World Regional Geography

1. World Regional Geography Southeast Asia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. 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

19. Climates of SouthEeast Asia

21. Vegetation Map

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

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

26. Population Concentrations

31. Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia • Population • 1/2 billion • concentrations on coasts & rivers • large concentration on the island of Java

32. Southeast Asia • Population Characteristics • Birth rates 24/1000 • Death rates 8/1000 • Natural Increase 1.6. % • Infant Mortality 55/1000 • Doubling Time 42yrs • Pop <15 35% • Pop > 65 4%

36. 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

37. Religions

38. Religions

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

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

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

42. Agriculture in Southeast Asia

43. Aqua farming in Thailand

44. Thrashing the grains from the shafts in Northern Thailand

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

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