檢視东亚的原始碼

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'''东亚'''(''' East Asia''' )，泛指[[亚洲]]东部，具有[[地理]]<ref name=encarta-east-asia>{{cite web |url = http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861672714/East_Asia.html |title = East Asia |accessdate = 2008-01-12 |work = [[Encarta]] |publisher = Microsoft |quote = the countries and regions of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mongolia, South Korea, North Korea and Japan. |archiveurl = https://www.webcitation.org/5kwbU9Hqq?url=http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861672714/East_Asia.html |archivedate=2009-10-31 |deadurl=yes |df=}}</ref>和[[文化]]<ref name=easia-columbia>[http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm Columbia University – "East Asian cultural sphere"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227154316/http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/webcourse/key_points/kp_5.htm |date=2008-02-27}} "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system."</ref>层面上的双重意义<ref name="Prescott 2015">{{Cite book |title = East Asia in the World: An Introduction |last=Prescott |first= Anne |publisher=Routledge |year=2015 |isbn=978-0765643223}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Modern East Asia: An Introductory History |last=Miller |first=David Y. |publisher=Routledge |year=2007 |isbn=978-0765618221 |pages=xxi–xxiv}}</ref>。东亚地区通常包括[[中国大陆]]、[[日本列岛]]、[[台湾岛]]、[[朝鲜半岛]]、[[琉球群岛]]和[[蒙古高原]]等地<ref name="encarta-east-asia"/><ref name="Prescott 2015"/><ref name="Kort 2005 7">{{cite book |title=The Handbook Of East Asia |last=Kort |first=Michael |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |year=2005 |isbn=978-0761326724 |page=7 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofeastas0000kort }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www1.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/world/asia/east_asia/default.htm |title=Country Profiles: East Asia |website=Children and Armed Conflict Unit at the University of Essex}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=East Asia |url = https://link.springer.com/journal/12140 |publisher=Springer Netherlands}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://asiasociety.org/china-korea-and-japan-forgiveness-and-mourning |title=China, Korea and Japan: Forgiveness and Mourning |last=Seybolt |first= Peter J. |website=Center for Asian Studies |publisher=Center for Asian Studies}}</ref><ref name="Asian History Module Learning">{{cite book |title=Asian History Module Learning |publisher=Rex Bookstore Inc. |year= 2002 |isbn=978-9712331244 |page=186}}</ref><ref name="Salkind 2008 56">{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology |last=Salkind |first=Neil J. |publisher=Sage Publications |year=2008 |isbn = 978-1412916882 |page=56}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century |last=Holcombe |first= Charles |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0521731645 |page=3}}</ref>，面积约1170万平方千米<ref>{{cite book|author1=王志艳|title=地理百科知识博览·我的第一本百科书|date=2013|publisher=天津人民出版社|isbn=7201079670|chapter=亚洲主要地理分区}}</ref><ref name = "台湾的选择：地缘悲情之子，还是领先东亚转大人_2017"> {{ cite web | title = 台湾的选择：地缘悲情之子，还是领先东亚转大人 | url = https://opinion.udn.com/opinion/story/6067/2736919 | publisher = 联合报 | author = 范畴 | language = zh-tw | date = 2017-10-03 }} </ref>。东亚地区居住有16亿人口，占世界人口的22%，亦是世界上人口稠密的地区之一，人口密度达到133人每平方千米，约是世界平均水平的三倍，[[北京]]、[[香港]]、[[首尔]]、[[上海]]、[[台北]]和[[东京]]等人口稠密的城市皆位于东亚。

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东亚地区是[[文明摇篮]]，[[黄河]]和[[长江]]流域较早产生人口稠密的农业社会，孕育出古老的[[中华文明]]<ref>{{cite book |title = Towards a Sustainable Asia: The Cultural Perspectives |author = Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |isbn= 978-3642166686 |page=17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title = Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia: An Encyclopedia |last= Minahan |first= James B. |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2014 |isbn=978-1610690171 |pages = xx–xxvi}}</ref>。中华文化在东亚具有巨大影响力<ref>{{Cite book |title = Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy: The Connective Mindshift |last= Zaharna |first= R.S. |last2=Arsenault |first2= Amelia |last3=Fisher |first3= Ali |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn=978-0415636070 |edition=1st |publication-date = 2013-05-01 |page=93}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title = A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century |last= Holcombe |first=Charles |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-1107544895 |page=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=A Companion to Chinese History |last=Szonyi |first=Michael |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2017 |isbn=978-1118624609 |page=90}}</ref>，极大影响[[日本文化|日本]]、[[朝鲜文化|韩国]]和[[越南文化|越南]]文化，形成涵盖东亚的[[汉字文化圈|东亚文化圈]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/kpct/ct_china.htm|title=Central Themes for a Unit on China {{!}} Central Themes and Key Points {{!}} Asia for Educators {{!}} Columbia University|website=afe.easia.columbia.edu|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>。源于[[文言|古中文]]的词语改变了[[日文]]、[[韩文]]和[[越南文]]的样貌；源自华夏的[[农历]]和[[汉字]]曾通行于东亚<ref name="Goscha 2016">{{Cite book |title=The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam: A History |last= Goscha |first= Christopher |publisher= Allen Lane |year=2016 |isbn= 978-1846143106}}</ref><ref name="Kang 2012 33–34">{{cite book |title=East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute |last=Kang |first=David C. |publisher=Columbia University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0231153195 |pages=33–34}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America | publisher=Penguin Press HC |author1 = Amy Chua |author2 = Jed Rubenfeld | year=2014 |page=122 |isbn=978-1594205460}}</ref><ref name="Walker 2012 2">{{cite book |title=East Asia: A New History |last=Walker |first=Hugh Dyson |publisher=AuthorHouse |year=2012 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty |last=Lewis |first=Mark Edward |publisher=Belknap Press |year=2012 |isbn= 978-0674064010 |publication-date=April 9, 2012 |page=156}}</ref><ref name="Reischauer">Edwin O. Reischauer, "The Sinic World in Perspective," ''Foreign Affairs ''52.2 (January 1974): 341—348. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20038053 JSTOR]</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Asia Civilizations: Ancient to 1800 AD |last= Lim |first= SK |publisher=ASIAPAC |isbn=978-9812295941 |page=89|date= 2011-11-01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Redesigning Asian Business: In the Aftermath of Crisis |last= Richter |first=Frank-Jurgen |publisher=Quorum Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-1567205251 |page=15}}</ref><ref name="Hazen 2005 1">{{cite book |title=Building Area Studies Collections |last= Hazen |first= Dan |last2=Spohrer |first2=James H. |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz |year=2005 |isbn=978-3447055123 |publication-date = 2005-12-31 |page=1}}</ref>。全东亚流行的主要[[宗教]]为[[佛教]]，华夏古典的[[儒家]]思想理念亦深刻影响东亚人的传统观念<ref name="Salkind 2008 56"/>。

东亚部份国家在现代化转型中成功，令东亚在世界的政治和经济重要性不断提升。[[日本]]最早成功实行[[西方化]]，实现国力大幅增长；[[韩国]]、[[台湾]]和[[香港]]在20世纪60至90年代实现经济腾飞，为[[亚洲四小龙]]之三。

[[中华人民共和国经济|中国大陆]]自20世纪末起亦发展迅速，中华人民共和国如今已被视为[[潜在超级大国]]之一。在政治和经济上有巨大影响力。