30 Facts About Southeastern Asia

Mainland Southeast Southeastern Asia is in the Northern Hemisphere, whilst East Timor and the southern portion of Indonesia lie south of the Equator.

Southeast Southeastern Asia was home to one of the few regions across Eurasia that did not get subsumed by the Mongol Empire.

Region, together with part of South Southeastern Asia, was well known by Europeans as the East Indies or simply the Indies until the 20th century.

The mainland section of Southeast Southeastern Asia was referred to as Indochina by European geographers due to its location between China and the Indian subcontinent and its having cultural influences from both neighboring regions.

The maritime section of Southeast Southeastern Asia is known as the Malay Archipelago, a term derived from the European concept of a Malay race.

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Term "Southeast Southeastern Asia" was first used in 1839 by American pastor Howard Malcolm in his book Travels in South-Eastern Southeastern Asia.

Southeast Southeastern Asia is geographically divided into two subregions, namely Mainland Southeast Southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago.

In present-day mainland Southeast Southeastern Asia, Theravada is still the dominant branch of Buddhism, practiced by the Thai, Burmese, and Cambodian Buddhists.

Mahayana Buddhism established presence in Maritime Southeast Southeastern Asia, brought by Chinese monks during their transit in the region en route to Nalanda.

In present-day Southeast Southeastern Asia, Vietnam is the only country where its folk religion makes up the plurality.

Elsewhere, there are ethnic groups in Southeast Southeastern Asia that resisted conversion and still retain their original animist beliefs, such as the Dayaks in Kalimantan, the Igorots in Luzon, and the Shans in eastern Myanmar.

Regular trade between the ships sailing east from the Indian Ocean and south from mainland Southeastern Asia provided goods in return for natural products, such as honey and hornbill beaks from the islands of the archipelago.

Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Southeastern Asia and is the largest archipelago in the world by size .

Geographically, Southeast Southeastern Asia is bounded to the southeast by the Australian continent, the boundary between these two regions is most often considered to run through Wallacea.

Maritime Southeast Southeastern Asia was often grouped with Australia and Oceania in the mid to late 1800s, rather than with mainland Southeastern Asia.

Climate in Southeast Southeastern Asia is mainly tropical–hot and humid all year round with plentiful rainfall.

The majority of Southeast Southeastern Asia has a wet and dry season caused by seasonal shifts in winds or monsoon.

Southeast Southeastern Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the world.

In reaction, several countries in Southeast Southeastern Asia signed the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution to combat haze pollution.

The rest of Southeast Southeastern Asia is still heavily dependent on agriculture, but Vietnam is notably making steady progress in developing its industrial sectors.

Stock markets in Southeast Southeastern Asia have performed better than other bourses in the Southeastern Asia-Pacific region in 2010, with the Philippines' PSE leading the way with 22 percent growth, followed by Thailand's SET with 21 percent and Indonesia's JKSE with 19 percent.

The second-largest ethnic group in Southeast Southeastern Asia is Vietnamese with around 86 million population, mainly inhabiting in Vietnam, thus forming a significant minority in neighboring Cambodia and Laos.

In October 2019, the number of Christians, both Catholic and Protestant in Southeast Southeastern Asia, reached 156 million, of which 97 million came from the Philippines, 29 million came from Indonesia, 11 million came from Vietnam, and the rest came from Malaysia, Myanmar, East Timor, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei.

Christians can be found throughout Southeast Southeastern Asia; they are in the majority in East Timor and the Philippines, Southeastern Asia's largest Christian nation.

Culture in Southeast Southeastern Asia is very diverse: on mainland Southeast Southeastern Asia, the culture is a mix of Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Thai and Vietnamese cultures.

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Dance in much of Southeast Southeastern Asia includes movement of the hands as well as the feet, to express the dance's emotion and meaning of the story that the ballerina is going to tell the audience.

The arts and literature in some of Southeast Southeastern Asia are quite influenced by Hinduism, which was brought to them centuries ago.

The Tai, coming late into Southeast Southeastern Asia, brought with them some Chinese artistic traditions, but they soon shed them in favour of the Khmer and Mon traditions, and the only indications of their earlier contact with Chinese arts were in the style of their temples, especially the tapering roof, and in their lacquerware.

Traditional music in Southeast Southeastern Asia is as varied as its many ethnic and cultural divisions.

The alphabets of Southeast Southeastern Asia tended to be abugidas, until the arrival of the Europeans, who used words that ended in consonants, not just vowels.