General

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World Regional Geography
Southeast Asia
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Southeast Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 1. Land is fragmented into numerous peninsulas
  islands
• 2. Cultural Fragmentation (linguistic religious
  geographies)

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 3. Powerful Foreign Influences
• 4. Political instability conflict
• 5. Population strongly clustered even in rural
  areas

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 6. Poor Intraregional communications
• 7. Agricultural mainstay of the econonmies
• 8. No dominant state although China India have
  exerted powerful influence

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Ten Geographic Qualities

• 9. Emergence of Newly Industrialized Countries of
  Singapore
• 10. 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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Southeast Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Physical Geography of Southeast Asia

• Plate Tectonics
• Plateaus
• Deserts
• Mountains
• Rivers
• Lakes
• Climates

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Physical Geography

• Plate Tectonics
• Subduction of the Eurasian, Indian and Philippine
  Plates have created the Philippine Indonesian
  archipelago

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Physical Geography of Southeast Asia

• Rivers
• Mekong River
• Irrawaddy
• Landforms
• Volcanic Archipelagos - Volcanic Islands
• Himalayan foothills extend into Myanmar
  Thailand

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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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Vegetation Map
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Southeast Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

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

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Population Concentrations
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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

• Religion
• Buddhism dominates northern SE Asia
• Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos Cambodia
• Islam dominates Malaysia Indonesia
• Christianity in the Philippines

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

• Religion
• Religious landscapes

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia

• Agriculture
• subsistence farming
• intensive rice farming

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Aqua farming in Thailand
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Thrashing the grains from the shafts in
Northern Thailand
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Southeast Asia

• Ten Geographic Qualities
• Physical Geography
• Cultural Geography
• Regions States

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Political Geography of Southeast Asia