Northeast Asia

English

Proper noun

Northeast Asia

1. A region of Asia, bordering the west coast of the northern Pacific. A region of the world composed of the Koreas, mainland Japan archipelago, northern China. Sometimes including variously Mongolia, Outer Manchuria, Sakhalin, the Kurils, Kamchatka, the whole of the Russian Far East, the whole of the People's Republic of China, the whole of Japan.

Derived terms

• Northeast Asian (n./adj.)

 

Related terms

• Asia
• Central Asia
• East Asia
• Eurasia
• North Asia
• Northwest Asia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Southwest Asia
• West Asia

 

Translations

a region of Asia

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東北亞／东北亚 (dung¹ bak¹ aa³)

  Hokkien: 東北亞／东北亚 (Tang-pak-a)

  Mandarin: 東北亞／东北亚 (zh) (Dōngběiyà, Dōngběiyǎ)

• Vietnamese: Đông Bắc Á (vi) (東北亞)