Asia can be divided into five regions. These are Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Asia. Central Asia is politically divided into five countries: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Generally, the modern states of East Asian include:
China
Japan
Mongolia
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan
The East Asian states of China, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan are all unrecognized by at least one other East Asian state due to severe ongoing political tensions in the region, specifically the division of Korea and the political status of Taiwan.
