MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES
- Fragmented Region – Lots of islands and dispersed
- Dominated by high elevations, tectonic movements, and tropical climates
- Political Instabilities and conflict
- Clustered Population patterns around ports
- Cultural Fragmentation due to being fragmented regions
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY
- Southeast Asia has extremes in economic activity-from substance farming to the high-tech software industry.
- Some of the poorest countries are located here: Laos and Vietnam
- The main economic activity Is agriculture
- Many Nations industrialized in the 1960s
- ASEAN: The Association Of South East Asian Nations is an alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region.
RESOURCES
- A LOT OF OIL!
- Coal
- Minerals
- Strait of Malacca, oil travels through
DOUBLE CROPPING
- Harvesting multiple crops in the same year
- Increases income and food security
Transportation
Natural Disasters
- INDONESIA 2004, Caused by a 9.2 earthquake a tsunami decimated Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Caused 229,866 deaths, and a 66% reduction in the fishing fleet and industrial infrastructure in coastal regions destroyed
- CYCLONE NARGIS: BURMA 2008: Caused 146,000+ deaths but we don’t know due to the dictatorship of the country, and caused over 10 billion in damages
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