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2. MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES  A FRAGMENTED REALM OF NUMEROUS ISLAND COUNTRIES AND PENINSULAS  PHYSIOGRAPHY DOMINATED BY HIGH RELIEF, CRUSTAL INSTABILITY, AND TROPICAL CLIMATES  EXHIBITS CHARACTERISTICS OF A SHATTER BELT  POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND CONFLICT  CLUSTERED POPULATION PATTERNS  POOR INTRAREGIONAL COMMINICATIONS  CULTURAL FRAGMENTATION (COMPLEX ETHNIC, LINGUISTIC, AND RELIGIOUS PATTERNS)

3. SOUTHEAST ASIA

4. ETHNICITY

5. COLONIAL SPHERES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

6. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY  A SYSTEMATIC FIELD OF GEOGRAPHY THAT FOCUSES ON THE SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR  KEY TERMS –SUPRANATIONALISM –BALKANIZATION –IRREDENTISM –GEOPOLITICS –DEVOLUTION  FRIEDRICH RATZEL (1844 - 1904)

7. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (CONTINUED)  STATE TERRITORIAL MORPHOLOGY –COMPACT- CAMBODIA –PROTRUDED (EXTENDED)- THAILAND –ELONGATED (ATTENUATED)- VIETNAM –FRAGMENTED- PHILLIPINES –PERFORATED- SOUTH AFRICA  THE IMPACT OF SHAPE?

8. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY (CONTINUED)  BOUNDARIES –DEFINITION VS DELIMITATION VS DEMARCATION –MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONS  GEOMETRIC  PHYSIOGRAPHIC  ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHIC –GENETIC CLASSIFICATIONS  ANTECEDENT  SUBSEQUENT  SUPERIMPOSED  RELICT

9. GENETIC CLASSIFICATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

10. ANTECEDENT INDONESIA MALAYSIA BRUNEI

11. SUPERIMPOSED INDONESIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA

12. RELICT BOUNDARY VIETNAM FORMER NORTH FORMER SOUTH

13. SUBSEQUENT BOUNDARY LAOS CHINA SOUTH CHINA SEA VIETNAM

14. SHAPES OF STATES

15. COMPACT STATE CAMBODIA  A POLITICO-GEOGRAPHIC TERM TO DESCRIBE A STATE THAT POSSESSES A CIRCULAR, OVAL, OR RECTANGULAR TERRITORY IN WHICH THE DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER TO ANY POINT ON THE BOUNDARY EXHIBITS LITTLE VARIATION  CAMBODIA, URUGUAY, AND POLAND ARE EXAMPLES.

16. ELONGATED STATE VIETNAM  A STATE WHOSE TERRITORY IS DECIDEDLY LONG AND NARROW; ITS LENGTH IS AT LEAST SIX TIMES GREATER THAN ITS AVERAGE WIDTH  CHILE, VIETNAM, AND LAOS ARE CLASSIC EXAMPLES.

17. PROTRUDED STATE THAILAND  A TYPE OF TERRITORIAL SHAPE THAT EXHIBITS A NARROW, ELONGATED LAND EXTENSION LEADING AWAY FROM THE MAIN BODY OF THE TERRITORY  THAILAND AND MYANMAR ARE LEADING EXAMPLES.

18. FRAGMENTED STATE  A STATE WHOSE TERRITORY CONSISTS OF SEVERAL SEPARATED PARTS, NOT A CONTIGUOUS WHOLE  THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS MAY BE ISOLATED FROM EACH OTHER BY THE LAND AREA OF OTHER STATES OR BY INTERNATIONAL WATERS.  PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA ARE ALSO EXAMPLES. MALAYSIA

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