Far East – in a broad sense, the region of the Earth including a number of states and territories on Northeast Asia and extreme eastern areas of Russia, among them are Primorskiy and Khabarovskiy Krai; Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin Oblast; Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Jewish Autonomous Okrug; partly the territories of Yakutia and Chita Oblast; eastern part of China; North and South Korea; Japan; and sometimes the Philippines. Thus, it is divided into the Russian and foreign Far East.
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(2016). Far East. In: Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (eds) The Eastern Arctic Seas Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia of Seas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24237-8_176
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