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Insular South Asia is an ill-defined region, consisting at a minimum of all islands in the Southern region of Asia, principally Sri Lanka, the Maldives and the Laccadives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other sources also apply the term to the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia encompassing Brunei , Indonesia , East Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore ...
The terms Island Southeast Asia and Insular Southeast Asia are sometimes given the same meaning as Maritime Southeast Asia. [ a ] Other definitions restrict Island Southeast Asia to just the islands between mainland Southeast Asia and the continental shelf of Australia and New Guinea.
Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or "peninsula of gold"), [1] are also thought to refer to insular Southeast Asia.
Islamic ideas arrived in insular Southeast Asia as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim societies in the area emerged by the 13th century. [11] [12] [13] The era of European colonialism, early Modernity and the Cold War era revealed the reality of limited political significance for the various Southeast Asian polities.
Ancient Southern East Asian ancestry significantly contributed to the genetic makeup of modern populations in East Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia, Insular Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and is commonly associated with the Neolithic expansion of early Austronesian and Austroasiatic speakers that occurred more than 4,000 years ago.
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago.The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
The territorial extent of the Kingdom of Funan (1st to 7th century) covers much of mainland Southeast Asia including present-day Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Funan (1st–7th century) was the first kingdom in Cambodian history and it was also the first Indianized kingdom that prospered in Southeast Asia. Both Hinduism and ...
The bank, ranked No. 10 on the Southeast Asia 500, reported a net profit of 2.6 billion Singapore dollars ($1.9 billion) for the final quarter of 2024, a 10% year-on-year increase.