Distribution of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia

There are 1 1 countries in Southeast Asia:

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei and East Timor.

East Timor, the youngest country in Southeast Asia, became independent from Indonesia by referendum on May 20, 2002.

Southeast Asia has a total area of 4.47 million square kilometers. The total population is about 530 million, mostly yellow people, including Sino-Tibetan, Hindi, South Asian, Austronesian and other ethnic groups. Among them, Javanese, Jing (Vietnamese), Thai, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, Sulu and others have a large population. There are about 30 million overseas Chinese, which is one of the regions with the largest number of overseas Chinese in the world. The proportion of Chinese in Singapore is more than 70%, followed by Malaysia, accounting for about 30%. The population distribution in Southeast Asia is uneven, mainly concentrated in coastal plains, plains on both sides of rivers, estuarine deltas and islands, while the rainforest area is sparsely populated.

The largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia is Indonesia, with an area of about 65.438+0.9 million square kilometers and a population of about 65.438+0.2 billion. It is a veritable Southeast Asian country with the fourth largest population in the world, second only to China, India and the United States. The smallest country is Singapore, and a country is a city, with an area of only over 600 square kilometers, and the length and width of east, west, north and south are only about 30 kilometers. You can drive around the country in one day. Although Singapore is the smallest, it has a population of 40 1 000, much more than Brunei, which covers an area of 5,767 square kilometers. With a population of more than 300,000, Brunei is the least populous country in Southeast Asia.