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Definition: Southeast Asia from Collins English Dictionary

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1 a region including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam

Southeast Asia

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name “Southeast Asia” came into popular use after World War II and has replaced such phrases as “Further India,” “the East Indies,” “Indo-China,” and “the Malay Peninsula,” which formerly designated all or part of the region. Southeast Asia includes the Indochina Peninsula, which juts into the South China Sea, the Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian and Philippine Archipelagos. The region has 10 independent countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Peninsular Southeast Asia is a rugged region traversed by many mountains and drained by great rivers such as the Thanlwin, Ayeyarwady, Chao Phraya, and Mekong. Insular Southeast Asia is made up of numerous volcanic and coral islands. Southeast Asia has a generally tropical…
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From New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
People with ethnic origins in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand are members of some of the most rapidly growing groups in American society. Table 1 shows that there were only 114,210 Thai, ethnic Lao, Hmong from Laos, and Cambodians in the United States as recently as 1980. Two decades later, the Thai…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name “Southeast Asia” came into popular use after World War II and has replaced such phrases as…
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
A region bordered by India to the west, China to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the east; includes Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos. Southeast Asia is composed of ten independent countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar…
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The term Southeast Asia came to be used during World War II, when the region was placed under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900–79). It includes the area to the east of the Indian subcontinent and to the south of China. In 2006 the countries of the region were Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, …
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From Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies
It is widely recognized that the Southeast Asian region refers geographically to the corner of Asia east of India, south of China, west of New Guinea, and north of Australia. This covers the political territories of the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Timor…
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From Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
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The Islamic civilization that emerged in Southeast Asia beginning in the fourteenth century CE stretches across what are now Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. In precolonial times the kerajaan (kingdom) and the pesantren / pondok / surau (Islamic school) were the…
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From The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
a region of subtropical and tropical environments, includes the Philippines, Indonesia, East Timor, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Burma (also known as Myanmar). In addition, some of the peoples living in China's Yunnan province near the border with Burma and…
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From The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Southeast Asia
A geographic region south of East Asia and east of South Asia, situated between 30° north and 10° south latitude, consisting of 1.7 million square miles of land and more than twice that amount of seas. This area encompasses present-day Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia (Kampuchea), Vietnam, Singapore, …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Collective military defence system 1954–77 established by Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, the UK, and the USA to protect Southeast Asia from the spread of communism. Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were given military protection as protocol states, but were not…
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(SEATO), alliance organized (1954) under the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty by representatives of Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States. Established under Western auspices after the French withdrawal from Indochina, SEATO…
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