Question

1. What two older terms were once used for the region of Southeast Asia (both of which

referred mostly to the peninsular portion of this region)?
2. Most of the population of peninsular Southeast Asia resides along three rivers. Which
river is in Myanmar and enters the Andaman Sea near Yangon? Which river is in
Thailand and enters the Gulf of Thailand near Bangkok?
3. Which Southeast Asian river is the most significant because it connects all of the
countries of peninsular Southeast Asia and the ethnically diverse province of Yunnan in
Southwest China?
4. What name is used to refer to the area along the Mekong where Myanmar, Thailand,
and Laos meet? This area was once infamous for the production of what drug?
5. What group of islands at the center of the Coral Triangle in Indonesia is believed to
have the highest recorded diversity of marine life on the planet?
6. What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)?
7. What Southeast Asian country gets hit more often by typhoons during the Pacific
northern hemisphere summer months?

Answer 1

The two older terms that were

once used for the region of

Southeast Asia, particularly the

peninsular portion, are Indochina

and Indostan.