C.J. Cox Instructor

1. World Regional Geography Southeast Asia C.J. Cox Instructor Week #10

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 • Irriwaddy • 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

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

31. 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%

35. 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

36. Religions

37. Religions

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

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

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

41. Agriculture in Southeast Asia

42. Aqua farming in Thailand

43. Thrashing the grains from the shafts in Northern Thailand

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

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