ChinaCapital: Beijing. The largest country asked on this page. It has 14 neighbors on land, from Afghanistan to Vietnam.
JapanCapital: Tokyo. An island country, about 378,000 square kilometers. Four big islands plus thousands of smaller ones.
MongoliaCapital: Ulaanbaatar. Landlocked, with two neighbors, China and Russia. More than 1.5 million square kilometers, second in size among landlocked countries only to Kazakhstan.
North KoreaCapital: Pyongyang. About 120,500 square kilometers. A little larger than its southern neighbor. The United Nations lists it as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
South KoreaCapital: Seoul. About 100,000 square kilometers. The United Nations lists it as the Republic of Korea.
How this list was compiled: The 47 countries are the member states of the United Nations that the UN statistics office files under its five regions of Asia: the member list at https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states and United Nations Statistics Division, Standard country or area codes for statistical use (M49), https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, both checked 2026-09-19. M49 files the Russian Federation under Eastern Europe, so it is not on this list. Capitals, and which countries other lists count with Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Asia, checked 2026-09-19. One capital is left out because that source marks it as claimed; that country is asked by name only. Areas, and the largest and smallest countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_area, checked 2026-09-19; an area that the source gives with a note about a disputed territory is not stated. Landlocked countries, their neighbors, Kazakhstan as the largest landlocked country, Kyrgyzstan as the one farthest from any ocean, Uzbekistan as doubly landlocked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. Island countries and what each is made of, Indonesia as the largest island country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_island_countries, checked 2026-09-19. Neighbor counts of China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Brunei and Timor-Leste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_number_of_land_borders, checked 2026-09-19. Countries on the Caspian Sea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_Sea, checked 2026-09-19. Borneo as the third largest island and how it is shared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo, checked 2026-09-19. Shapes of the drawing that are not member states of the United Nations, or that the points file flags, are not on this list and are never asked. Positions in the hints were read off the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Sri Lanka, the legislative capital and the executive and commercial capital beside it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Jayawardenepura_Kotte, checked 2026-09-19; Colombo is accepted as a typed capital. The capital of Myanmar is spelled Naypyidaw on every page of this family; Nay Pyi Taw, the spelling the United Nations uses, is accepted. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 32°N 87°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 4 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of East Asia numbers five countries: China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea. Their neighbors are drawn without numbers.
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Blank, numbered or named
The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the five countries, or Named for their names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key gives the names on a sheet of its own.
A blank political map of East Asia
The lines are country borders, so this is the political map a class labels. China is by far the largest shape. Mongolia has no coast: Russia lies to its north and China on its other three sides. Japan is the chain of islands across the sea from the two Koreas.
Start with China, then find Mongolia in the dip along its northern side. The Korean Peninsula points from the mainland toward Japan.
Questions and answers
Which countries are in East Asia?
Five member states of the United Nations are filed under Eastern Asia: China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea and South Korea. The same list puts Hong Kong and Macao, two special regions of China, there too.
Is this also a blank map of Northeast Asia?
It works as one. Northeast Asia has no fixed list: it usually means Japan, Korea and northeastern China, and often Mongolia and eastern Russia. The five numbered countries cover it, and Russia is drawn without a number.
Why is Taiwan not numbered?
Some borders on this map are disputed. The map follows Natural Earth, a public-domain map source, and does not take a side. It numbers member states of the United Nations, so Taiwan is drawn as a shape of its own with no number.