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This guide is:

• for faculty and students
• for resources at University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries
• about East Asian culture and literature
• includes both print and electronic sources 
• selective in nature and not intended to be a comprehensive list on the subject

East Asia is a sub-region of Asia. That can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geo-politically, it covers about 12,000,000 km² (4,600,000 sq mi), or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe. The UN sub-region of East Asia and other common definitions of East Asia contain the entirely of the People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan,) Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Mongolia.