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This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
The Samudera Pasai Sultanate (Malay: كسلطانن سامودرا ڤاساي ), also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries.
List of countries in Asia and Oceania by Human Development Index Rank Nation Human Development Index (HDI) Region World HDI 2022 HDI 2021 Change in HDI Value (2021-2022) Very High Human Development 1 4 Hong Kong: 0.956 0.959 0.003 2 9 Singapore: 0.949 0.942 0.007 3 12 Australia: 0.946 0.949 0.003 4 16 New Zealand: 0.939 0.936 0.003 5 19
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [d] commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, [e] is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.Together, its member states represent a population of more than 600 million people and land area of over 4.5 million km 2 (1.7 million sq mi). [14]
The Sultanate of Bima (Malay: كسلطانن بيم , romanized: Kesultanan Bima), officially known as The Settlements and Lands of Mbojo (Bima: Rasa ro Dana Mbojo), [1] [2] alternatively the Kingdom of Bima (Malay: کرجاءن بيم , romanized: Kerajaan Bima) was a Muslim state in the eastern part of Sumbawa in Indonesia, at the site of the present-day regency of Bima. [3]
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 ...
Brunei, [b] officially Brunei Darussalam, [c] [d] is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with its territory bifurcated by the Sarawak district of Limbang.
Solor Watan Lema: A confederation of five Islamic kingdoms in East Nusa Tenggara. Sonbai: A dynasty in West Timor which was divided in Sonbai Besar and Sonbai Kecil. Soya: A small kingdom in Ambon, Maluku Islands. Sunda: A kingdom in Indonesia. Surakarta: A 3,635 km 2 state in Java founded in 1755 after the state of Mataram split into two states.