Southeast Asia

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• Southeast Asia

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Ten Geographical Features

1. Land is fragmented into numerous peninsulas
   islands
2. Cultural Fragmentation (languages and religions
   vary greatly)

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• Powerful Foreign Influences
• Political instability conflict
• Population strongly clustered even in rural areas

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1. Poor Intraregional communications
2. Agricultural mainstay of the economies
3. No dominant state although China India have
   exerted powerful influence

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1. Emergence of Newly Industrialized Countries of
   Singapore
2. Former Colonial Domination of this region

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Relative Location of Southeast Asia

• Centrally located between South Asia, and the
  Pacific Ocean
• North of Oceania Asia and south of China Japan

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Plate Tectonics
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Physical Geography of Southeast Asia

• Climates
• Tropical Rainforest Climate dominates Malaysia
  Indonesia
• Tropical Savanna Climate dominates the northern
  portion of SE Asia including Thailand, Cambodia
  the southern part of Vietnam

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Climates of SouthEeast Asia
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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

• Population
• Languages
• Religion
• Agriculture
• Economics
• Historical Geography

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

• Population
• 1/2 billion
• concentrations on coasts rivers
• large concentration on the island of Java

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Southeast Asia

• Population Characteristics
• Infant Mortality 55/1000
• Pop lt15 35
• Pop gt 65 4