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Hall, D.G.E. History of South East Asia (Macmillan International Higher Education, 1981). Hibbert, Christopher. The dragon wakes : China and the West, 1793-1911 (1970) online free to read; Hodge, Carl Cavanagh, ed. Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (2 vol 2007) Holcombe, Charles. A History of East Asia (2d ed. Cambridge UP, 2017 ...
' South Ocean ') in China and Nan’yō (南洋) in Japan. [18] A 2nd-century world map created by Ptolemy of Alexandria names the Malay Peninsula as Chersonesus Aurea (lit. ' Golden Peninsula '). [19] The term "Southeast Asia" was first used in 1839 by American pastor Howard Malcolm in his book Travels in South-Eastern Asia.
Population pyramid of South East Asia in 2023 Population distribution of the countries of Southeast Asia (with Indonesia split into its major islands). Southeast Asia has an area of approximately 4,500,000 square kilometres (1,700,000 sq mi).
The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe. See History of the Middle East and History of the Indian Subcontinent for further details on those regions.
Founded as Kentucky Normal Technological Institute Yes South Carolina State University: Orangeburg: South Carolina: 1896 Public Founded as "Colored, Normal, Industrial, Agricultural, and Mechanical College of South Carolina" Yes Southern University at New Orleans: New Orleans: Louisiana: 1956 Public
Japan [a] is an island country in East Asia.It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.
Algeria, [e] officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, [f] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the South and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.