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National Route 149 is a national highway ___MASK98___ Japan connecting Shimizu - ku , Shizuoka and Shimizu - ku , Shizuoka in Japan , with a total length ___MASK98___ 2 . 6 km ( 1 . 62 mi ) . Suruga Bay (  , " Suruga - wan ") is a bay on the Pacific coast ___MASK98___ Honshu in ___MASK39___ , Japan . It is situated north ___MASK98___ an imaginary line joining Omaezaki Point and Irzaki Point at the tip ___MASK98___ the Izu Peninsula and surrounded by Honsh to the southwest and west and the Izu Peninsula to the east . ___MASK2___ , officially the Republic ___MASK98___ ___MASK94___ ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include ___MASK94___ ( officially the People ' s Republic ___MASK98___ ___MASK94___ , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . ___MASK2___ is the most populous state that is not a member ___MASK98___ the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . The ___MASK76___ is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . , located on Honshu Island , is the highest ___MASK86___ in Japan at . An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707  08 , Mount Fuji lies about south - west ___MASK98___ ___MASK53___ , and can be seen from there on a clear day . Mount Fuji ' s exceptionally symmetrical cone , which is snow - capped several months a year , is a well - known symbol ___MASK98___ Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and photographs , as well as visited by sightseers and climbers . Korea is a historical state in ___MASK13___ Asia , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : ___MASK25___ ( officially the " Democratic People ' s Republic ___MASK98___ Korea ") and ___MASK40___ ( officially the " Republic ___MASK98___ Korea "). Located on the Korean Peninsula , Korea is bordered by ___MASK94___ to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the ___MASK13___ Sea . ___MASK61___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State ___MASK98___ ___MASK61___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the ___MASK76___ , It is lying off the eastern coast ___MASK98___ the Asia Mainland ( east ___MASK98___ ___MASK94___ , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea ___MASK98___ Okhotsk in the north to the East ___MASK94___ Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . Asia is ___MASK19___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and ___MASK90___ hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK19___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK19___ ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . Geography . ___MASK73___ is located on the coast ___MASK98___ Suruga Bay ___MASK98___ the ___MASK76___ and covers a wide area from a coastal plain to the hills . The view ___MASK98___ Mount Fuji at ___MASK73___ as seen across the bay from the Miho no Matsubara appears in many pictures and paintings . The Sea ___MASK98___ Okhotsk is a marginal sea ___MASK98___ the western ___MASK76___ , lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east , the Kuril Islands on the southeast , the island ___MASK98___ Hokkaido to the south , the island ___MASK98___ Sakhalin along the west , and a long stretch ___MASK98___ eastern Siberian coast ( the Shantar Sea ) along the west and north . The northeast corner is the Shelikhov Gulf . The sea is named after Okhotsk , the first Russian settlement in the Far East . ___MASK94___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK94___ ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of ___MASK94___ , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . ___MASK94___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . ___MASK60___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK60___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth ___MASK98___ the ___MASK19___ ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end ___MASK98___ March 2016 . The European western part ___MASK98___ the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % ___MASK98___ the population live in European ___MASK60___ . ___MASK60___ ' s capital Moscow is one ___MASK98___ the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and ___MASK15___ .