Cool but not cold winters, warm-to-hot summers, a decent amount of rain for plants to grow, many villages and cities. This is your average Temperate climate location.

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East Asian city

East Asian city

In an East Asian city everything seems cramped. The area has extremely high population density (400 people/km2) and much of this scarce land is mountainous. Cities have small strips of coastal land to develop on. Nevertheless they are huge.

Chinese script

Chinese script

Chinese script is used mainly in China, but this means 23% of all world’s people and 5% its territory. Chinese script has thousand of different characters, each of them of the same width and height, consisting of many strokes.

Japanese script (katakana, hiragana)

Japanese script (katakana, hiragana)

While the Japanese script is used by just a single nation (~2% world population), the economic power and cultural influence of Japan placed it well among the world’s most-recognizable writing systems.