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'Eastasia' is one of the three superstates in the novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', the others being Oceania and Eurasia. Its borders are not as clearly defined as the other two superstates but it is known that they at least comprise most of modern day China, Japan, and Korea as well as fluctuating areas of Manchuria, Mongolia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Its political ideology is, according to the novel, "called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-worship, but perhaps better rendered as 'Obliteration of the Self'."
Not much information about Eastasia is given in the book but it is known that it is the newest and smallest of the three superstates. According to Goldstein's book it emerged a decade after the establishment of the other two superstates: Oceania and Eurasia placing it somewhere in the 1960s, after years of fighting among the nations that now make up this state. It is also said in the book that the people of Eastasia are industrious and that allows them to overcome their inadequacies over the other two states. It is believed by some that Eastasia is in fact just one part of a "World State" that controls all of Earth, but pretends to exist as three states to maintain the constant war used to keep the population in line.
No flag is depicted or described in the book for any of the three superstates. The movie adaptation shows a flag of Oceania and briefly shows a flag of Eurasia, but never depicts a flag for Eastasia.