Duplicate of Cultural Geography Chapter 15 Review

What kind of government does Thailand have?

Short Answer start: Which Southeast Asian country is the only one that remained free of European colonialism?

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

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

Last Short Answer: By what name was Thailand formerly known?

Match each country with its capital city: Laos

Match each country with its capital city: Thailand

What is the only landlocked country of Southeast Asia?

What does the name Buddha mean?

The leader of Khmer Rouge was

Match each country with its capital city: Vietnam

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

Five of the top ten rice-producing countries of the world are in Southeast Asia.

Elephant trainers in Thailand are called

Cambodia consists of primarily low, flat plains.

Match each country with its capital city: Singapore

What name is given to the mainland portion of Southeast Asia?

Match each country with its capital city: Malaysia

Match each country with its capital city: Myanmar

What is the largest country of Southeast Asia?

Myanmar's history has been a succession of military dictatorships.

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

Thailand has one of the weakest economies in Indochina.

From which country do most of the immigrants to Southeast Asia come?

The climate of Southeast Asia has little effect on everyday life in the region.

Which Communist leader defeated the French in 1954.

Match each country with its capital city: Indonesia

Match each country with its capital city: Philippines

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

Which major river cuts through the northern part of Vietnam, emptying into the Gulf of Tonkin?

Where did Communist Vietnamese forces defeat French colonial forces, effectively ending French colonialism in Indochina?

Southeast Asia is about half as large as the forty-eight contiguous states of the United States.

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

Vietnam's chief seaport is

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

What is a large group of islands called?

Which Communist organization took over Cambodia in 1975 and proceded to commit human rights atrocities?