Geography final chapter 9&10 (part 2)

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East Timor separated from Indonesia in

1999

What is the overall population

225.9 million people

What is the capital of the ancient Khmer Empire?

Angkor

What temple complex is located in the city of Angkor

Angkor Wat

What kind of government and economy does Singapore have?

Authoritarian; market

What is the capital of Thailand

Bangkok

The main religion of Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma is

Buddhism

The most compact state in Southeast Asia is

Cambodia

The three countries that border Vietnam are

Cambodia, Laos, and Red China

The main religion of the Philippines is

Catholicism

What is the Great River of Thailand

Chao Phraya

The newest nation in Southeast Asia is

East Timor

Who was a communist leader in North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

Saigon was renamed to

Ho Chi Minh City

What two oceans does Indonesia lie between

Indian and Pacific

What Country is consisted of 17,000 islands?

Indonesia

Half of the population of Southeast Asia live in what two countries?

Indonesia and Philippines

What is the Great River of Myanmar

Irrawaddy

What is the major religion of the Philippines

It is a Catholic stronghold

What is the capital of Indonesia and where is it located

Jakarta, on the island of Jawa

What island is known for its rich volcanic soil and intense cultivation

Jawa

Where does most the population of Indonesia live

Jawa

What is the most important Island of Indonesia. Why?

Jawa (Java) it is the center of the Dutch East Indies Empire

The major ethnic group of Cambodia is

Khmers

The poorest country in Indochina is

Laos

What is the only country in Indochina that is landlocked

Laos

Singapore broke away from what country in 1965?

Malaysia

The Malaysian Peninsula is home to what three countries?

Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand

What is the capital of the Philippines and where is it located

Manilla, on the island of Luzon

The two core areas of Vietnam are

Mekong River Delta in the South (Saigon) and Red River Delta in the north (Hanoi)

Name the two major islands of the Philippines

Mindanao and Luzon

The main religion of Indonesia is

Muslim

The Philippines have been plagued by which religious terrorists

Muslims

What is the eastern most Indonesian island

New Guinea

East Timor was a former colony of

Portgual

What country was a former British colony?

Singapore

Who did the U.S. acquire the Philippines from?

Spain, after the Spanish-American War

What island of Indonesia is most western

Sumatra

Singapore lies directly on what strait?

The Strait of Molacca

Name the oil rich country that is a former islamic sultanate, and was the former part of Malaysia on the island of Borneo

Brunei

What is the capital of Vietnam?

Hanoi

What is the worlds most populous muslim country

Indonesia

What two countries is New Guinea located

Indonesia and Melanesia

The four main population clusters of Southeast Asia are

River valleys, river deltas, plantation development of Malaysia, and on volcanic soils of the islands

What is transmigration

The now ended policy of the Indonesian government to induce Jawanese to move to other islands

Where is there a muslim population

The southern islands

What percent of Singapore is Chinese?

77%

What percent of the Indonesian population is muslim

77%

What is the capital of Myanmar

Yangon (Rangoon)

The physiography of Southeast Asia is dominated by

mountains, volcanoes and glaciers

Boundary evolution is

the description of the boundary in words, terms, or distances

French Indo-China is composed of what countries

Vietnam (called Tankin and Cochin China), Laos, and Cambodia


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