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Maritime Southeast Asia

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Maritime Southeast Asia is the island and peninsular portion of Southeast Asia, comprising Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and East Timor, as distinguished from the mainland states of the Indochinese peninsula. Spanning tens of thousands of islands across the Malay Archipelago, the world's largest, the region shares a common Austronesian linguistic and cultural heritage along with a history shaped by centuries of maritime trade linking China, India and the Arab world, and by European colonization under the Dutch, Spanish, British and Portuguese.

Facts
Classification
Region Type
Maritime Grouping 1
Region Type
Maritime Grouping 1
Area (sq km)
2,870,000 2
Population
540,000,000 2
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Plate Tectonics, Physical Processes
Source Maritime Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
Volcanism, Physical Processes
Source Maritime Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
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Ginger

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Laksa

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Lemongrass

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Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidsontier 1
Malaysian Cuisine

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Source Malaysian Cuisine (Wikipedia)tier 3
Satay

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Source Satay (Wikipedia)tier 3
Malay nobility

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Source Malay nobility (Wikipedia)Lead section
Quote, Lead section
The Malay nobility comprises both hereditary and non-hereditary titles that have been integral to the Malay kingdoms of Maritime Southeast Asia since the 13th century.

Found There

Austronesian

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Greater North Borneo languages

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Malay

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Source Wikipedia: Malay LanguageLead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
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.
Sources
1. Maritime Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationIntroduction
Quote, Introduction
The 16th-century term "East Indies" and the later 19th-century term "Malay Archipelago" are also used to refer to Maritime Southeast Asia.
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2. Maritime Southeast Asia (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, area_km2
    2870000
  • Culture and demographics, 2017
    As of 2017, there were over 540 million people living in the region, with the most populated island being Java.
  • Shaped By: Volcanism, Formation statement for target 23656
    Geologically, the archipelago is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, producing many volcanoes, especially in Java, Sumatra, and the Lesser Sunda Islands region, where most volcanoes over 3,000 m (9,800 ft) are situated.
  • Shaped By: Plate Tectonics, Formation statement for target 23636
    Tectonic uplifts also produced large mountains, including the highest in Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, with a height of 4,095.2 m (13,436 ft) and Puncak Jaya on Papua, Indonesia at 4,884 m (16,024 ft).
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Wikidata: Maritime Southeast Asia
Wikidata Q2919361, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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