title="Extremo Oriente – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Extremo Oriente" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fora_Oriento" title="Fora Oriento – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Fora Oriento" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekialde_Urruna" title="Ekialde Urruna – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ekialde Urruna" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1" title="خاور دور – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="خاور دور" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extr%C3%AAme-Orient" title="Extrême-Orient – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Extrême-Orient" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiere_Easten" title="Fiere Easten – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Fiere Easten" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Oriente" title="Extremo Oriente – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Extremo Oriente" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%A9n-t%C3%BBng" title="Yén-tûng – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Yén-tûng" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B7%B9%EB%8F%99" title="극동 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="극동" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%80_%D4%B1%D6%80%D6%87%D5%A5%D5%AC%D6%84" title="Հեռավոր Արևելք – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հեռավոր Արևելք" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_istok" title="Daleki istok – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Daleki istok" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrem_Oriento" title="Extrem Oriento – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Extrem Oriento" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adayo_a_Daya" title="Adayo a Daya – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Adayo a Daya" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Jauh" title="Timur Jauh – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Timur Jauh" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longe_Oriente" title="Longe Oriente – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Longe Oriente" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austurl%C3%B6nd_fj%C3%A6r" title="Austurlönd fjær – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Austurlönd fjær" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estremo_Oriente" title="Estremo Oriente – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Estremo Oriente" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%97_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A7" title="המזרח הרחוק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המזרח הרחוק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A9tan_Adoh" title="Wétan Adoh – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Wétan Adoh" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A8%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A6%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="შორეული აღმოსავლეთი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="შორეული აღმოსავლეთი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojhilata_D%C3%BBr" title="Rojhilata Dûr – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Rojhilata Dûr" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AB%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8B_%D0%A7%D1%8B%D0%B3%D1%8B%D1%88" title="Ыраакы Чыгыш – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Ыраакы Чыгыш" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D3%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D3%B9%D1%80_%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Мӹндӹр Ирвел – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Мӹндӹр Ирвел" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кырык мары</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81lie_Austrumi" title="Tālie Austrumi – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Tālie Austrumi" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolimieji_Rytai" title="Tolimieji Rytai – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Tolimieji Rytai" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1vol-Kelet" title="Távol-Kelet – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Távol-Kelet" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%98%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Далечен Исток – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Далечен Исток" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsinanana_Indrindra" title="Atsinanana Indrindra – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Atsinanana Indrindra" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A8%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%91%E1%83%9F%E1%83%90%E1%83%94%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="შორიშ ბჟაეიოლი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="შორიშ ბჟაეიოლი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Jauh" title="Timur Jauh – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Timur Jauh" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%8Dng-d%C4%95%CC%A4ng" title="Uōng-dĕ̤ng – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Uōng-dĕ̤ng" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%81_%D0%94%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4" title="Алс Дорнод – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Алс Дорнод" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verre_Oosten" title="Verre Oosten – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Verre Oosten" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A5%B5%E6%9D%B1" title="極東 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="極東" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_fjerne_%C3%B8sten" title="Det fjerne østen – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Det fjerne østen" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_fjerne_Austen" title="Det fjerne Austen – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Det fjerne Austen" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzoq_Sharq" title="Uzoq Sharq – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Uzoq Sharq" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A6%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%82%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AC" title="ਦੁਰਾਡਾ ਪੂਰਬ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਦੁਰਾਡਾ ਪੂਰਬ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82_%D8%A8%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%AF" title="مشرق بعید – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="مشرق بعید" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_Wsch%C3%B3d" title="Daleki Wschód – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Daleki Wschód" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Oriente" title="Extremo Oriente – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Extremo Oriente" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientul_%C3%8Endep%C4%83rtat" title="Orientul Îndepărtat – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Orientul Îndepărtat" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Дальний Восток – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Дальний Восток" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D2%BB%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%98%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD" title="Уһук Илин – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Уһук Илин" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Саха тыла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/mabataday_a_walian" title="mabataday a walian – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="mabataday a walian" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sakizaya</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindja_e_Larg%C3%ABt" title="Lindja e Largët – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Lindja e Largët" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livanti_stremu" title="Livanti stremu – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Livanti stremu" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_East" title="Far East – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Far East" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Ealek%C3%BD_v%C3%BDchod_(%C3%81zia)" title="Ďaleký východ (Ázia) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Ďaleký východ (Ázia)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daljni_vzhod" title="Daljni vzhod – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Daljni vzhod" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_Wesch%C5%8Dd" title="Daleki Weschōd – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Daleki Weschōd" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ślůnski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%86%DA%98%DA%BE%DB%95%DA%B5%D8%A7%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1" title="ڕۆژھەڵاتی دوور – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ڕۆژھەڵاتی دوور" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Далеки исток – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Далеки исток" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_istok" title="Daleki istok – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Daleki istok" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaukoit%C3%A4" title="Kaukoitä – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Kaukoitä" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%A4rran_%C3%96stern" title="Fjärran Östern – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Fjärran Östern" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayong_Silangan" title="Malayong Silangan – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Malayong Silangan" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81" title="தொலை கிழக்கு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="தொலை கிழக்கு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D3%A9%D0%BD%D1%87%D1%8B%D0%B3%D1%8B%D1%88" title="Ерак Көнчыгыш – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Ерак Көнчыгыш" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%A5" title="ตะวันออกไกล – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ตะวันออกไกล" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzak_Do%C4%9Fu" title="Uzak Doğu – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Uzak Doğu" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzak_G%C3%BCndogar" title="Uzak Gündogar – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Uzak Gündogar" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkmençe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B4" title="Далекий Схід – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Далекий Схід" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li 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style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Thai name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Thai-language text"><span lang="th">ตะวันออกไกล</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Thai_General_System_of_Transcription" title="Royal Thai General System of Transcription">RTGS</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Royal Thai General System of Transcription"><i lang="th-Latn">Tawan-ok Klai</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Korean name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hangul" title="Hangul">Hangul</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko" style="font-size: 1rem;">극동</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanja" title="Hanja">Hanja</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko" style="font-size: 1rem;">極東</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Revised_Romanization_of_Korean" title="Revised Romanization of Korean">Revised Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Korean-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="ko-Latn">Geuk Dong</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Reischauer" title="McCune–Reischauer">McCune–Reischauer</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Korean-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="ko-Latn">Kŭk Tong</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Mongolian name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Cyrillic_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian Cyrillic script">Mongolian Cyrillic</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Mongolian-language text"><span lang="mn">Алс Дорнод <br /> <span title="Mongolian-language romanization"><i lang="mn-Latn">Als Dornod</i></span></span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Japanese name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Kanji" title="Kanji">Kanji</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">極東</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hiragana" title="Hiragana">Hiragana</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">きょくとう</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Katakana" title="Katakana">Katakana</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">キョクトー</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Japanese" title="Romanization of Japanese">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Japanese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="ja-Latn">Kyoku Tō</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Malay name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Malay (macrolanguage)-language text"><span lang="ms">تيمور جا<sup>ء</sup>وه <br /> <span title="Malay (macrolanguage)-language romanization"><i lang="ms-Latn">Timur Jauh</i></span></span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Indonesian name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Indonesian-language text"><i lang="id">Timur Jauh</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Filipino name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language">Tagalog</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Tagalog-language text"><span lang="tl">ᜃᜐᜒᜎᜅᜈᜈ᜔ <br /> <span title="Tagalog-script transliteration"><span>Kasilanganan</span></span> <br /> ᜐᜒᜎᜅᜈᜈ᜔ <br /> <span title="Tagalog-script transliteration"><span>Silanganan</span></span> (<a href="/wiki/Lupang_Hinirang" title="Lupang Hinirang">poetic</a>)<br /> ᜋᜎᜌᜓᜅ᜔ ᜐᜒᜎᜅᜈ᜔ <br /> <span title="Tagalog-script transliteration"><span>Malayong Silangan</span></span> (literal)</span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Tamil name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Tamil-language text"><span lang="ta">தூர கிழக்கு <br /> <span title="ISO 15919 Indic (Tamil language) transliteration"><i lang="ta-Latn">Tūra Kiḻakku</i></span></span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Portuguese name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Extremo Oriente</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Russian name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Russian-language text"><span lang="ru">Дальний Восток <br /> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">IPA:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ru-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Russian" title="Help:IPA/Russian">[ˈdalʲnʲɪj<span class="wrap"> </span>vɐˈstok]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian" title="Romanization of Russian">Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Russian-language text"><i lang="ru-Latn">Dál'niy Vostók</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Lao name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Lao_language" title="Lao language">Lao</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Lao-language text"><span lang="lo">ຕາເວັນອອກໄກ <br /> Taven-ok kai</span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Khmer name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Khmer_language" title="Khmer language">Khmer</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Khmer-language text"><span lang="km">ចុងបូព៌ា<br /><span title="Khmer-language romanization"><i lang="km-Latn">Chong Bopea</i></span></span></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Tetum name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tetum_language" title="Tetum language">Tetum</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Tetum-language text"><i lang="tet">Dok Lorosa'e</i></span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Far East</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Geographical_region" class="mw-redirect" title="Geographical region">geographical region</a> that encompasses the easternmost portion of the <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asian</a> continent, including <a href="/wiki/North_Asia" title="North Asia">North</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a> is sometimes also included in the definition of the term.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In modern times, the term <i>Far East</i> has widely fallen out of use and been substituted by <a href="/wiki/Asia%E2%80%93Pacific" title="Asia–Pacific">Asia–Pacific</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the terms <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> and <a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a>, although now pertaining to different territories, are still commonly used today. </p><p>The term first came into use in European geopolitical discourse in the 15th century, particularly the <a href="/wiki/British_people" title="British people">British</a>, denoting the Far East as the "farthest" of the three "Easts", beyond the <a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, during the <a href="/wiki/Qing_dynasty" title="Qing dynasty">Qing dynasty</a> of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the term "<a href="/wiki/Far_West_(Taixi)" title="Far West (Taixi)">Tàixī</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">泰西</span></span>)" – i.e., anything further west than the <a href="/wiki/Arab_world" title="Arab world">Arab world</a> – was used to refer to the Western countries. </p><p>Since the mid-20th century, the term has mostly gone out of use for the region in international mass media outlets due to its perceived <a href="/wiki/Eurocentric" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurocentric">Eurocentric</a> connotations.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Economist_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Economist-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reischauer_1960_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reischauer_1960-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/North_Asia" title="North Asia">North Asia</a> is sometimes excluded due to cultural and ethnic differences.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The term is still used in Russia to refer to its <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">sparsely populated easternmost regions</a> (being "far" in this case from the political, economic and cultural centres, <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularization">Popularization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_East&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Popularization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among Western Europeans, prior to the <a href="/wiki/Early_modern_period" title="Early modern period">colonial era</a>, <i>Far East</i> referred to anything further east than the Middle East. In the 16th century, King <a href="/wiki/John_III_of_Portugal" title="John III of Portugal">John III of Portugal</a> called <a href="/wiki/Colonial_India" title="Colonial India">India</a> a "rich and interesting country in the Far East<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Extremo Oriente</i></span>)." The term was popularized during the period of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a> as a blanket term for lands to the east of <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a>. </p><p>In pre-<a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> European geopolitics, <i>Near East</i> referred to the relatively nearby lands of the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>, <i>Middle East</i> denoted <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_South_Asia" title="Northwestern South Asia">north-western Southern Asian region</a> and <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>, and the <i>Far East</i> meant countries along the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean. Many European languages have analogous terms, such as the French (<i><span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extr%C3%AAme-Orient" class="extiw" title="fr:Extrême-Orient">Extrême-Orient</a></i></span></i>), Spanish (<i><span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Oriente" class="extiw" title="es:Extremo Oriente">Extremo Oriente</a></i></span></i>), <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> (<i><span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremo_Oriente" class="extiw" title="pt:Extremo Oriente">Extremo Oriente</a></i></span></i>), Italian (<i><span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estremo_Oriente" class="extiw" title="it:Estremo Oriente">Estremo Oriente</a></i></span></i>), German (<i><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferner_Osten" class="extiw" title="de:Ferner Osten">Ferner Osten</a></i></span></i>), <a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a> (<i><span title="Polish-language text"><i lang="pl"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleki_Wsch%C3%B3d" class="extiw" title="pl:Daleki Wschód">Daleki Wschód</a></i></span></i>), <a href="/wiki/Norwegian_language" title="Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> (<i><span title="Norwegian-language text"><i lang="no"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_fjerne_%C3%98sten" class="extiw" title="no:Det fjerne Østen">Det fjerne Østen</a></i></span></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> (<i><span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verre_Oosten" class="extiw" title="nl:Verre Oosten">Verre Oosten</a></i></span></i>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_and_geographic_meaning">Cultural and geographic meaning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_East&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cultural and geographic meaning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Significantly, the term evokes cultural as well as geographic separation; the <i>Far East</i> is not just geographically distant, but also culturally exotic. It never refers, for instance, to the culturally Western nations of Australia and New Zealand, which lie even farther to the east of Europe than East Asia itself. This combination of cultural and geographic subjectivity was well illustrated in 1939 by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Menzies" title="Robert Menzies">Robert Menzies</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Australia" title="Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister of Australia</a>. Reflecting on his country's geopolitical situation with the onset of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">war</a>, Menzies commented that: "The problems of the Pacific are different. What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Far East</i>, in its usual sense, is comparable to terms such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Orient" title="Orient">Orient</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> for "East"), <i><a href="/wiki/Eastern_world" title="Eastern world">Eastern world</a></i>, or simply <i>the East</i>, all of which may refer, broadly, to East and South-East Asia in general. Occasionally, albeit more in the past, the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a> have been deemed to be part of the Far East. </p><p>Commenting on such terms, <a href="/wiki/John_K._Fairbank" class="mw-redirect" title="John K. Fairbank">John K. Fairbank</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edwin_O._Reischauer" title="Edwin O. Reischauer">Edwin O. Reischauer</a> (both professors of East Asian Studies at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>) wrote, in <i>East Asia: The Great Tradition</i>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When Europeans traveled far to the east to reach <a href="/wiki/Cathay" title="Cathay">Cathay</a>, Japan and the <a href="/wiki/East_Indies" title="East Indies">Indies</a>, they naturally gave those distant regions the general name 'Far East.' Americans who reached China, Japan and Southeast Asia by sail and steam across the Pacific could, with equal logic, have called that area the 'Far West.' For the people who live in that part of the world, however, it is neither 'East' nor 'West' and certainly not 'Far.' A more generally acceptable term for the area is 'East Asia,' which is geographically more precise and does not imply the outdated notion that Europe is the center of the civilized world.<sup id="cite_ref-Reischauer_1960_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reischauer_1960-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Today, the term remains in the names of some longstanding institutions, including the <a href="/wiki/Far_Eastern_Federal_University" title="Far Eastern Federal University">Far Eastern Federal University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vladivostok" title="Vladivostok">Vladivostok</a>, <a href="/wiki/Far_Eastern_University" title="Far Eastern University">Far Eastern University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Far_East_University_(Korea)" title="Far East University (Korea)">Far East University</a> in South Korea, and <i>Far East</i>, the periodical magazine of the <a href="/wiki/Missionary_Society_of_St._Columban" title="Missionary Society of St. Columban">Missionary Society of St. Columban</a>. Furthermore, the United States and United Kingdom have historically incorporated <i>Far East</i> in the names of several military units and commands in the region, such as the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Far_East_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="Far East Fleet">Far East Fleet</a>, for instance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Territories_and_regions_conventionally_included_in_the_Far_East">Territories and regions conventionally included in the Far East</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_East&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Territories and regions conventionally included in the Far East"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name of <a href="/wiki/Subregion" title="Subregion">region</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and<br />territory, with <a href="/wiki/Flag" title="Flag">flag</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_area" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by area">Area</a><br />(km<sup>2</sup>) </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by population">Population</a><br /> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by population density">Population density</a><br />(per km<sup>2</sup>) </th> <th>Capital </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Forms_of_government" class="mw-redirect" title="Forms of government">Forms of government</a> </th> <th>Currency </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Official_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Official languages">Official languages</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="8">North Asia </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"><img alt="Russia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_Russia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">13,100,000 </td> <td align="right">37,600,000 </td> <td align="right">2.6 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Federal_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal system">Federal</a> <a href="/wiki/Semi-presidential_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-presidential system">semi-presidential</a> republic </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Russian_ruble" title="Russian ruble">Ruble</a> </td> <td>Russian and <br /><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Russia" title="Languages of Russia">27 other co-official languages</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="8">East Asia </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">9,598,094<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">1,371,821,094<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">145.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/One-party_state" title="One-party state">One-party</a> <a href="/wiki/Socialist_state" title="Socialist state">socialist republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Renminbi" title="Renminbi">Yuan (Renminbi)</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Standard_Mandarin" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard Mandarin">Chinese (Mandarin)</a><sup id="cite_ref-langlaw_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-langlaw-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="lightblue"> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg/45px-Flag_of_Hong_Kong.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">1,108 </td> <td align="right">7,448,900 </td> <td align="right">6,777.0 </td> <td><i>Hong Kong</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_regions_of_China" title="Special administrative regions of China">Special administrative region</a><br />of the People's Republic of China </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_dollar" title="Hong Kong dollar">Hong Kong dollar</a> </td> <td>Chinese,<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />English </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/40px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/60px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> </td> <td align="right">377,973 </td> <td align="right">126,440,000 </td> <td align="right">334.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">Parliamentary democracy</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">Constitutional monarchy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">Yen</a> </td> <td>None<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="lightblue"> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Macau.svg/40px-Flag_of_Macau.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Macau.svg/60px-Flag_of_Macau.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">115.3 </td> <td align="right">653,100 </td> <td align="right">21,340.0 </td> <td><i>Macau</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_regions_of_China" title="Special administrative regions of China">Special administrative region</a><br />of the People's Republic of China </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Macanese_pataca" title="Macanese pataca">Pataca</a> </td> <td>Chinese,<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Flag_of_Mongolia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Mongolia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a> </td> <td align="right">1,566,000 </td> <td align="right">3,081,677 </td> <td align="right">1.97 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ulaanbaatar" title="Ulaanbaatar">Ulaanbaatar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Semi-presidential_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-presidential system">Semi-presidential system</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_t%C3%B6gr%C3%B6g" title="Mongolian tögrög">Tögrög</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_language" title="Mongolian language">Mongolian</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/40px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Flag_of_North_Korea.svg/60px-Flag_of_North_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a> </td> <td align="right">120,540 </td> <td align="right">25,368,620 </td> <td align="right">212.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pyongyang" title="Pyongyang">Pyongyang</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Juche" title="Juche">Juche</a> <a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">unitarian</a> dictatorship<br /> <a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist Republic">Socialist Republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Korean_won" title="North Korean won">North Korean won</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/40px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/60px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a> </td> <td align="right">100,363 </td> <td align="right">51,446,201 </td> <td align="right">507.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">Unitary</a> <a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">presidential</a> republic </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Korean_won" title="South Korean won">South Korean won</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">36,197 </td> <td align="right">23,577,271 </td> <td align="right">650.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Semi-presidential_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-presidential system">Semi-presidential system</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Taiwan_dollar" title="New Taiwan dollar">New Taiwan dollar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Chinese (Mandarin)</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="8">Southeast Asia </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/40px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_Brunei.svg/60px-Flag_of_Brunei.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="720" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Brunei" title="Brunei">Brunei</a> </td> <td align="right">5,765 </td> <td align="right">417,200 </td> <td align="right">72.11 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bandar_Seri_Begawan" title="Bandar Seri Begawan">Bandar Seri Begawan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">Absolute</a> <a href="/wiki/Islamic" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic">Islamic</a> <a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Brunei_dollar" title="Brunei dollar">Brunei dollar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a> and English </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Flag_of_Cambodia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Cambodia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="640" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a> </td> <td align="right">181,035 </td> <td align="right">16,245,729 </td> <td align="right">81.8 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Phnom_Penh" title="Phnom Penh">Phnom Penh</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">Constitutional monarchy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Riel_(currency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Riel (currency)">Riel</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Khmer_language" title="Khmer language">Khmer</a> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="lightblue"> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg/23px-Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg/35px-Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg/46px-Flag_of_Christmas_Island.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="256" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island">Christmas Island</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">135 </td> <td align="right">1,692 </td> <td align="right">12.5 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Flying_Fish_Cove" title="Flying Fish Cove">Flying Fish Cove</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">External territory</a> of Australia </td> <td>Australian dollar </td> <td>None<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="lightblue"> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_the_Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_the_Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="right">14 </td> <td align="right">593 </td> <td align="right">42.4 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Island,_Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands">West Island</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">External territory</a> of Australia </td> <td>Australian dollar </td> <td>None<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Flag_of_Indonesia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Indonesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> </td> <td align="right">1,904,569 </td> <td align="right">261,115,456 </td> <td align="right">138.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jakarta" title="Jakarta">Jakarta</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">Presidential republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_rupiah" title="Indonesian rupiah">Rupiah</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language">Indonesian</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Laos.svg/40px-Flag_of_Laos.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Flag_of_Laos.svg/60px-Flag_of_Laos.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a> </td> <td align="right">237,955 </td> <td align="right">6,758,353 </td> <td align="right">26.7 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vientiane" title="Vientiane">Vientiane</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist Republic">Socialist Republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lao_kip" title="Lao kip">Kip</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lao_language" title="Lao language">Lao</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Flag_of_Malaysia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Malaysia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> </td> <td align="right">330,803 </td> <td align="right">32,049,700 </td> <td align="right">92.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">Federal constitutional monarchy</a>, <br /><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary democracy">Parliamentary democracy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_ringgit" title="Malaysian ringgit">Ringgit</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/45px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar (Burma)</a> </td> <td align="right">676,578 </td> <td align="right">53,582,855 </td> <td align="right">76.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Naypyidaw" title="Naypyidaw">Naypyidaw</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">Unitary</a> <a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">presidential</a><br />constitutional republic </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myanmar_kyat" title="Myanmar kyat">Kyat</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Burmese_language" title="Burmese language">Burmese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/40px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg/60px-Flag_of_the_Philippines.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> </td> <td align="right">300,000 </td> <td align="right">100,981,437 </td> <td align="right">336.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Unitary_state" title="Unitary state">Unitary</a> <a href="/wiki/Presidential_system" title="Presidential system">presidential</a><br />constitutional republic </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Philippine_peso" title="Philippine peso">Philippine peso (Piso)</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Filipino_language" title="Filipino language">Filipino</a> and English </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/23px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/35px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Singapore.svg/45px-Flag_of_Singapore.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a> </td> <td align="right">722.5 </td> <td align="right">5,638,700 </td> <td align="right">7,804.0 </td> <td>Singapore </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">Parliamentary republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Singapore_dollar" title="Singapore dollar">Singapore dollar</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Malay_language" title="Malay language">Malay</a>, English, <br /><a href="/wiki/Standard_Mandarin" class="mw-redirect" title="Standard Mandarin">Chinese (Mandarin)</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/23px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/35px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_Thailand.svg/45px-Flag_of_Thailand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a> </td> <td align="right">513,120 </td> <td align="right">68,863,514 </td> <td align="right">132.1 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bangkok" title="Bangkok">Bangkok</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy" title="Constitutional monarchy">Constitutional monarchy</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_system" title="Parliamentary system">Parliamentary democracy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thai_baht" title="Thai baht">Baht</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language">Thai</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_East_Timor.svg/23px-Flag_of_East_Timor.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_East_Timor.svg/35px-Flag_of_East_Timor.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flag_of_East_Timor.svg/46px-Flag_of_East_Timor.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Timor-Leste" title="Timor-Leste">Timor-Leste (East Timor)</a> </td> <td align="right">15,410 </td> <td align="right">1,167,242 </td> <td align="right">78.0 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dili" title="Dili">Dili</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">Parliamentary republic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">U.S. dollar</a> / <a href="/wiki/East_Timorese_centavo_coins" class="mw-redirect" title="East Timorese centavo coins">Centavo coins</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tetumic_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Tetumic languages">Tetum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/45px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a> </td> <td align="right">331,212 </td> <td align="right">94,569,072 </td> <td align="right">276.03 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a> </td> <td><a 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title="Asia–Pacific">Asia–Pacific</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Asia" title="Pacific Asia">Pacific Asia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_cultural_sphere" class="mw-redirect" title="East Asian cultural sphere">East Asian cultural sphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_dichotomy" title="East–West dichotomy">East–West dichotomy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Far_West_(Taixi)" title="Far West (Taixi)">Far West</a>, a term for Europe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Asian_Tigers" title="Four Asian Tigers">Four Asian Tigers</a> – Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere" title="Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere">Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere</a>, Japanese idea from the 1930s–1940s</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Asia" title="Inner Asia">Inner Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Mongol_states" title="List of Mongol states">List of Mongol states</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Asia" title="North Asia">North Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ural_(region)" title="Ural (region)">Ural (region)</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Asia" title="Northeast Asia">Northeast Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orient" title="Orient">Orient</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_Asia" title="Tropical Asia">Tropical Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkic_migration" title="Turkic migration">Turkic migration</a></li></ul> <p><b>Organizations</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ASEAN_Free_Trade_Area" title="ASEAN Free Trade Area">ASEAN+3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership_for_East_Asia" title="Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia">Comprehensive Economic Partnership for East Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_Community" title="East Asian Community">East Asian Community</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership" title="Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership">Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asian_Fisheries_Development_Center" title="Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center">Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_East&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 October</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Department+of+Foreign+Affairs+and+Trade&rft.atitle=73+Broadcast+Speech&rft.date=1939-04-26&rft.aulast=Menzies&rft.aufirst=R.G.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfat.gov.au%2Fabout-us%2Fpublications%2Fhistorical-documents%2FPages%2Fvolume-02%2F73-broadcast-speech-by-mr-rg-menzies-prime-minister&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFar+East" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Continental regions as per <a href="/wiki/File:United_Nations_geographical_subregions_en.svg" title="File:United Nations geographical subregions en.svg">UN categorisations (map)</a>, except 12. Depending on definitions, various territories cited below (notes 6, 11–13, 15, 17–19, 21–23) may be in <a href="/wiki/Transcontinental_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcontinental nation">one or both of</a> Asia and Europe, Africa, or Oceania.<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Russia is a <a href="/wiki/List_of_transcontinental_countries" title="List of transcontinental countries">transcontinental country</a> located in Eastern Europe and North Asia, but is considered European historically, culturally, and ethnically, and the vast majority of its population (78%) lives within its <a href="/wiki/European_Russia" title="European Russia">European part</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Asian part only.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moscow is located in Europe.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The state is commonly known as simply "China", which is subsumed by the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">eponymous entity and civilisation (China)</a>. Figures given are for <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a> only, and do not include Hong Kong, Macau, and <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Includes PRC-administered area (<a href="/wiki/Aksai_Chin" title="Aksai Chin">Aksai Chin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Trans-Karakoram_Tract" title="Trans-Karakoram Tract">Trans-Karakoram Tract</a>, both territories claimed by India).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Information listed is for <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a> only. The <a href="/wiki/Special_administrative_regions_of_China" title="Special administrative regions of China">special administrative regions</a> (i.e. Hong Kong and Macau) and the island territories under the control of the Republic of China (which includes the islands of <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quemoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Quemoy">Quemoy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matsu_Islands" title="Matsu Islands">Matsu</a>) are excluded.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-langlaw-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-langlaw_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130724204951/http://www.gov.cn/english/laws/2005-09/19/content_64906.htm">"Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language (Order of the President No.37)"</a>. Chinese Government. 31 October 2000. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gov.cn/english/laws/2005-09/19/content_64906.htm">the original</a> on 24 July 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 June</span> 2013</span>. <q>For purposes of this Law, the standard spoken and written Chinese language means Putonghua (a common speech with pronunciation based on the Beijing dialect) and the standardized Chinese characters.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Law+of+the+People%27s+Republic+of+China+on+the+Standard+Spoken+and+Written+Chinese+Language+%28Order+of+the+President+No.37%29&rft.pub=Chinese+Government&rft.date=2000-10-31&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.cn%2Fenglish%2Flaws%2F2005-09%2F19%2Fcontent_64906.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFar+East" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">No specific variety of Chinese is official in the territory. Residents predominantly speak <a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Cantonese</a>, the <i>de facto</i> regional standard.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Japan's <a href="/wiki/National_Diet" title="National Diet">National Diet</a> have not officially enacted a law stating that the official language is Japanese.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Figures are for <a href="/wiki/Free_area_of_the_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Free area of the Republic of China">the area</a> under the <i>de facto</i> control of the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China</a> (ROC) government, commonly referred to as <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>. Claimed in whole by the PRC; see <a href="/wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan" title="Political status of Taiwan">political status of Taiwan</a>.<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Christmas_Island" title="Christmas Island">Christmas Island</a> is an external territory of Australia.<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">English does not have <a href="/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a> status in Christmas Island and in Australia, but it is the de facto language of communication in government.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Cocos_(Keeling)_Islands" title="Cocos (Keeling) Islands">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</a> are an external territory of Australia.<br /></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">English does not have <a href="/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a> status in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and in Australia, but it is the de facto language of communication in government.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Far_East&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Burghart, Sabine, Denis Park, and Liudmila Zakharova. "The DPRK's economic exchanges with Russia and the EU since 2000: an analysis of institutional effects and the case of the Russian Far East." <i>Asia Europe Journal</i> 18.3 (2020): 281–303. on North Korea</li> <li>Clyde, Paul Hibbert, and Burton F. Beers. <i>The Far East: A History of Western Impacts and Eastern Responses, 1830–1975</i> (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lccn_0133029687">online</a></li> <li>Crofts, Alfred. <i>A history of the Far East</i> (1958) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyoffareast0000crof">online</a></li> <li>Fairbank, John K., Edwin Reischauer, and Albert M. Craig. <i>East Asia: The great tradition</i> and <i>East Asia: The modern transformation</i> (1960) [2 vol 1960] online, famous textbook.</li> <li>Green, Michael. <i>By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783</i> (2019) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Providence-American-East-Relations/dp/0231180438/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Iriye, Akira. <i>After Imperialism; The Search for a New Order in the Far East 1921–1931.</i> (1965).</li> <li>Keay, John. <i>Empire's End: A History of the Far East from High Colonialism to Hong Kong</i> (Scribner, 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/empiresendhistor00keay">online</a></li> <li>Louis, Wm Roger. "The road to Singapore: British imperialism in the Far East, 1932–42." in <i>The fascist challenge and the policy of appeasement</i> (Routledge, 2021) pp. 352–388.</li> <li>Macnair, Harley F. & Donald Lach. <i>Modern Far Eastern International Relations.</i> (2nd ed 1955) 1950 edition online free, 780pp; focus on 1900–1950.</li> <li>Norman, Henry. <i>The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya</i> (1904) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/peoplesandpolit05normgoog">online</a></li> <li>Paine, S. C. M. <i>The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949</i> (2014) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Asia-1911-1949-S-Paine/dp/1107697476/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Ring, George C. <i>Religions of the Far East: Their History to the Present Day</i> (Kessinger Publishing, 2006).</li> <li>Solomon, Richard H., and Masataka Kosaka, eds. <i>The Soviet Far East military buildup: nuclear dilemmas and Asian security</i> (Routledge, 2021).</li> <li>Stephan, John J. <i>The Russian Far East</i> (Stanford University Press, 2022).</li> <li>Vinacke, Harold M. <i>A History of the Far East in Modern Times</i> (1964) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/download/dli.bengal.10689.12563/10689.12563_text.pdf">online free</a></li> <li>Vogel, Ezra. <i>China and Japan: Facing History</i> (2019) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/China-Japan-Ezra-F-Vogel/dp/0674916573/">excerpt</a></li> <li>Woodcock, George. <i>The British in the Far 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style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Chronology</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean_trade" title="Indian Ocean trade">Indian Ocean trade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_imperialism_in_Asia" title="Western imperialism in Asia">Imperialism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decolonisation_of_Asia" title="Decolonisation of Asia">Decolonisation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_in_Asia" title="Cold War in Asia">Cold War</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Asia" title="List of conflicts in Asia">Military conflicts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_date_of_formation#Asia" title="List of sovereign states by date of formation">Sovereignty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Asia" title="Geography of Asia">Geography</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_cities_in_Asia" title="Lists of cities in Asia">Cities</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Asia" title="List of metropolitan areas in Asia">metropolitan areas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Asia" title="List of tallest buildings in Asia">tallest buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_urban_agglomerations_in_Asia" title="List of urban agglomerations in Asia">urban agglomerations</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Asia" title="List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia">Countries and territories</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_population" title="List of Asian countries by population">by population</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Asia" title="Extreme points of Asia">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of islands of Asia">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lakes#Asia" title="List of lakes">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountain_ranges#Asia" title="List of mountain ranges">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Asia" title="List of rivers of Asia">Rivers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Geopolitics" title="Geopolitics">Geopolitical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_transcontinental_countries" title="List of transcontinental countries">Transcontinental regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asia%E2%80%93Pacific" title="Asia–Pacific">Asia–Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Europe,_the_Middle_East,_and_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Europe, the Middle East, and Africa">EMEA</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean world">Mediterranean world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MENASA" class="mw-redirect" title="MENASA">MENASA</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Middle_East" title="Greater Middle East">Greater Middle East</a>/<a href="/wiki/Middle_East_and_North_Africa" title="Middle East and North Africa">Middle East and North Africa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>/<a href="/wiki/Near_East" title="Near East">Near East</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Mediterranean" title="Indo-Mediterranean">Indo-Mediterranean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Pacific" title="Indo-Pacific">Indo-Pacific</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Ocean world">Indian Ocean world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Rim" title="Pacific Rim">Pacific Rim</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Asia" title="Pacific Asia">Pacific Asia</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Continent" title="Continent">Intracontinental regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia/Asia Minor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Arabia" title="South Arabia">South Arabia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Far East</a>/<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Asia" title="Pacific Asia">Pacific Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_China" title="Greater China">Greater China</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/China_proper" title="China proper">China proper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xinjiang" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia" title="Mainland Southeast Asia">Indochina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malay_world" title="Malay world">Malay world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_China" title="Northeast China">Northeast China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outer_Manchuria" title="Outer Manchuria">Outer Manchuria</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongol_heartland" title="Mongol heartland">Greater Mongolia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolia" title="Mongolia">Mongolia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Far_East" title="Russian Far East">Russian Far East</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Asia" title="Inner Asia">Inner Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Central_Asia" title="Greater Central Asia">Greater Central Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Iran" title="Greater Iran">Greater Iran</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Khorasan" title="Greater Khorasan">Greater Khorasan</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Global_Southeast" title="Global Southeast">Global Southeast</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_India" title="Greater India">Greater India</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>/<a href="/wiki/Syria_(region)" title="Syria (region)">Syria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Levant" title="Southern Levant">Southern Levant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siberia" title="Siberia">Siberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus" title="South Caucasus">South Caucasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkestan" title="Turkestan">Turkestan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Turkestan" title="Afghan Turkestan">Afghan Turkestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Turkestan" title="Chinese Turkestan">Chinese Turkestan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Turkestan" title="Russian Turkestan">Russian Turkestan</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Subregion#Asia" title="Subregion">Continental subregions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_Central_Asia" title="Soviet Central Asia">Soviet Central Asia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Asia" title="Northeast Asia">Northeast Asia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Asia" title="North Asia">North Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_South_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Regions of South Asia">Subregions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia" title="Mainland Southeast Asia">Mainland Southeast Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maritime_Southeast_Asia" title="Maritime Southeast Asia">Maritime Southeast Asia</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Asia" title="West Asia">West Asia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_geography" title="Cultural geography">Cultural</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Austronesian_peoples" title="Austronesian peoples">Austronesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greater_India" title="Greater India">Indosphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_cultural_sphere" class="mw-redirect" title="East Asian cultural sphere">Sinosphere</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nanyang_(region)" title="Nanyang (region)">Nanyang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_and_southern_China" title="Northern and southern China">Northern and southern China</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Physical_geography" title="Physical geography">Physical</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Supercontinent" title="Supercontinent">Supercontinents</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afro-Eurasia" title="Afro-Eurasia">Afro-Eurasia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afro-Asia" title="Afro-Asia">Afro-Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurasia" title="Eurasia">Eurasia</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Continent#Subcontinents" title="Continent">Subcontinents</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian subcontinent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian subcontinent</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Plateau" title="Plateau">Plateaus</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_plateau" title="Anatolian plateau">Anatolian plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deccan_Plateau" title="Deccan Plateau">Deccan Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_plateau" title="Iranian plateau">Iranian plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Plateau" title="Mongolian Plateau">Mongolian Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Plateau" title="Tibetan Plateau">Tibetan Plateau</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Peninsula" title="Peninsula">Peninsulas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolian Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chukchi_Peninsula" title="Chukchi Peninsula">Chukchi Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_subcontinent" title="Indian subcontinent">Indian Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mainland_Southeast_Asia" title="Mainland Southeast Asia">Indochinese Peninsula</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malay_Peninsula" title="Malay Peninsula">Malay Peninsula</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korean Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leizhou_Peninsula" title="Leizhou Peninsula">Leizhou Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liaodong_Peninsula" title="Liaodong Peninsula">Liaodong Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shandong_Peninsula" title="Shandong Peninsula">Shandong Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinai_Peninsula" title="Sinai Peninsula">Sinai Peninsula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsugaru_Peninsula" title="Tsugaru Peninsula">Tsugaru Peninsula</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">Archipelagos</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Archipelago" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese Archipelago">Japanese Archipelago</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ryukyu_Islands" title="Ryukyu Islands">Ryukyu Islands</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malay_Archipelago" title="Malay Archipelago">Malay Archipelago</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Indonesia" title="List of islands of Indonesia">Indonesian Archipelago</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maluku_Islands" title="Maluku Islands">Maluku Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunda_Islands" title="Sunda Islands">Sunda Islands</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Sunda_Islands" title="Greater Sunda Islands">Greater Sunda Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesser_Sunda_Islands" title="Lesser Sunda Islands">Lesser Sunda Islands</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Philippines" title="List of islands of the Philippines">Philippine Archipelago</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Visayas" title="Visayas">Visayan Islands</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mergui_Archipelago" title="Mergui Archipelago">Mergui Archipelago</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Biogeography" title="Biogeography">Biogeographic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Asia_(WGSRPD)" title="Eastern Asia (WGSRPD)">Eastern Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Pacific" title="Indo-Pacific">Indo-Pacific</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malesia" title="Malesia">Malesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tropical_Asia" title="Tropical Asia">Tropical Asia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Asia" title="Politics of Asia">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Heads_of_government_in_Asia" title="Category:Heads of government in Asia">Heads of government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Heads_of_state_in_Asia" title="Category:Heads of state in Asia">Heads of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Elections_in_Asia" title="Category:Elections in Asia">Elections</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_parties_in_Asia" title="Category:Political parties in Asia">political parties</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democracy_in_Asia" title="Democracy in Asia">Democracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Asia" title="Human rights in Asia">Human rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legal_systems_in_Asia" title="Legal systems in Asia">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Military_in_Asia" title="Category:Military in Asia">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-Asianism" title="Pan-Asianism">Pan-Asianism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Intergovernmental</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asia_Cooperation_Dialogue" title="Asia Cooperation Dialogue">Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations" class="mw-redirect" title="Association of Southeast Asian Nations">Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal_Initiative_for_Multi-Sectoral_Technical_and_Economic_Cooperation" class="mw-redirect" title="Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation">Bay of Bengal Initiative (BIMSTEC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_Cooperation_Organization" title="Economic Cooperation Organization">Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Economic_Union" title="Eurasian Economic Union">Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization" title="Collective Security Treaty Organization">Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cooperation_Council_for_the_Arab_States_of_the_Gulf" class="mw-redirect" title="Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf">Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (CCASG / GCC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mekong%E2%80%93Ganga_Cooperation" title="Mekong–Ganga Cooperation">Mekong–Ganga Cooperation (MGC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership" title="Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership">Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation" title="South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation">South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation" title="Shanghai Cooperation Organisation">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Asia" title="Economy of Asia">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_average_wage" title="List of Asian countries by average wage">Countries by average wage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Asian_and_Pacific_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP)">Countries by GDP (PPP)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Asia_and_Oceania_by_Human_Development_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="List of sovereign states in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index">Countries by HDI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_currencies_in_Asia" title="List of currencies in Asia">Currencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges#Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of stock exchanges">Stock exchanges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Asia" title="Science and technology in Asia">Technology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Asia" title="Renewable energy in Asia">renewable energy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Transport_in_Asia" title="Category:Transport in Asia">Transport</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Asia" title="List of the busiest airports in Asia">airports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="High-speed rail in Asia">high-speed rail</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;">Markets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_East_Asian_and_Hong_Kong_property_markets" title="South East Asian and Hong Kong property markets">Property markets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Asia" title="Demographics of Asia">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Asia" title="Education in Asia">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etiquette_in_Asia" title="Etiquette in Asia">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Health_in_Asia" title="Category:Health in Asia">Health</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Asia" title="Languages of Asia">Languages</a></li> <li><a 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