South East Asia Outline

South East Asia Map

Some information I got

Geography

Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions: the Asian mainland, and island arcs and archipelagoes to the east and southeast.

The mainland section consists of Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia (or to be more precise, Peninsular Malaysia).

The maritime section consists of Brunei, East Timor,^[1] Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore.

Political

Definitions of “Southeast Asia” vary, but most definitions include the area represented by the countries:

• Brunei
• Burma (Myanmar)
• Cambodia
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• East Timor

Travel

• Brunei – tiny oil-rich sultanate in Borneo

• Cambodia – recovering from decades of war and home of Angkor

• East Timor – one of the world’s newest states, at the eastern tip of Indonesia

• Indonesia – the giant, the largest archipelagic country in the world, with more than 18,000 islands
• Laos – the forgotten, but growing, country of South-East Asia, landlocked by Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam

• Malaysia – multicultural country covering the skyscrapers of KL and the jungle headhunters of Borneo

• Myanmar (Burma) – military dictatorship open to the adventurous traveller

• Philippines – freewheeling former Spanish and American colony with over 7,100 islands and beautiful tropical beaches

• Singapore – clean and orderly island-city state

• Thailand – the most popular destination in the region

• Vietnam – firmly marching down the long road to capitalism

Let’s check them out!

~ by Angela Huynh on June 26, 2009.