East and Southeast Asia Flashcards
(22 cards)
This country has the highest population in the world.
China
This mountainous island nation was a province of China for hundreds of years.
Taiwan
This nation is also known as the people’s republic of China.
Taiwan
This country is famous for Genghis Khan and the Mongol empire in the early second millenium CE.
Mongolia
About one fifth of this country’s people live in its capital, Ulaanbaatar.
Mongolia
This is a very large communist nation.
China
Because of an insufficient amount of farmland, farmers in this nation practice intensive agriculture.
Japan
This country has 4 main islands in addition to thousands of smaller ones.
Japan
This country is strongly influenced by China, and even used their complicated writing system until the 1400s when scholars came up with the basic, 28 letter alphabet known as Hangul.
South Korea
Most people from this country have one of two last names.
South Korea
The people of this communist nation are very private about what goes on there.
North Korea
This country suffers from poverty somewhat because the government devotes lots of resources to the military.
North Korea
This country was formerly known as Burma.
Myanmar
This is the only SE Asian country that wasn’t ever a European colony
Thailand
Most people from this country are from the Malay ethnic group and practice Islam.
Malaysia
This nation is a very economically stable city-state.
Singapore
Most citizens of this country live in rural areas, growing crops in the fertile soil of the banks of the Mekong River.
Laos
One of the Asian Tigers, this country exports many valuable natural resources including coal, petroleum, and many metals.
Vietnam
This is the biggest Muslim country.
Indonesia
This tiny Island nation is slightly larger than Delaware.
Brunei
This is the newest country in SE Asia, having gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002.
East Timor
This country contains about 7,000 islands in the South China Sea.
The Phillipines
