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Geography of Southeast Asia

  • Mainland Southeast AsiaIn 1804, a Danish-French geographer named Conrad Malte-Brun wrote about the area as Indo-China. He used this phrase to describe the region lying between…
  • East IndiesA 1606 map of the East Indies shows a vast expanse of islands and coastlines stretching from India to New Guinea. Portuguese explorers coined the term Indies…