East Asia is a sub region of Asia. It covers
about 6,640,000 km², or 15 percent of the continent. More
than 1,500 million people, or about 40 per cent of all Asians and
a quarter of all the people in the world, live in East Asia. The
region is one of the world's most crowded places. The population
density of East Asia, 230 per km², is over five times the
world average.