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").
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