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A country within the "sphere of influence" of another more powerful country may become a subsidiary of that state and serve in effect as a Satellite State or de facto Colony . For example, during the height of its existence, the Japanese Empire had quite a large sphere of influence, with the Japanese government influencing, or directly governing events in Korea , Manchuria , Vietnam , Taiwan , and parts of China . The Japanese "sphere of influence" could thus be quite easily drawn on a map of the Pacific Ocean as a large "bubble" surrounding the islands of Japan and the Asian nations it controlled. During the Cold War , Western Europe , Japan , and South Korea were often said to lie under the sphere of influence of the United States , while Eastern Europe , North Korea , Cuba , Vietnam , and (until the Sino-Soviet Split ) the People's Republic Of China were said to lie under the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union . Sometimes portions of a single country can fall into two distinct spheres of influence. In the colonial era the Buffer State s of Iran and Thailand , lying between the empires of Britain / Russia and Britain/ France respectively, were divided between the spheres of influence of the imperial Powers . Likewise, after World War II , Germany was divided into four occupation zones, which later consolidated into West Germany and East Germany , the former a member of NATO and the latter a member of the Warsaw Pact . In rarer instances, multiple spheres of influence by different imperial powers can be established in a single country as a compromise between the imperial powers and also when establishing a single sphere of influence is not feasible due to the size of that single country. For example, between the 1870 s and the 1910 s, although the Chinese Empire still existed as a Sovereign country, it was divided into 6 SOI zones officially in which Russia took the area north of the Great Wall , Germany the Shandong Province, Japan the Fujian Province, Britain the Yangtze River basin, France the southwestern Chinese provinces bordering French Indochina and Britain/France jointly the Guangdong Province. Similarly, the Ottoman Empire was divided by the imperial powers into several SOIs at around the same time. In California "sphere of influence" has a legal meaning as a plan for the probable physical boundaries and service area of a local agency. Spheres of influence at California local agencies are regulated by Local Agency Formation Commissions ( LAFCO ). Each County in California has a LAFCO. SEE ALSO DISAMBIGUATION "Sphere of Influence Inc." is also the name of a consulting business. EXTERNAL LINKS
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