The People’s Republic of China (PRC), commonly known as China or mainland China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world’s population. It is a socialist republic ruled by the Communist Party of China under a single-party system [...]
East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km², or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia. In some contexts, [...]
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities (see below), also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east. It is surrounded (clockwise, from west to east) by Western Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Asia, Southeastern Asia and [...]