East Asia consists of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. To a lesser extent it does also take into consideration Hong Kong and Macau as proxies to China.
Fact on how the word Asia came to be
c. 1300, from Latin Asia, from Greek Asia, speculated to be from Akkadian asu "to go out, to rise," in reference to the sun, thus "the land of the sunrise." Used by the early Greeks of what later was known as Asia Minor; by Pliny of the whole continent.
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