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Southeast Asia is one of the most culturally diverse regions of the world. There are many different languages and ethnicities in the region. Historically, Southeast Asia was significantly influenced by Indian, Chinese, Muslim, and colonial cultures, which became core components of the region's cultural and political institutions. Most modern ...
Landforms of Southeast Asia by country (12 C) B. Geography of Brunei (13 C, 4 P) C. Geography of Cambodia (14 C, 6 P) E. Geography of East Timor (14 C, 4 P) I.
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
Name Nation View Population Mayor or governor Dhaka Bangladesh 6,594,962 (2013) North Dhaka: Atiqul Islam. South Dhaka: Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh. Islamabad Pakistan 1,330,000 (2011)
Southeast Asia geography-related lists (11 C) + Geography of Christmas Island (2 C, 5 P) Geography of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (2 C, 2 P) A. ASEAN heritage parks ...
The public domain map data set Natural Earth has metadata in the fields named "region_un" and "subregion" for Taiwan. The regional split recommended by Lloyd's of London for Eastern Asia (UN statistical divisions of Eastern Asia) contains Taiwan. [3] Based on the United Nations statistical divisions, the APRICOT (conference) includes Taiwan in ...
1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...
Recentissima Asiae Delineatio, the 1730 geographical map of Johan Christoph Homann. Asia is shown in color. The names are in Latin. Asia, the central and eastern part of Eurasia, comprises approximately fifty countries.