General Information about the AOR
 

This AOR is not the same as Asia in a geographic sense (which would include most of the Middle East), but corresponds to the AOR of the United States Pacific Command. A map of the AOR is available here.

For convenience's sake, the region may be divided into the following sub-regions:

East Asia:

• China, People's Republic of (PRC)
• China, Republic of (ROC, or Taiwan)
• Japan
• Korea, North (DPRK)
• Korea, South (ROK)
• Mongolia

South Asia and the Indian Ocean:

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• India
• Nepal
• Sri Lanka

This region also covers various island states in the Indian Ocean: Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives and Mauritius. Although South Asia conventionally includes Pakistan and Afghanistan, these are included under "Middle East" as they are in CENTCOM's AOR.

Southeast Asia:

• Brunei
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• The Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste (East Timor)
• Vietnam

Oceania:

• Australia
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• The Marshall Islands
• Micronesia, Federated States of
• Nauru
• New Zealand
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
• Samoa
• The Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

There are also various colonies and dependencies of other nations in this region, such as Guam, French Polynesia and the Cook Islands (whose status is "self-governing in free association with New Zealand").