Category Archives: Eastern Asia

Fishing and Forestry in China

Forestry in China China has relatively little forest. Nevertheless, the country is one of the world’s largest producers of forest products. According to official figures (2003), the forest covers 16.6% of the area. In the course of time, large forest areas have been destroyed by predation, and modern forest management is still in short supply.… Read More »

Taiwan Population and Language

Taiwan is very densely populated, but Population growth has basically stopped. Combined with increased life expectancy, this has led to an unusually fast aging population. The decline in childbirth is believed to be due to Taiwanese marrying later and waiting to give birth to children, while the number of divorces has also increased in recent… Read More »

South Korea Population and Language

South Korea is one of the world’s most urbanized countries and more than half the population lives in million cities. South Korea is also one of the world’s most densely populated countries. But today, forecasts show that within a few years the population will begin to decline in numbers. South Koreans give birth to fewer… Read More »

North Korea Population and Language

The population is almost exclusively Koreans, descended from original Mongolian peoples on the peninsula. There is a small Chinese minority. The residents are concentrated in the coastal areas and the plains in the southwest. North Korea is far less populated than South Korea, which has twice the population. COUNTRYAAH.COM: Key populations estimated size and data… Read More »

Mongolia Population and Language

The population of Mongolia is fairly uniform. Nearly 90 percent of the residents are Mongols (Chalcha Mongols). The rest of the population can be divided into two groups: other Mongolian-speaking peoples (such as dead-woods, burjats, bajad and dariganga) as well as Turkish-speaking peoples, such as Kazakhs and Tuvinians. The latter live in the western part… Read More »

Japan Population and Language

Japan ranks high on the list of countries in the world that have the most residents. But birth rates have been declining for a long time, and 2005 saw a small population decline for the first time in peacetime. If the number of residents continues to decline, according to the UN’s latest forecast, it may… Read More »

East Timor Population and Language

In East Timor, natural Population growth is high. About four in ten residents are under 15 years of age. Ethnic diversity is great. Most residents belong to some Austronesian or Papuan people. The number of residents has varied considerably over the past 40 years. Before the Indonesian invasion of 1975 (see Modern History), there were… Read More »

China Population and Language

In just under half a century, China has more than doubled its population. China is today the world’s most populous state with close to 1.4 billion residents – about one-fifth of the world’s population is Chinese. The long-standing and much-debated one-child policy has now ceased and it is permissible to have two children. Population pressure… Read More »

Armenia Population and Language

Since independence in 1991, Armenia has been characterized by emigration caused by poverty and the number of Armenians is steadily decreasing. During the Soviet era (1920–1991), Armenia was little affected by the migrations that followed deportations and large-scale industrialization in other parts of the Soviet Union. However, many, perhaps up to one million of the… Read More »

China’s Foreign Trade

China played until the reform period started a modest role in world trade. However, since 1978, the country has evolved to become a very important global player, and is one of the world’s leading trading nations. After 15 years of negotiations, China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. In the period up to… Read More »

Asian Countries

The countries of Asia form the largest and most populous continent in the world. These Asian countries are distributed in six regions full of particularities. The countries of Asia form the largest continent in terms of territory and are home to the largest number of inhabitants among the continents. Together, these countries have a territory… Read More »

Transport in China

China’s infrastructure was greatly expanded during the reform period of the 1980s. Nevertheless, the infrastructure must still be regarded as poorly developed, and it therefore acts as a brake on economic development. The main weaknesses are the energy grid, the transport network and the telecommunications. The Nanpu Bridge over Huangpu connects the Pudong district with… Read More »

China

China is a republic in East Asia. China borders North Korea in the north- east, Russia and Mongolia in the north, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bhutan in the northwest and west, and Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam in the southwest. China is the world’s most populous country, and the world’s third largest… Read More »

Literature of China

China’s literary history can roughly be divided into the following ten eras: 1) From the Shang Dynasty (1600s to about 1025 BCE), we have primarily simple inscriptions in bones and turtle shells used in divination ceremonies (see jiaguwen ). 2) During the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn period (c. 1025–481 BCE), important… Read More »

Economy in Asia

Asia can be divided into several geographically and culturally different parts. To the west lies the oil-rich Middle East, in the interior of the continent we find mountainous Central Asia, and further east are South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. Based on Abbreviationfinder.org, the Pacific region and Oceania are often considered to be Asia, since the links here are strong. Asia… Read More »

Japanese Culture

Japan exhibits a multifaceted culture with ancient traditions. Although rooted in Chinese culture, geographical distance has enabled Japan to construct a differentiated cultural model and whose marks persist even with the people’s dynamic characteristic of adapting to technological developments. Religion The Japanese have religious syncretism as their mark. His main beliefs have roots in Shinto and Buddhism,… Read More »

Japanese Immigration

The Japanese immigration in Brazil began on June 18, 1908 with the arrival of the first Japanese ship, Kasato Maru, in the port of Santos. Background In the late nineteenth century, with the Meiji Revolution (1868), Japan opened to the world and changed its social organization. In this way, the taxes levied on the peasants increased, forcing thousands… Read More »

Japan Economy

Japan is the third largest economy in the world, falling behind China in second place and the United States in first. In the 1980s and 1990s, however, Japan occupied the rank of second richest nation in the world, with the USA in first place. Among the main factors that justify Japanese economic performance relative to other… Read More »

What are the Types of Tourism?

There are travelers who like to go to the beach. Others prefer cultural trips. Others want adventure. For all of them, there is a right kind of tourism. Meet them here! Tourism is an economic activity that goes through many variations and innovations, which structure offers according to demand. The different profiles of tourists, with… Read More »