Ch 15 Southeast Asia

What does the name Buddha mean?

The Climate of SEAsia has very little effect of everyday life on the region

Thailand has one of the weakest economies in Indochina

The name given to the mainland portion of seAsia

Vietnam's chief seaport is

Which country is the financial and high-tech hub of SE Asia?

Immigrants to SEAsia mostly come from

Archipelago is

Myanmar's history has been a successon of military dictatorships

Where did Communist Vietnamese forces defeat French colonial forces

What kind of government does Thailand have?

Malay Archipelago consists of Malaysia, singapore, indonesia, Brunei, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines

Thailand's former name

Five of the top ten rice-producing countries of the world are in SEAsia

Which communist leader defeated the French in 1954?

What is a large group of islands called?

SEAsia is half the size of the contiguous United States

Cambodia consists of primarily low, flat plains

What is the name of the place where the borders of Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand meet?

What river cuts into northern part of Vietnam emptying into Gulf of Tonkin

At which parallel was Vietnam divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam?

What is the only landlocked country of SE Asia?

What is the area of the Pacific that experiences numerous, regular earthquakes, tsunamis,&volcanic activity

What is the largest country of Southeast Asia?

Communist organisation that took over Cambodia in 1975 and commited human rights atrocities

The leader of the Khmer Roughe was

Elephant trainers in Thailand are called

Cambodia served as a buffer zone btwn the colonial forces in Vietnam and Laos

What was the name of the guerrilla group that played a big part in conquering South Vietnam for Communists?

Which SE Asian country is the only one that remained free of European colonialism?

According to Buddhism, one can reach a state of complete happiness and rest called