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The three separate areas ___MASK47___ the park span the borders ___MASK47___ the municipalities ___MASK47___ Mutsu , Higashidri , Sai , and ma . ___MASK5___ , officially the Republic ___MASK47___ ___MASK39___ ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include ___MASK39___ ( officially the People ' s Republic ___MASK47___ ___MASK39___ , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . ___MASK5___ is the most populous state that is not a member ___MASK47___ the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . Korea is a historical state in ___MASK74___ Asia , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : ___MASK30___ ( officially the " Democratic People ' s Republic ___MASK47___ Korea ") and ___MASK14___ ( officially the " Republic ___MASK47___ Korea "). Located on the Korean Peninsula , Korea is bordered by ___MASK39___ to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the ___MASK74___ Sea . ___MASK39___ , officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK39___ ( 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 ___MASK39___ , 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 . ___MASK39___ is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . The is the remote northeastern cape ___MASK47___ the Japanese island ___MASK47___ Honsh , stretching out towards ___MASK87___ . Administratively the area is a part ___MASK47___ ___MASK64___ . ___MASK88___ (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State ___MASK47___ ___MASK88___ ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the ___MASK6___ , It is lying off the eastern coast ___MASK47___ the Asia Mainland ( east ___MASK47___ ___MASK39___ , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea ___MASK47___ Okhotsk in the north to the East ___MASK39___ Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest . Geography . Mutsu occupies ___MASK21___ ___MASK47___ Shimokita Peninsula and is bordered by Mutsu Bay to the south and the Tsugaru Strait to the north , and is the northernmost city on Honsh . Much ___MASK47___ the city is within the limits ___MASK47___ the Shimokita Hanto Quasi - National Park . The volcanic Osorezan Mountain Range extends across the ___MASK10___ portion ___MASK47___ the city , and includes a number ___MASK47___ caldera lakes . National Route 394 is a national highway ___MASK47___ Japan connecting Mutsu , Aomori and Hirosaki , Aomori in Japan , with a total length ___MASK47___ 185 km ( 114 . 95 mi ) . The is a strait between Honshu and Hokkaido in ___MASK10___ Japan connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean . It was named after the western part of ___MASK64___ . The Seikan Tunnel passes under it at its narrowest point 12 . 1 miles ( 19 . 5 km ) between Tappi Misaki on the Tsugaru Peninsula in ___MASK64___ , Honshu , and Shirakami Misaki on the Matsumae Peninsula in Hokkaido . The ___MASK6___ 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 . The Sea ___MASK47___ Okhotsk is a marginal sea ___MASK47___ the western ___MASK6___ , lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east , the Kuril Islands on the southeast , the island ___MASK47___ Hokkaido to the south , the island ___MASK47___ Sakhalin along the west , and a long stretch ___MASK47___ 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 . ___MASK89___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK89___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth ___MASK47___ the ___MASK94___ ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end ___MASK47___ March 2016 . The European western part ___MASK47___ the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % ___MASK47___ the population live in European ___MASK89___ . ___MASK89___ ' s capital Moscow is one ___MASK47___ the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and ___MASK83___ . Asia is ___MASK94___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and ___MASK10___ hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK94___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK94___ ' 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 .