Northeast Asia

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Northeast Asia or Northeastern Asia is a geographical subregion of Asia. Its northeastern landmass and islands are bounded by the North Pacific Ocean.

The term Northeast Asia was popularized during the 1930s by American historian and political scientist Robert Kerner. Under Kerner's definition, "Northeast Asia" includes the Japanese Archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, the Mongolian Plateau, the Northeast China Plain, and the mountainous regions of the Russian Far East, stretching from the Lena River in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.{{sfn|Narangoa|2014|p=2}}

Definitions

The definition of Northeast Asia is not static but often changes according to the context in which it is discussed.

The subregion of Northeast Asia comprises China, Japan, and Korea, usually also including Mongolia and Siberia. Parts or the whole of northern China are also frequently included in sources."[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-technology-patents-idUSTRE7184CN20110209 Northeast Asia dominates patent filing growth]." Retrieved on August 8, 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/schott1001-1.pdf|url-status=dead|last1=Schott|first1=Jeffrey J.|first2=Ben|last2=Goodrich|title=Economic Integration in Northeast Asia|publisher=Peterson Institute for International Economics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190723/http://www.iie.com/publications/papers/schott1001-1.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|access-date=August 8, 2011}}Gilbet Rozman (2004), Northeast asia's stunted regionalism: bilateral distrust in the shadow of globalization. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–4 The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia defines the region as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Russia.{{cite book|title=Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia: Partners in the 21st Century|author=Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1999|page=248}}

Prominent cities in this area include Busan, Changchun, Dalian, Harbin, Hiroshima, Incheon, Khabarovsk, Kitakyushu, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Osaka, Pyongyang, Sapporo, Seoul, Shenyang, Tokyo, Ulaanbaatar, Vladivostok, and Yokohama.

Economy

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Northeast Asia is one of the most important economic regions of the world, accounting for 25.3% of the world's nominal GDP in 2019, which is slightly larger than the United States. It is also one of the major political centers and has significant influence on international relations. By the end of the 1990s, Northeast Asia had a share of 12% of the global energy consumption, with a strong increasing trend. By 2030, the major economic growth in the region is expected to double or triple this share.

Biogeography

In biogeography, Northeast Asia generally refers roughly to the area spanning the Japanese Archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, Northeast China, and the Russian Far East between Lake Baikal in southern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean.

Northeast Asia is mainly covered by temperate forest, taiga, and the Eurasian Steppe, while tundra is found in the region's far north. Summer and winter temperatures are highly contrasted. It is also a mountainous area.

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{{Cite book|first=Li|last=Narangoa|title=Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia, 1590-2010: Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia|year=2014|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=9780231160704}}

==External links==

[https://web.archive.org/web/20100204114705/http://www.brookings.edu/cnaps.aspx Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies]—Brookings Institution
Kimura, Takeatsu – [https://books.google.com/books?id=ApGfXFYxzRoC&q=%22Northeast+Asia%22 International Collation of Traditional and Folk Medicine] - Northeast Asia - UNESCO

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