GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Maritime Southeast Asia, Tibetan Plateau, Overseas Chinese
4 Dec 2017
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Major geographic qualities: extends from peninsular mainland to offshore archipelagos, high relief, volcanic activity and earthquakes, and tropical climates, majority of population in indonesia and philippines. Importance of mekong river source in china and borders or crosses 5 se asian states: singapore leading world city in se asia, port in singapore is the world"s 2nd largest shipping container port. A geographic overview: peninsulas and islands, bounded by india and china. Influence of arabs and arab commerce: european colonization and imperialism, buffer zone between powerful adversaries, shatter belt fractured politically, culturally, physically, and economically, archipelago (island chain) Indonesia se asia"s giant: territory and population, mainland se asia indochina and the west, vietnam, laos, cambodia, thailand, myanmar. Insular se asia: malaysia, indonesia, philippines, brunei, the pacific ring of fire, 2004 indian ocean tsunami, caused by earthquake off western indonesia, killed more than 230,000, volcanic eruptions on islands, high relief dominates on mainland and islands.
