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| subdivision_type1 = Capital cities | subdivision_name1 = | subdivision_type2 = Major cities | subdivision_name2 = | blank_name_sec1 = Languages and language families | blank_info_sec1 = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = 〔The area figure is based on the combined areas of China (including Hong Kong, Macau, Aksai Chin, and Trans-Karakoram Tract), Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan as listed at List of countries and outlying territories by total area.〕 | area_note = | area_water_percent = | area_total_km2 = 11839074 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | length_km = | width_km = | dimensions_footnotes = | population_footnotes = 〔The population figure is the combined populations of China (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau), Japan , North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan as listed at List of countries by population (last updated Feb 22, 2011).〕 | population_total = 1,601,709,712 | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | timezone1 = | utc_offset1 = | timezone1_DST = | utc_offset1_DST = }} East Asia or Eastern Asia is the eastern subregion of the Eurasian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or cultural〔(Columbia University - "East Asian cultural sphere" ) "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system."〕 terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about , or about 28% of the Asian continent, about 15% bigger than the area of Europe. More than 1.5 billion people, about 38% of the population of Asia and 22% or over one fifth of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. The region is one of the world's most populated places, with a population density of , being about three times the world average of , although Mongolia has the lowest population density of a sovereign state. Using the UN subregion definitions, East Asia ranks second in population only to Southern Asia. Historically, many societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script. Sometimes Northeast Asia is used to denote Japan and Korea.〔"(Northeast Asia )." ''Council on Foreign Relations''. Retrieved on August 10, 2009.〕 Major religions include Buddhism (mostly Mahayana), Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion in China and Taiwan, Shinto in Japan, Shamanism in Korea, Mongolia and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia,〔Chongho Kim, "Korean Shamanism", 2003 Ashgate Publishing〕〔Andreas Anangguru Yewangoe, "Theologia crucis in Asia", 1987 Rodopi〕 and recently Christianity in South Korea. The Chinese Calendar is the root from which many other East Asian calendars are derived. == History == (詳細はQin and the Han Dynasties. There are records of tributes sent overseas from the early kingdoms of Korea and Japan. There were also considerable levels of cultural and religious exchange between the Chinese and other regional Dynasties and Kingdoms. As connections began to strengthen with the Western world, China's power began to diminish. Around the same time, Japan solidified itself as a nation state. Throughout WWII, Korea, Taiwan, Eastern China, and Vietnam fell under Japanese control. Following Japan's defeat in the war, the Korean peninsula became independent, while Taiwan became part of the Republic of China. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Asia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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