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The Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in portions of Northern Asia, which includes the nations of
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
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Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million ...
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North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
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South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
. Its headquarters is in Goyang City, South Korea. The Division membership as of June 30, 2021 is 285,242.


Sub Fields

The Northern Asia-Pacific is divided into two Union Conferences, one attached Conference and one attached Mission. These are divided into local Conferences and Missions. * Japan Union Conference ** East Japan Conference ** Okinawa Mission ** West Japan Conference * Korean Union Conference ** East Central Korean Conference ** Jeju Region ** Middlewest Korean Conference ** North Korean Mission ** Southeast Korean Conference ** Southwest Korean Conference ** West Central Korean Conference * Mongolia Mission * Taiwan Conference


History


See also

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Seventh-day Adventist Church in the People's Republic of China The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a significant presence in the People's Republic of China with a reported 472,314 members as of June 30, 2020. Many of its pastors in China are women. There are or used to be m ...
* Seventh-day Adventist Church in Sichuan *
Seventh-day Adventist Church The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
* List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals * List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools * List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities


References


External links

*{{Official website History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asia