Asia &; Pacific), a regional term, refers to the abbreviation of Asia and the Pacific coast. The concept of region in the Asia-Pacific region is divided into broad sense and narrow sense.
Broadly speaking, it includes the whole Pacific Rim region. Countries and regions on the east and west sides of the Pacific Ocean include countries in North and South America such as Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru and Chile, and countries and regions in the Russian Far East, Japan, South Korea, Chinese mainland, China, Taiwan Province and Hongkong, ASEAN countries and Australia and New Zealand in Oceania.
In a narrow sense, it refers to the western Pacific region, which mainly includes China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) in East Asia, Japan, the Russian Far East and ASEAN countries in Southeast Asia, and sometimes extends to Australia and New Zealand in Oceania.