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Maritime Southeast Asia is the name given to the island nations in Southeast Asia. Nations in this region include: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... World map depicting Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago is a vast archipelago located between mainland Southeastern Asia (Indochina) and Australia. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
Malaysia - two Malaysian states are on the island of Borneo.
East Timor - the 21st century's first independent nation, shares the island Timor with Indonesia.
In terms of the demography of this region, people are predominantly from Austronesian subgroupings, and all correspondingly speak western Malayo-Polynesian languages. Also, this region of Southeast Asia shares more social and cultural ties with other Austronesian peoples in the Pacific than with the peoples of Mainland Southeast Asia. Borneo (left) and Sulawesi. ... The Malay Peninsula (Malay: Semenanjung Tanah Melayu) is a major peninsula located in Southeast Asia. ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ... World map depicting Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago is a vast archipelago located between mainland Southeastern Asia (Indochina) and Australia. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). ... Borneo (left) and Sulawesi. ... Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea south of China. ... The Philippine Sea is a part of the western Pacific Ocean bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas to the east and Palau to the south. ... Map of Timor Timor Island from space, November 1989. ... The Austronesian people are a population group in Oceania and Southeast Asia who speak or had ancestors who spoke one of the Austronesian languages. ... The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages used by some 351 million speakers. ... Mainland Southeast Asia is a name that can be given to the Indochinese peninsula or Indochina in Southeast Asia. ...
The main religions in this region are Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and traditional Animism. Islam (Arabic: ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... Christianity is a monotheistic[1] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. ... Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, which is also a philosophy and a system of psychology. ... Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Animism is a belief system that does not accept the separation of body and soul, of spirit from matter. ...
Asia is traditionally defined as part of the landmass of Africa-Eurasia – with the western portion of the latter occupied by Europe – lying east of the Suez Canal, east of the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian and Black Seas.
The boundary between Asia and Europe is commonly considered to run through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea near Kara, Russia.
Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum and iron.
Yet SoutheastAsia is losing its rainforests faster than any equatorial region, and has the fewest remaining primary rainforests.
SoutheastAsia is a 3,100 mile long chain of about 20,000 islands strung between Asia and Australia.
For the plants and animals and the myriad species that inhabit the rainforests of SoutheastAsia it may be too late and there is no "forest refugia" left from which to replenish their species.
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