World Regional Geography

1. World Regional Geography Southeast Asia

2. Southeast Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States

6. Ten Geographic Qualities • 1. Land is fragmented into numerous peninsulas & islands • 2. Cultural Fragmentation (linguistic & religious geographies)

7. Ten Geographic Qualities • 3. Powerful Foreign Influences • 4. Political instability & conflict • 5. Population strongly clustered even in rural areas

8. Ten Geographic Qualities • 6. Poor Intraregional communications • 7. Agricultural mainstay of the econonmies • 8. No dominant state although China & India have exerted powerful influence

9. Ten Geographic Qualities • 9. Emergence of Newly Industrialized Countries of Singapore • 10. Former Colonial Domination of this region

10. Relative Location of Southeast Asia • Centrally located between South Asia, and the Pacific Ocean • North of Oceania Asia and south of China & Japan

11. Southeast Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States

12. Physical Geography of Southeast Asia • Plate Tectonics • Plateaus • Deserts • Mountains • Rivers • Lakes • Climates

13. Physical Geography • Plate Tectonics • Subduction of the Eurasian, Indian and Philippine Plates have created the Philippine & Indonesian archipelago

15. Physical Geography of Southeast Asia • Rivers • Mekong River • Irrawaddy • Landforms • Volcanic Archipelagos - Volcanic Islands • Himalayan foothills extend into Myanmar & Thailand

17. 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

18. Climates of SouthEeast Asia

20. Vegetation Map

21. Southeast Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States

22. Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia • Population • Languages • Religion • Agriculture • Economics • Historical Geography

25. Population Concentrations

28. Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia • Religion • Buddhism dominates northern SE Asia • Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia • Islam dominates Malaysia & Indonesia • Christianity in the Philippines

29. Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia • Religion • Religious landscapes

30. Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia • Agriculture • subsistence farming • intensive rice farming

31. Aqua farming in Thailand

32. Thrashing the grains from the shafts in Northern Thailand

39. Southeast Asia • Ten Geographic Qualities • Physical Geography • Cultural Geography • Regions & States

40. Political Geography of Southeast Asia