ABSTRACT
The geographical concept of Northeast Asia is here understood as the sum of the following five sub-regions: eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea and Japan (Chard 1974: xv). The maximum continental extension of the region is marked by the Yenisei in the west and the Yellow River in the south. Thus defined, Northeast Asia overlaps to a considerable extent, though not completely, with the geographical and cultural region of East Asia (Barnes 1993: 10–12).
