SOUTHEASTERN ASIA
Southeast Asia spans the region between the Indian subcontinent to the west and China to the north, encompassing a mainland peninsula and a vast archipelago that extends through the tropics toward Australia. The region has been a crossroads of global trade for millennia, with Indian, Chinese, Arab, and later European influences leaving a layered cultural, religious, and architectural record across its diverse territories.
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