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• Hong Kong
• Chinese but a special case
• Japan
• Environment, settlement, history economy

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Today East Asia Continued

• Korea
• Environment, settlement, history, economy
• Taiwan
• Environment, settlement, history, economy

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Korea

• Physical geography
• Climate more extreme than Japan
• S Korea less mountainous than N
• S Korea possesses far better and more farm land

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Korea

• Settlement and population
• Koreas
• Densely settled
• High physiological density
• S Korea
• 2/3 size of NC
• 48 m heavily urban
• Seoul 12 m gt primate city

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Korea

• Settlement and population
• N Korea
• same size as NC
• 23 m

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Korea

• Cultural historical factors
• Independence
• Yet conquest domination
• Economy
• S. Korean economic miracle
• Unification issues

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Taiwan (Formosa)

• Physical geography
• Tropical/sub-tropical climate Warm and wet
• Hilly (tectonic) landscape
• Settlement and population
• History and culture
• Economics

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Taiwan (Formosa)

• Settlement and population
• 1/4 size of NC but with gt 20 m pop
• High physiological density
• History and culture
• Chinese occupation from 1600s
• Japanese occupation
• Current Nationalist gvernment
• Economics
• Another Asian tiger
• Unification issues

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