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Also known as: Sino-Japanese region

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division of Boreal kingdom

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  In biogeographic region: East Asian region
  The East Asian, or Sino-Japanese, region, which has about 300 endemic genera, extends from the slopes of the eastern Himalayas into northeastern China and the Russian Far East, including Taiwan, Japan, and Sakhalin Island (Figure 1). In this region, tropical rainforest to…
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