Southeast Asia

Which of the following dominates Southeast Asian physiography?

High mountains and valleys

Which of the following statements about the Southeast Asian Realm is FALSE?

The major river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia are sparsely populated

Southeast Asia, compared to the South Asia realm, is

Less densely populated and more urbanized

Half of Southeast Asia’s population lives in which two countries?

Indonesia and the Philippines

Large-scale population clusters in Southeast Asia exist in all but which of the following areas?

Interior highland regions

Agriculture in insular Southeast Asia is limited by

Generally infertile tropical soils

Which country-river association is incorrect?

Laos-Liao

A country in Southeast Asia that remained an independent state throughout the colonial era was

Thailand

Which of the following was NOT a part of French Indochina?

Siam

Which of the following European colonizer-Southeast Asian colony associations is incorrect?

Netherlands-Brunei

Which of the following countries was once part of British India?

Myanmar (Burma)

Which of the following islands was NOT colonized by the Dutch?

Luzon

Which of the following broke away from Malaysia to become a sovereign city-state in Southeast Asia in 1965?

Singapore

What is the largest Muslim country in the world in terms of population?

Indonesia

Which ethnic group forms a significant part of the commercial class in Southeast Asia?

Chinese

To what religion do most of the people in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia adhere?

Buddhism

Which of the following political entities is NOT located on the island of Borneo?

East Timor

During which stage is a boundary actually marked on the ground?

Demarcation

What concept describes how destabilization in one area will eventually affect neighboring areas?

Domino theory

Which of the following is an example of a relict boundary?

North and South Vietnam

What term describes a boundary developing contemporaneously with a cultural landscape, and adjusting to linguistic, religious, and ethnic breaks?

Subsequent

The genetic classification of boundaries interprets a boundary’s function by examining

The evolution of the boundary as part of the cultural landscape they partition

Which country is the best example of an elongated state territorial configuration?

Vietnam

Saigon has been renamed after _______, the communist leader who founded modern Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh

Which country does NOT border Vietnam?

Thailand

What are the two core areas of Vietnam?

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

What is the Southeast Asian nation that exhibits the greatest degree of compactness?

Cambodia

Angkor Wat is located in which country?

Cambodia

The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million people in an attempt to change the society of

Cambodia

The poorest state of the former Indochina is

Cambodia

Which of the following country-capital associations is false?

Laos and Hanoi

Three countries located on the Malay Peninsula are

Malaysia, Thailand, and Myanmar

What Southeast Asian state is the best example of a protruded state?

Thailand

Where does the vast majority of Thailand’s Muslim population live?

Border zone with Malaysia

The insular region of Southeast Asia does NOT include

Laos

What Southeast Asian country is the best example of a prorupted state?

Myanmar

Which of the following is a former British colony?

Myanmar

What are the two states of East Malaysia?

Sarawak and Sabah

What is the name of the small, oil-rich Islamic sultanate of insular Southeast Asia?

Brunei

Which of the following best defines an archipelago?

A chain of islands

Indonesia is a state located

On more than 17,000 islands

On which island is the majority of Indonesia’s population located?

Jawa (Java)

Which island is the westernmost island of Indonesia?

Sumatera

Which Indonesian island borders the Strait of Malacca?

Sumatera

Which island in insular Southeast Asia is known as a mini-continent?

Borneo

The Philippines’ two main islands in terms of population and size are

Mindanao and Luzon

Where is the Muslim stronghold in the Philippines located?

The Sulu archipelago

The world-city commanding access to the strategic Strait of Malacca is Hong Kong.

False

Like Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia is a region of great cultural complexity that merits the label shatter belt.

True

Southeast Asia can be considered a buffer zone as well as a shatter belt.

True

The total population of Southeast Asia is relatively modest compared to the populations of India and China.

True

The population of Southeast Asia tends to be evenly spread across the realm’s fragmented land area.

False

The island of Jawa is one of the world’s most intensively cultivated areas, owing to its rich volcanic soils.

True

The mountains to the north of mainland Southeast Asia have prevented governments from exerting complete control.

True

The Khmer people form the majority of the population in Cambodia.

True

The term Malaysia refers only to those former British protectorates on the mainland.

False

The United States acquired the Philippines from Japan at the end of World War II.

False

Dutch colonialism in its East Indies possessions eventually united over 17,000 islands into one state.

True

The Philippines’ last colonial master, which granted the country independence in 1946, was the United States.

True

The island of Singapore was formerly a British colony.

True

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country.

True

In Singapore, the Chinese constitute 74 percent of the population

True

In boundary creation, the delimitation stage precedes the demarcation stage.

True

Antecedent boundaries were defined and delimited before the present-day human landscape emerge.

True

Subsequent boundaries are part of an ongoing process as the human landscape evolves.

True

The boundary between Singapore and Malaysia is known as a subsequent boundary.

False

Vietnam constitutes an elongated state.

True

Cochin China was the name of the French colonial units centered on the Mekong Delta

True

More than three-quarters of Vietnam’s population was born after the Indochina War.

True

North and South Vietnam were united in 1975.

True

Vietnam has more than one core area.

True

Cambodia is a good example of an elongated state.

False

Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country

True

The heart of Thailand lies in the Chao Phraya River Basin.

True

Myanmar, unlike other Southeast Asian nations, does not have any ethnic minorities.

False

The Kayin (Karen), a people living in the protrusion of Burma, wish to create an autonomous area within Burma.

True

East Malaysia includes Sarawak and Sabah.

True

Singapore lies on the Strait of Malacca.

True

People of Chinese descent make up a majority of the population of Singapore.

True

In Singapore, Muslims constitute more than 75 percent of the population.

False

Singapore has an authoritarian government and a market economy.

True

A state whose national territory consists of two or more separated parts is termed protruded.

False

The island of Java became the focus of Dutch colonial administration in Southeast Asia.

True

Indonesia has ended its policy of transmigration, which involved the resettlement of Jawanese to other islands.

True

Manila is located on the island of Mindanao.

False

There is a Muslim-based insurgency in the southern islands of the Philippines.

True

The two largest islands in the Philippines are Luzon and Mindanao.

True