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The region of Asia lying southeast of the Indian subcontinent and south of China, comprising a mainland peninsula and a vast archipelago of thousands of islands extending into the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its position astride major sea lanes between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific has made it a maritime crossroads for trade and migration for millennia, and its equatorial and tropical monsoon climates support some of the world's most extensive rainforest cover.

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Region Type
Cultural Region 1
Region Type
Cultural Region 1
Region Type
Physiographic or Climatic Region 1
Region Type
Physiographic or Climatic Region 1
Area (sq km)
4,545,792 2
Mainland and archipelagic Southeast Asia combined.
Population
675,800,000 2
Recent estimate, about 8.5 percent of world population.
FAQs

Which countries make up Southeast Asia?

Ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations members, plus East Timor: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

The usual way to list Southeast Asia's countries is by membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. That group includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, with East Timor also a member. The region itself is described as lying east of the Indian subcontinent and south of China, split between a mainland part and an island part.
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Asia, Continents
Source Asia (Wikipedia)
Brunei, Countries
Cambodia, Countries
China, Countries

This source names China directly: "the Indian subcontinent and south of China, comprising a mainland peninsula and a vast archipelago of thousands of islands extending into the Pacific and Indian Oceans."

Source National Geographic Atlas of the World
Indochina, Regions

Indochina (Mainland Southeast Asia) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.

Source Indochina (Wikipedia)
Indonesia, Countries
Laos, Countries
Malaysia, Countries
Myanmar, Countries
Philippines, Countries

The Philippines is the easternmost archipelagic state of the Southeast Asia region.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
Singapore, Countries
Thailand, Countries
Timor-Leste, Countries
Vietnam, Countries

Vietnam is one of the mainland states of the Southeast Asia region.

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Source Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
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Source CooksInfo: LemongrassEncyclopaedia entry text
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Native to South-East Asia.

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Source Mango Sticky Rice (Wikipedia)Infobox: region
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Southeast Asia and South Asia

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Rambutan is native to south-east Asia, particularly Malaysia and Sumatra.

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Source CooksInfo: ShisoEncyclopaedia entry text
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Native to eastern and south-eastern Asia.

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Source Sticky rice in bamboo (Wikipedia)Infobox: region
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Southeast Asia and South Asia

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Source Purdue University NewCROP: Mandarin Orange (Fruits of Warm Climates, Julia F. Morton)Origin and Distribution
Quote, Origin and Distribution
Origin and Distribution The mandarin orange is considered a native of south-eastern Asia and the Philippines.

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Source Cooks Info: TaroEncyclopaedia entry text
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Originated in South-East Asia.

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Source Hmong (Wikipedia)Introduction
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The Hmong people are an ethnic group from East and Southeast Asia.

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873-956 CE), also known as al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā, was an Islamic scholar and the founder of Ba 'Alawi sada group which is instrumental in spreading Islam to India, Southeast Asia and Africa.

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native to Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula

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Source Wikipedia: Austroasiatic LanguagesLead sentence 1tier 2
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The Austroasiatic languages ( OSS-troh-ay-zhee-AT-ik, AWSS-) are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia.

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Source Greater North Borneo languages, WikipediaLead sentence 2
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The subgroup historically covers languages that are spoken throughout much of Borneo (excluding the areas where the Greater Barito and Tamanic languages are spoken) and Sumatra, as well as parts of Java, and Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Source Wikipedia: Hakka ChineseLead sentence 1tier 2
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Hakka is a language group of varieties of Chinese spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.

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Source Wikipedia: Hmong-Mien LanguagesLead sentence 1tier 2
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The Hmong–Mien languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia.

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The Kra–Dai languages ( KRAH-dy), also known as Tai–Kadai ( TY-kə-dy) and Daic ( DY-ik), are a language family in mainland Southeast Asia, southern China, and northeastern India.

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Source Lolo-Burmese languages, WikipediaLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
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The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma, southern China and inland areas of Southeast Asia form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.

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Source Wikipedia: Malay LanguageLead sentence 1tier 2
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Malay (UK: mə-LAY; endonym: Bahasa Melayu, Jawi script: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian pluricentric macrolanguage native to several islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula on mainland Asia.

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Source Wikipedia: Malayo-Polynesian LanguagesLead sentence 2tier 2
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The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeast Asia (Indonesia and the Philippine Archipelago) and the Pacific Ocean, with a smaller number in continental Asia in the areas near the Malay Peninsula, with Cambodia, Vietnam and the Chinese island Hainan as the northwest geographic outlier.

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Source Palaungic languages - WikipediaLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
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They are spoken in scattered pockets across an inland region of Southeast Asia, centered on the borders between Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China.

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Southern Min dialects are also spoken by descendants of emigrants from these areas in diaspora, most notably in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Southern and Central Vietnam, as well as major cities in the United States, including in San Francisco, in Los Angeles and in New York City.

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Source Western Malayo-Polynesian languages - WikipediaLead sentence 2
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This includes all Austronesian languages spoken in Madagascar, Mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Greater Sunda Islands (including smaller neighboring islands), Bali, Lombok, the western half of Sumbawa, Palau and the Mariana Islands.

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Cyprinids are most diverse in South and Southeast Asia and are entirely absent from Australia and South America.

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Sources
1. Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Introduction
    The mountain ranges in Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lesser Sunda Islands, and Timor are part of the Alpide belt, while the islands of the Philippines and Indonesia as well as Timor-Leste are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
  • Introduction (2)
    Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of mainland Australia, which is a part of Oceania.
  • Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Lead paragraph
    The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with both heavy seismic and volcanic activities.
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2. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Southeast Asia
  • Associated With: Vietnam
  • Associated With: Philippines
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National Geographic Atlas of the World
National Geographic Society, 2019
Wikidata: Southeast Asia
Wikidata Q11708, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source
Asia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Asia, Geography section, Main regions subsection
Quote, Associated With: Asia, Geography section, Main regions subsection
North Asia (Siberia), Central Asia, West Asia (the Middle East or Near East and part of the Caucasus), South Asia (Indian subcontinent), East Asia (Far East), Southeast Asia (East Indies and Indochina).
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Indochina (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Indochina, Lead section
Quote, Associated With: Indochina, Lead section
Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina and the Indochinese Peninsula; abbreviated MSEA) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.
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