East and Southeast Asia

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Where area has of East Asia has the densest population?	Eastern and southern Japan, western Korea and Taiwan
Where does 70% of the Japanese population live in the country?	On the coastline between Tokyo and Osaka
What was the impact of China's one-child-policy up to 2001?	Only slowed the huge growth of the population
What is the capital of Mongolia?	Ulan Bator
How much of China's population is Han?	92%
Japan is predominately what ethnic mix?	Asian continental and Pacific island
What do the North and South Koreans have in common?	They have common ethnicity and history
Until the mid-1900s, Chinese cities were important because they were what?	Markets and administrative centers
What was the title of the 1993 World Bank report on East Asian economic development?	"East Asian Miracle
In 1867, where was the capital city of Japan moved to?	Edo, later called Tokyo
What are the names of Japan's four main islands?	Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu
What was created between North and South Korea in 1953 after the armistice?	Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Under what dynasty did Admiral Chen-Ho expand Chinese naval power and to where?	Ming Dynasty, beyond India to the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, eastern Africa and Madagascar
What type of agriculture allowed families to decide which crops to grow in 1980s China?	Household Responsibility System
Who are China's top three trade partners in the early 2000s?	United States, Japan and Taiwan
What is jidoka?	Automation with human intelligence, combining high quality, short delivery times, and low-cost production
What is kaizen?	Continuous growth
Who famously calculated the population rate change after strictly implementing the One Child Policy?	Song Jian
Who has the largest metropolitan economy in the world?	Taiwan
Gender equality was most held in which country?	China
What groups notably still deal with the harshest discrimination in Japan?	Burakumin (social outcasts), Ainu (ethnic minorities) Koreans (foreign ethnic minorities)
What are the major rivers on the Asian continent?	Irrawaday and Salween Rivers - Myanmar Mekong River - China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand Red River - Vietnam
What and where is the "Wallace Line"?	Alfred Russell Wallace, a botanist, created this line between Sulawesi and Borneo. It created a division of the region's biogeography
Where was the Khmer Empire's center starting in the 800s?	The Mon and Khmer people were in the center in the north of Cambodia
What was the agreement between the United Kingdom and Holland?	The United Kingdom took Malaya and the Dutch took the East Indies
What human rights issues occurred by the Khmer Rouge?	They ordered the killing of 1.7 million people between 1975 - 1979, and many were put on trial in 2001
What is the major global city-region in Southeast Asia?	Singapore
What is the only country in Southeast Asia was not a colony?	Thailand
How has Ho Chi Minh been able to develop a marketplace economy?	Exports of rice now third in world One of largest coffee production Change crops to rubber, peppers, cotton and hybrid corn
What are the main islands of Indonesia? How are those countries divided?	Kalimantan Sumatra Irian Java Sulawesi Java
What is the newest country in Southeast Asia and who formerly colonized it?	East Timor was colonized by Portugal
What is the majority religion in East Timor?	90% of the country is Catholic
When did Thailand propose a free trade agreement in Southeast Asia?	1991, as part of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
What is the largest body of water besides the oceans?	South China Sea

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