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A quick count of occurrences of region names (might not be exhaustive):

China 358

Japan 137

USA 66

Taiwan 54

Korea 35

Vietnam 22

Philippines 17

Malaysia 17

Thailand 16

Singapore 14

Germany 11

Indonesia 6

India 6

Brazil 5

Czech 3

Israel 3

Mexico 3

France 3

Austria 3

Belgium 3

Netherlands 3

UK 2

Italy 1

Ireland 1

Norway 1

Costa Rica 1

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I made a map: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0N2SZ/1/

Most of the China based suppliers are located to the east of Heihe-tengchong line[1], i.e. the east half of China.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihe–Tengchong_Line

As the Wikipedia article you linked to points out 96% of China's population lives east of that line, it would be really odd if most of Apple's suppliers weren't also east of the line.

If you break these numbers down further to city level, most of them are near the coastline.

Naturally; the coastline was the location of major trade ports, and major trade ports are where business grows. It's no coincidence that the Chinese special economic zones all sit around the coast.

America is similar. Most of America's businesses are east of the Mississippi, where 1/2 of the American population lives in 1/3 of the American empire.

Breaking China down to provinces (I cannot find which are the ones I missed, about 10 of them total):

Guangdong 110 (Shenzhen 41; Dongguan 36; Guangzhou 9; Huizhou 9; Zhuhai 6; Zhongshan 4)

Jiangsu 110

Shanghai 36

Sichuan 14

Henan 12

Shandong 10

Tianjin 8

Zhejiang 8

Fujian 6

Chongqing 5

Jiangxi 4

Hunan 4

Hebei 3

Guangxi 3

Liaoning 3

Shaanxi 3 (not to be mistaken as Shanxi)

Beijing 2

Anhui 2

Shanxi 2

Interesting US only is at 3rd (probably less than 15% in total ... )

I'm surprised Canada isn't on that list given NAFTA. But I guess we don't do much electronics hardware work.

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