FACTOID #151: The five countries with the highest coffee consumption are also the five countries whose citizens trust one another the most. Coincidence? Probably.
The following countries or regions are sometimes considered part of East Asia. Political point of view is an important factor contributing to one's views on how the following countries or regions should be categorized:
More than 1,500 million people, or about 40 per cent of all Asians and a quarter of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. The region is one of the world's most crowded places. The population density of East Asia, 230 per kmē, is over five times the world average.
The history of East Asia, as well as parts of Southeast Asia, is heavily influenced by and intertwined with that of China. For example, all East Asian countries have used Chinese characters at some point in their history. The regions of China, Japan, and Korea, which have historically related writing systems, are sometimes collectively referred to as CJK (or CJKV with the inclusion of Vietnam).
FarEast is an inexact term often used for EastAsia, South Asia and Southeast Asia combined, sometimes including also the easternmost territories of Russia, i.e., the Russian FarEast, and the western Pacific Ocean region.
FarEast is sometimes used synonymously with EastAsia, which may be defined in geographic or cultural terms to Russia's extreme northeast, coastal China, Taiwan, Japan, both north and south Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
EastAsia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, have a close cultural commonality, including religious and philosophical systems, and arts, for instance Indian literature, mythology, religion and art has influenced the region.
A map of Asiaeast of the Ganges from an early German edition of Ptolemy, with metal-type lettering within a coloured trapezoid border, with a Latin-text on verso with a coloured capital.
The map displays all the features that made this period the golden age of decorative cartography: the titles, in Latin and Dutch, are within a strapwork cartouche, as are the scales; in the sea are two finely-engraved compass roses, sea-monsters and galleons; filling the gaps in China are an elephant, camel, giraffe and rhinoceros.
The FarEast from the Maldives to Formosa and the Philippines, with the north coastline of Australia.
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