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The term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance, and politics. Despite the heterogeneity of the regions' economies, most individual ... Asia-Pacific FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch GeographicandpoliticalregioninAsiaandOceaniaAsia-Pacific(APAC[1])isthepartoftheworldnearthewesternPacificOcean.TheAsia-Pacificregionvariesinareadependingoncontext,butitgenerallyincludesEastAsia,Oceania,theRussianFarEast,SouthAsia,andSoutheastAsia. Contents 1Definition 2History 3Componentareas 3.1Asia 3.2Oceania 4Maincountriesandterritoriesdata 5Seealso 6References 7Externallinks Definition[edit] ThetermmayincludecountriesintheAmericaswhichareonthecoastoftheEasternPacificOcean;theAsia-PacificEconomicCooperation,forexample,includesCanada,Chile,Mexico,PeruandtheUnitedStates.Alternatively,thetermsometimescomprisesallofAsiaandAustralasiaaswellasPacificislandnations(Asia-PacificandAustraliancontinent)—forexample,whendividingtheworldintolargeregionsforcommercialpurposes(e.g.,intotheAmericas/LAC,EMEAandAsia-Pacific).[2]WesternAsiaandCentralAsiaarealmostneverincluded. Onthewhole,thereisnoclear-cutdefinitionof"Asia-Pacific",andtheregionsincludedchangedependingonthecontext.Thetermhasbecomepopularsincethelate1980sincommerce,finance,andpolitics.Despitetheheterogeneityoftheregions'economies,mostindividualnationswithinthezoneareemergingmarketsexperiencingrapidgrowth(comparetheacronymAPEJ,"Asia-PacificexcludingJapan").[3] History[edit] Thissectionneedsexpansion.Youcanhelpbyaddingtoit.(January2022) Componentareas[edit] TheAsia-Pacificregiongenerallyincludes: Asia[edit] EastAsia  China  HongKong(China)  Japan  Macau(China)  Mongolia  NorthKorea  SouthKorea  Taiwan NorthAsia RussianFarEast(Russia) SouthAsia  Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  BritishIndianOceanTerritory(UnitedKingdom)  India  Maldives    Nepal  Pakistan  SriLanka SoutheastAsia  Brunei  Cambodia  ChristmasIsland(Australia)  Cocos(Keeling)Islands(Australia)  Indonesia(alsopartofMelanesia)  Laos  Malaysia  Myanmar  Philippines  Singapore  Thailand  Timor-Leste  Vietnam Oceania[edit] Australasia  Australia  AshmoreandCartierIslands  CoralSeaIslands  HeardIslandandMcDonaldIslands  NewZealand(alsopartofPolynesia) Melanesia  Fiji  NewCaledonia(France)  PapuaNewGuinea  SolomonIslands  Vanuatu WesternNewGuinea(Indonesia) Micronesia  Guam(UnitedStates)  Kiribati  MarshallIslands  Micronesia,FederatedStatesof  Nauru  NorthernMarianaIslands(UnitedStates)  Palau  WakeIsland(UnitedStates) Polynesia  AmericanSamoa(UnitedStates)  CookIslands(NewZealand)  EasterIsland(Chile)  FrenchPolynesia(France)  Hawaii(UnitedStates)  Niue(NewZealand)  NorfolkIsland(Australia)  PitcairnIslands(UnitedKingdom) SalasyGómezIsland(Chile)  Samoa  Tokelau(NewZealand)  Tonga  Tuvalu  WallisandFutuna(France) Maincountriesandterritoriesdata[edit] Country/Territory Area(km2) Population Pop.density(/km2) GDPmillionsofUSD(2018) GDPpercapitaUSD(2017)[4] Capital  Afghanistan 652,230 38,042,000 58.3 19,900 577 Kabul  AmericanSamoa 199 55,689 259 711 11,398.8 PagoPago  Australia 7,692,024 25,553,000 2.8 1,500,000 59,655 Canberra  Bangladesh 147,570 156,594,962 1,033.5 287,630 1,359 Dhaka  Bhutan 38,394 742,737 18.0 6,384 2,804 Thimphu  BritishIndianOceanTerritory 54,400 3,000 58.3 - - CampJustice  Brunei 5,765 415,717 67.3 17,426 26,939 BandarSeriBegawan  Cambodia 181,035 15,205,539 81.8 16,899 1,270 PhnomPenh  China 9,596,961 1,357,380,000 145 10,355,350 8,123 Beijing  ChristmasIsland 135 1,843 10.39 - - FlyingFishCove  Cocos(Keeling)Islands 14 544 43 - - WestIsland  CookIslands 236.7 17,379 42 311 15,002.5 Avarua  FederatedStatesofMicronesia 702 104,937 158.1 383 3,058.4 Palikir  Fiji 18,274 909,389 46.4 8,330 5,153 Suva  FrenchPolynesia 4,167 275,918 78 5,623 20,098 Papeete  Guam 540 162,742 775 5,793 35,664.5 Hagåtña  HongKong 1,104 7,234,800 6,544 292,677 43,681 VictoriaCity  India 3,287,263 1,324,171,354 398.8 2,716,746 1,939 NewDelhi  Indonesia 1,904,569 252,164,800 124.66 856,066 3,570 Jakarta  Japan 377,944 126,434,964 337 4,769,804 38,894 Tokyo  Kiribati 811 110,136 152 187 1,625.3 Tarawa  Laos 236,800 6,320,000 27 11,707 2,353 Vientiane  Macau 29 541,200 18,662 36,428 73,187 Macau  Malaysia 329,847 30,185,787 90 336,913 9,503 KualaLumpur  Maldives 298 341,356 1,102.5 4,920 8,602 Malé  MarshallIslands 181.43 53,066 293 220 3,621.2 Majuro  Mongolia 1,564,116 3,369,768 2 11,725 3,686 Ulaanbaatar  Myanmar 676,578 50,496,000 74 65,291 1,275 Naypyidaw  Nauru 21 11,200 480 114 9,030.1 Yaren    Nepal 147,181 26,494,504 180 62,384 730 Kathmandu  NewCaledonia 18,576 278,500 14.5 9,894 12,579.6 Nouméa  NewZealand 268,021 4,853,496 16 201,028 39,427 Wellington  Niue 261.46 1,624 5.35 10 5,800 Alofi  NorfolkIsland 34.6 1,748 61.9 - - Kingston  NorthKorea 120,540 24,895,000 198 27,820 583 Pyongyang  NorthernMarianaIslands 464 55,144 113 1,242 28,163.8 Saipan  Pakistan 881,913 226,174,380 234.4 312,570 1,468 Islamabad  Palau 459 21,503 46.7 312 17,317.9 Ngerulmud  PapuaNewGuinea 462,840 6,732,000 15 16,096 2,183 PortMoresby  Philippines 343,448 111,615,000 307 289,686 2,951 Manila  PitcairnIslands 47 50 45 - - Adamstown  Russia 17,098,246 147,003,104 8.4 1,630,659 11,288.9 Moscow  Samoa 2,842 195,843 68 861 4,392.5 Apia  Singapore 710 5,183,700 7,023 307,085 52,961 Singapore  SolomonIslands 28,400 599,419 18.1 1,424 2,162.7 Honiara  SouthKorea 100,210 51,302,044 500 1,699,000 27,539 Seoul  SriLanka 65,610 20,277,597 323 233,637 3,835 SriJayawardenepuraKotte  Taiwan 36,191 23,119,772 639 505,452 31,900 Taipei  Thailand 513,120 67,764,000 132 380,491 5,908 Bangkok  Timor-Leste 14,874 1,171,000 76 4,510 1,162 Dili  Tokelau 10 1,499 115 10 6,275 None  Tonga 748 100,651 139 470 4,364 Nukuʻalofa  Tuvalu 26 11,192 475.88 45 3,700.7 Funafuti  Vanuatu 12,189 272,459 19.7 957 3,033.4 PortVila  Vietnam 331,210 88,069,000 265 187,848 2,186 Hanoi  WallisandFutuna 142.42 11,558 83.55 188 12,640 MataUtu Seealso[edit] Listofcountrygroupings GeographyofAsia Oceania RussianFarEast Siberia Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation(APEC) SouthAsianAssociationforRegionalCooperation(SAARC) EastAsianSummit PacificCentury AsianCentury AsiaPacificForum Asia-PacificNetworkInformationCentre AsiaPacificFoundationofCanada AsiaSociety Indo-Pacific EasternWorld TheOrient FarEast East–Westdichotomy FreeandOpenIndo-Pacific References[edit] ^"DigitalcreativityandinnovationlackinginkidsinAPAC:report–TheregionalUNESCOreportincludesrecommendationsforeducationpolicymakers" ^MemberEconomies-Asia-PacificEconomicCooperation.Apec.org.Retrievedon2014-04-12. ^ SeeforexamplePan,Hui,ed.(October2004)."VonageandCiscotosellphoneequipment".VoIPMonthlyNewsletter.InformationGatekeepersInc.2(10):3.Retrieved2011-12-15.APEJ(Asia-PacificExcludingJapan)andEEMEA(EasternEurope,MiddleEast,andAfrica)willgrowtheircombinedshareofthisfigurefrom17percentto22percentduringthesameperiod,asNorthAmerica'sshareadjustsfrom53percentto46percent. ^"GDPpercapita(currentUS$)|Data".data.worldbank.org.Retrieved2018-07-19. 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