By area, Eastern Asia is dominated by China, the world's third-largest country after Russia and Canada. China claims the island of Taiwan, although Taiwan is a separate territory with it's own government, and also the tiny territory of Macao, in the southeast, which Portugal has agreed to return to China in December 1999. Eastern Asia also includes North Korea, South Korea and Mongolia. Japan is also part of Easter Asia, but is covered separately.
The western part of Eastern Asia contains high plateaux, mountain rages and deserts. Tibet, in the southwest , contains the region's highest peak, Mount Everest, which stands on the border with Nepal. The inland deserts are hot in summer, but are bitterly cold in winter. The Gobi Desert, which lies partly in northern China and partly in Mongolia, is one of the bleakest deserts on Earth.
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