East Asia Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
eastern region of Asia
About East Asia
East Asia, also popularly known as "the Far East" (especially when compared with the other "East", theMiddle East) is the core of what used to be known in the West asThe Orient, supposedly a mysterious land inhabited by a race of inscrutable tea-sipping Orientals. Behind the caricature, though, is a uniting factor in the form ofChinese influence: China, as by far the largest and, historically, the most technologically and societally advanced culture in the region, has given its writing system (Chinese characters), religion (Mahayana Buddhism) and philosophy (Confucianism) to all the countries in East Asia. However, underneath these superficial similarities lie a vast range of differences. The geography alone covers the gamut, from the arid steppes ofMongoliaand the vast deserts ofnorthwest
East Asia Travel Guide Sections
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