Ch. 10 Flashcards
Indonesia - religion
Muslim
Indonesia - location
On the equator
Thailand - independence
Remained independent; no European powers
Southeast Asia - ethnicity distribution
Chinese in Singapore, China
Boundary evolution
Definition - the written legal description of a boundary between two countries or territories.
Delimitation - a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation.
Demarkation - the actual placing of a political boundary on the cultural landscape.
Compacted / elongated / fragmented States
Compacted - circular, oval, or rectangular territory
Elongated - long and narrow in that its length is at least SIX times greater than its average width.
Fragmented
Domino Theory
Country that becomes unstabilized with destabilized neighboring countries.
Saigon - Ho Chi Minh
Capital of S. Vietnam
Southeast Asia - communism
Communism did not spread here.
Angkor Wat
Hindu ruins in Cambodia
Singapore - population / size / economy
Mostly Chinese
It is a city-state
Very strong economy
Agriculture in Southeast Asia
Difficult because of tropical soils.
Indonesia - population
Highest Muslim population