Northeast Asia

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.

[2][3][4] The Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia defines the region as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Russia.

[5] 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.

Northeast Asia is mainly covered by temperate forest, taiga, and the Eurasian Steppe, while tundra is found in the region's far north.

Map with parts of the countries and territories that make up the region of Northeast Asia. Here, coastal Northeast Asia is shown.
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