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East Asia

[ eest ey-zhuh, ey-shuh ]

noun

  1. the countries and land area of easternmost Asia, most commonly classified as comprising China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao.


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Other Words From

  • East A·sian adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of East Asia1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

In East Asia, these variants might have hurt someone’s ability to fight other illnesses.

In East Asia, it might have been an evolutionary disadvantage when dealing with other illnesses, leading to its decline.

The coronavirus pandemic could push 38 million people into poverty across East Asia and the Pacific as the region’s collective economy grows at its slowest pace in 50 years, according to the World Bank.

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The other side is you look at East Asia, Singapore, Korea, and they are doing so much in terms of jumping ahead.

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The organization has plans to establish club competitions in both West Asia and East Asia, says Hagop Khajirian, FIBA’s executive director for Asia.

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Somebody must have gotten a little dizzy during his 2012 “Pivot to East Asia.”

Vice President Joe Biden is traveling to China Tuesday as part of a tour of East Asia.

While Julie Chen may embody East Asia's new beauty ideal, Davuluri does not appear to do the same for South Asia.

The ultradense cities of East Asia—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Seoul—have among the lowest fertility rates on the planet.

Geography dictated that East Asia had fewer potentially domesticable plants and animals.

In our loading of East Asia transports, it required one to one and one-half hours to load one battalion.

The sending of an expedition to East Asia affords an interesting example of what can be done.

Our excellent knowledge of East Asia has given us the necessary technical preparation in the way of equipment.

It requires a good deal of time to procure the equipment for an expedition to East Asia.

The thirty horses on the transport must be well taken care of to reach East Asia.

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