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World Regional Geography
Southeast Asia
  • C.J. Cox
  • Instructor

Week 10
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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
  • Irriwaddy
  • 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
  • Population
  • 1/2 billion
  • concentrations on coasts rivers
  • large concentration on the island of Java

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Southeast Asia
  • Population Characteristics
  • Birth rates 24/1000
  • Death rates 8/1000
  • Natural Increase 1.6.
  • Infant Mortality 55/1000
  • Doubling Time 42yrs
  • Pop
  • Pop 65 4

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia
  • Languages
  • Sino-Tibetan Languages of Thai, Burmese and
    Vietnamese dominate in the north
  • Malayo Polynesian Language Family dominates in
    the southern portion of SE Asia

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Religions
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Religions
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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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Agriculture in Southeast Asia
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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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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia
  • Economy
  • primary industries dominate
  • resource rich
  • oil in Indonesia Brunei
  • manufacturing labor source for the developed
    world

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Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia
  • Economic Contrasts
  • Extreme poverty in Laos, Myranmar Cambodia
  • Relative prosperity in Thailand and Malaysia
  • Wealthy Singapore Brunei

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Income levels
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Historical Geography
  • Colonial Colonization Trade
  • Important in transPacific shipping
  • Spain - Philippines 1571-1898
  • Dutch - Indonesia 17th century to 1949
  • spice Islands
  • British - Burma (Myanmar( Malysia)
  • France - Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

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Historical Geography
  • Japanese Empire of the 20th Century
  • Japanese Economic Imperialism
  • China Japan as world powers
  • Emergence of NICs known as the lesser dragons or
    powers of Asia

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

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Political Geography of Southeast Asia
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Political Geography
  • Elongated Vietnam
  • Prorupt Burma Thailand
  • Fragmented Indonesia Philippines
  • Divided Malaysia

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

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World Regional Geography
Southeast Asia
  • C.J. Cox
  • Instructor

Week 10
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