Population & Places
his city is one of the two in China with over 20 million people and is a major economic center on the east coast.
What is Shanghai?
This city is the largest urban area in Japan and a major global city.
What is Tokyo?
East Asian economies often grow by focusing on producing goods for other countries; this strategy is called this.
What is export-led growth?
This East Asian religion is native to Japan and often connected with rituals at shrines.
What is Shinto?
This resource found in China, Mongolia, and North Korea is used for electricity and industry but causes air pollution when burned.
What is coal?
Each red dot on a density map represents this many people.
What is 100,000 people?
A major corridor in Japan that contains about three-quarters of the country's population and includes cities like Tokyo and Osaka.
What is the Tokaido corridor?
This East Asian economy is advanced, technology-driven, and faces workforce challenges from an aging population.
What is Japan?
East Asian religious life often mixes beliefs from Buddhism, Daoism, and this other major religion.
What is Christianity?
This natural hazard threatens island nations like Japan and Taiwan.
What are earthquakes?
This high-elevation region in China is very sparsely populated.
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
This island has mountains inside and most people live in coastal cities like Taipei.
What is Taiwan?
This East Asian country has a market-oriented economy, strong investment in business, and a highly ranked education system.
What is South Korea?
This island group's indigenous people include the Ainu.
What is Japan?
This challenge involves not having enough water in some regions of China, affecting farming and cities.
What is water shortages or unequal water distribution?
This country in East Asia is known for vast steppes and a large nomadic population.
What is Mongolia?
This Japanese city is the largest urban area in the country and a major global city.
What is Tokyo?
This island economy is a major exporter of electronics and has advanced industries.
What is Taiwan?
The majority ethnic group in China, who mostly live in eastern China.
Who are the Han?
This type of power uses water stored behind a dam passing through turbines to create electricity, important in China and North Korea.
What is hydroelectric power?
This corridor in Japan contains about three-quarters of the country's population (Tokyo to Osaka).
What is the Tokaido corridor?
A common daily problem in Tokyo subways caused by very high population density.
What is subway crowding?
This East Asian country has a command economy with low productivity, limited foreign trade, and many international sanctions.
What is North Korea?
This religion, practiced in East Asia, includes teachings of Siddhartha Gautama and has a symbol that sometimes appears as a wheel.
What is Buddhism?
Name two major environmental problems in East Asia caused by rapid industrial growth and heavy coal use.
What are air pollution and water pollution?