Asia Pacific

**Asia-Pacific** or **Asia Pacific** (abbreviated as **Asia-Pac**, **Asia Pac**, **Apac**, **APAC**, **APNIC**, **APJ**, **JAPA** or **JAPAC**) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean. The region varies in size.  It typically includes much of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Oceania.

The term may also include Russia (on the North Pacific) and countries in North and South America which are on the coast of the Eastern Pacific Ocean; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), for example, includes Canada, Chile, Russia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.

The term sometimes includes all of Asia and Australasia as well as the many Pacific island nations.

Even though imprecise, the term has become popular since the late 1980s in commerce, finance and politics.  It is popular even though the economies within the region are not the same.)

## Areas

The Asia-Pacific region generally includes:

## Main countries and territories data

|Country or territory|Area km²|Population|Population density per km²|GDP millions of USD (2009)|GDP per capita USD (2009)|Capital||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:left;"|__|align="center"|199|align="center"|55,519|align="center"|326|align="center"|537|align="center"|7,874|style="text-align:left;"|Pago Pago|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|7,617,930|align="center"|22,462,842|align="center"|3|align="center"|920,000|align="center"|41,500|style="text-align:left;"|Canberra|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|5,765|align="center"|407,000|align="center"|70|align="center"|14,700|align="center"|36,700|style="text-align:left;"|Bandar Seri Begawan|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|181,035|align="center"|14,805,000|align="center"|82|align="center"|10,900|align="center"|800|style="text-align:left;"|Phnom Penh|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|9,671,018|align="center"|1,339,530,000|align="center"|138|align="center"|4,911,000|align="center"|3,700|style="text-align:left;"|Beijing|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|14,874|align="center"|1,171,000|align="center"|76|align="center"|599|align="center"|500|style="text-align:left;"|Dili|
|style="text-align:left;"|__|align="center"|1,104|align="center"|7,055,071|align="center"|6,390|align="center"|210,730|align="center"|30,000|style="text-align:left;"|-|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|3,287,263|align="center"|1,210,193,422|align="center"|365|align="center"|4,060,000|align="center"|3,339|style="text-align:left;"|New Delhi|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|1,904,569|align="center"|237,556,363|align="center"|126|align="center"|514,900|align="center"|2,200|style="text-align:left;"|Jakarta|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|377,944|align="center"|127,470,000|align="center"|337|align="center"|5,073,000|align="center"|39,700|style="text-align:left;"|Tokyo|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|236,800|align="center"|6,320,000|align="center"|27|align="center"|5,721|align="center"|900|style="text-align:left;"|Vientiane|
|style="text-align:left;"|__|align="center"|29|align="center"|541,200|align="center"|18,662|align="center"|21,700|align="center"|39,800|style="text-align:left;"|-|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|329,847|align="center"|28,318,000|align="center"|86|align="center"|191,399|align="center"|7,525|style="text-align:left;"|Kuala Lumpur|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|1,564,116|align="center"|2,736,800|align="center"|2|align="center"|4,212|align="center"|1,500|style="text-align:left;"|Ulan Bator|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|676,578|align="center"|50,496,000|align="center"|74|align="center"|26,820|align="center"|500|style="text-align:left;"|Naypyidaw|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|268,021|align="center"|4,357,437|align="center"|16|align="center"|109,600|align="center"|25,500|style="text-align:left;"|Wellington|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|120,540|align="center"|23,906,000|align="center"|198|align="center"|27,820|align="center"|1,200|style="text-align:left;"|Pyongyang|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|462,840|align="center"|6,732,000|align="center"|15|align="center"|8,200|align="center"|1,200|style="text-align:left;"|Port Moresby|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|299,764|align="center"|91,983,000|align="center"|307|align="center"|158,700|align="center"|1,700|style="text-align:left;"|Manila|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|710|align="center"|4,987,600|align="center"|7,023|align="center"|177,133|align="center"|35,500|style="text-align:left;"|City of Singapore|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|100,140|align="center"|50,062,000|align="center"|500|align="center"|800,300|align="center"|20,000|style="text-align:left;"|Seoul|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|36,191|align="center"|23,119,772|align="center"|639|align="center"|379,400|align="center"|16,400|style="text-align:left;"|Taipei|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|513,120|align="center"|67,764,000|align="center"|132|align="center"|263,510|align="center"|3,900|style="text-align:left;"|Bangkok|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|331,210|align="center"|88,069,000|align="center"|265|align="center"|97,119|align="center"|1,100|style="text-align:left;"|Hanoi|
|style="text-align:left;"||align="center"|147181|align="center"|27,00,000|align="center"|251|align="center"|-|align="center"|-|style="text-align:left;"|Kathmandu|