Cambodia's climate, like that of the rest of Southeast Asia is dominated by monsoons, which are known as tropical wet and dry because of the distinctly marked seasonal differences.

Many people of Chaoshan origin, also known as Teochiu or Teochew people, have settled in Southeast Asia, especially Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand ; influences they bring can be noted in the cuisine of Singapore and that of other settlements.

Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia

Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

The original type of sushi, known today as nare-zushi () was first developed in Southeast Asia possibly along what is now known as the Mekong River and then spread to southern China before introduction to Japan.

The Tai – Kadai languages, also known as Daic, Kadai, Kradai, or Kra – Dai, are a language family of highly tonal languages found in southern China and Southeast Asia.

When European imperialism brought a new phase in Southeast Asian commerce in the late 1800s, Thailand ( known then as Siam ) was able to maintain its independence as a buffer zone between British-controlled Burma to the west and French-dominated Indochina to the east, but losing over 50 % of its territory in the process.

Zheng He ( 1371 – 1433 ), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho and also known as Ma Sanbao and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin, was a Muslim Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Somalia and the Swahili coast, collectively referred to as the " Voyages of Zheng He " from 1405 to 1433.

During the classical age, the existence of Southeast Asia had been known to the Greeks.

Their works are the earliest known metal object to be found by archeologists in Southeast Asia.

Very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards.

Neem is used in parts of mainland Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, Laos ( where it is called kadao ), Thailand ( where it is known as sadao or sdao ), Myanmar ( where it is known as tamar ) and Vietnam ( where it is known as s? u dâu and is used to cook the salad g? i s? u dâu ).

As a consequence of colonial European trade patterns, most of the known European-based creole languages arose in the equatorial belt around the world and in areas with access to the oceans, including the coastal regions of the Americas, western Africa, Goa and along the west coast of India, and along the coast of Southeast Asia up to Indonesia, Macau, the Philippines, Malaysia, Seychelles and Oceania.

Their leaders were known as the diana in the Southeast and andriana or raondriana in the Center and the West

What are today know as the Five Civilized Tribes originated in the Southeast part of the United States, and were probably descendents of the Mississippian culture, an agrarian culture that grew crops of corn and beans, with urban centers and regional chiefdoms, of which the greatest was the settlement known as Cahokia, in present-day Illinois.

It is one of the best known fruits of Southeast Asia and is also widely cultivated elsewhere in the tropics including Africa, the Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Panama, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka ; it is also produced in Ecuador where it is known as " achotillo " and on the island of Puerto Rico .. Thailand is the largest producer from Surat Thani Province Thailand.

Although there is historical evidence for Vajrayana Buddhism in Southeast Asia and elsewhere ( see History of Vajrayana below ), today the Vajrayana exists primarily in the form of the two major sub-schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism in Japan known as Shingon, with a handful of minor subschools utilising lesser amounts of esoteric or tantric materials.

Burma ( otherwise known as Myanmar ) was one of the first countries to recognize Israel ( first in Southeast Asia ) and establish diplomatic relations with Israel.

Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan, is a tropical tree native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone.

Another member known especially for its presence in butterfly greenhouses and live butterfly expositions is the Southeast Asian Idea leuconoe.

The idea of uniting former British and Dutch colonial possessions in Southeast Asia actually have its roots in early 20th century, as the concept of Greater Malay ( Melayu Raya ) was coined in British Malaya espoused by students and graduates of Sultan Idris Training College for Malay Teachers in the late 1920s.

Mosques built in Southeast Asia often represent the Indonesian-Javanese style architecture, which are different from the ones found throughout the Greater Middle East.

Sun's notability and popularity extends beyond the Greater China region, particularly to Nanyang ( Southeast Asia ) where a large concentration of overseas Chinese reside in Malaya ( Malaysia and Singapore ).

It operates in four geographic regions: EMEA ( Europe, Middle East, Africa ), America ( United States and Canada ), LAC ( Latin America and Caribbean ), and APJ ( Asia Pacific and Japan ), which represents Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, India, Greater China, and Southeast Asian countries.

FEER covered a variety of topics including politics, business, economics, technology, social and cultural issues throughout Asia, focusing on Southeast Asia and Greater China.

It is alternatively known as the Greater South East, the London metropolitan area or the Southeast metropolitan area.

Indian films came to be followed throughout Southern Asia, the Greater Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the former Soviet Union.

Culturally, the region is often seen as part of ' Farther India ' or Greater India -- the Coedes ' Indianized states of Southeast Asia ' refers to it as ' Island Southeast Asia '.

Some residents of the Golden Triangle do not consider the Greater Houston area as being part of Southeast Texas and place the western boundary of the region approximately at the Trinity River, which is roughly 30 miles from Downtown Houston.

Residents and D. C. government officials asked WMATA to build stations at Congress Heights and Southern Avenue in order to promote economic development and provide service to St. Elizabeths Hospital and Greater Southeast Community Hospital.

Megophryidae are a large family of frogs native to the warm southeast of Asia, from the Himalaya foothills eastwards, south to Indonesia and the Greater Sunda Islands in Maritime Southeast Asia, and extending to the Philippines.

The Cincinnati-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area ( the " MSA "), which includes seven counties in Northern Kentucky and three in Southeast Indiana, is considered the largest metropolitan area that includes parts of Ohio, exceeding the population of Greater Cleveland.

* Greater Southeast Community Hospital

When the Southeast Missouri Council merged with the St. Louis Area Council in 1993, the Anpetu-We Lodge was allowed to exist within the Greater St. Louis Area Council.

The cultural identity of the region is seen as part of ' Farther India ' or Greater India, as seen in Coedes ' ' Indianized states of Southeast Asia ', which refers to it as ' Island Southeast Asia '; while other authorities see it is as partly ( or heavily, in the case of Singapore ) sinicised, and yet others even suggest its own identity within Austronesia or Oceania.

On the other side was the largely pro-Imperialist faction, which represented the military interests of Japan and was led by General Hideki Tōjō, who reasoned that the extremely rapid successes in recent campaigns in Southeast Asia should be continued into the rest of Asia and even Australia before the Allies could react, to further develop the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Some advocates of the Greater India theory claim this led to an exodus of people to Southeast Asia where they set up Indianized kingdoms, but there is no evidence for such a migration of people.

It is bordered by the small mountainous province of Tusheti and the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north, Russian Federation to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and the Georgian province of Kartli to the west.

West of Wallacea, the vast Sunda Shelf was also exposed as dry land, greatly extending the Southeast Asian mainland to include the Greater Sunda Islands of Sundaland.

Bird species sighted in Thung Yai include White-winged Wood Duck ( Cairina scutulata ), Kalij Pheasant ( Lophura leucomelanos ), Grey Peacock-pheasant ( Polyplectron bicalcaratum ), Green Peafowl ( Pavo muticus ), Spot-billed Pelican ( Pelecanus philippensis ), Oriental Darter ( Anhinga melanogaster ), Painted Stork ( Mycteria leucocephala ), Greater Adjutant ( Leptoptilos dubius ), Red-headed Vulture ( Sarcogyps calvus ), Mountain Hawk-eagle ( Nisaetus nipalensis ), Lesser Fish Eagle ( Ichthyophaga humilis ) and all six species of Hornbill ( Bucerotidae ) living in Mainland Southeast Asia.

The Alps Electric Group has R & D, production and sales bases located in Japan and across the globe — in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Greater China.

LaRosa's Pizzeria is a chain of pizzerias serving neighborhoods throughout the Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Southeast Indiana and Greater Dayton areas.