Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia, is the southeastern part of Asia. There are 11 countries in this region. All the countries in Southeast Asia are a part of ASEAN, except East Timor. Some of the countries are mostly on the Asian mainland; they were formerly called Indochina. The others are only on islands. All of the countries in Southeast Asia are in the tropics except for the northernmost areas of Myanmar, which is in the subtropics.

These are the countries and territories in Southeast Asia:

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• Christmas Island
• Cocos (Keeling) Islands
• East Timor (or Timor-Leste)
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar (formerly Burma)
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam

The United Nations also includes the region of Northeast India and Southeast Bangladesh traditionally, due to ethnicity similarities and culturally as part of Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia Media

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  A political map of Southeast Asia

• The depiction of a bull found in the Lubang Jeriji Saleh, Indonesia, in 2018, is considered among the world’s oldest known figurative paintings. The painting is estimated to have been created around 40,000 to 52,000 years ago, or even earlier.

• Gunung Padang, the largest megalithic site in Southeast Asia.

• The Austroasiatic and Austronesian expansions into Maritime Southeast Asia.

• Bronze drum from Sông Đà, northern Vietnam. Mid-1st millennium BC

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  Hinduism expansion in Asia, from its heartland in Indian Subcontinent, to the rest of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, started circa 1st century marked with the establishment of early Hindu settlements and polities in Southeast Asia.

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  Borobudur temple in Central Java, Indonesia

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  Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Related pages

• Brunei
• Cambodia
• East Timor
• Indonesia
• Laos
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Far East (Usually referring to the 6 countries of East Asia and 11 countries of Southeast Asia collectively)