Geography final chapter 9&10 (part 2)
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
