Southeast Asia

"Southeast Asia is very beautiful, and quite tropical as sure it is, as long as most of them ignore typhoons that are prone to them. However, Vietnam would take its turn to destroy my country and my village, that means it would betray the ASEAN soon."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Southeast Asian Dilemma

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and Bay of Bengal, to the east by Oceania and Pacific Ocean, and to the south by Australia and Indian Ocean. The region is the only part of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere, although the majority of it is in the Northern Hemisphere. In contemporary definition, Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions:


 * 1) Mainland Southeast Asia, also known historically as Indochina, comprising Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and West Malaysia.