Southeast Asia
Land, Economy, and People
Landforms
• Many of the islands in SE Asia are made up of
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archipelago’s.
Indonesia is made up of 13,000 islands and the
Philippines are made up of 7,000 islands.
The islands of SE Asia were formed by volcanoes
and earthquakes making it the “Ring of Fire.”
Tsunamis are common in SE Asia.
Mainland SE Asia is south of China.
Climate
• Most of SE Asia has a Tropical Rainforest or
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Tropical Savanna climate.
The northern part of mainland SE Asia has a
humid subtropical climate.
SE Asia receives summer and winter monsoons.
Some areas receive multiple monsoons.
SE Asia has the 2nd largest rainforest region in
the world.
There are typhoons in SE Asia.
Which direction do the summer monsoons go?
Describe what the winter monsoons are like.
Monsoons
Typhoons
Rainforests
Rainforest in Vietnam
Natural Resources
Natural Resources
Lumber, medicines,
Bamboo, and
chemicals are made
from things found
in the Rainforest.
Oil
Natural Gas
Farming
• Almost half of SE Asia’s people do
commercial or subsistence farming.
• Many people produce cash crops such as
coffee, tea, sugarcane, fruits, or rice.
• Rice grows best when planted in water,
which is called a paddy.
• People grow rice on terraced fields.
Religion
• Most of the mainland SE Asia is Buddhist.
• Indonesia has the largest Muslim
population in the world.
• Most people in the Philippines are
Christian.
Culture
• Vietnam and Laos are communist countries.
• The biggest challenge in this region was the
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Vietnam War in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
During the Vietnam War North Vietnam tried to
take over South Vietnam.
Today Vietnam is one communist country.
Singapore is the most densely populated country
in the world.