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| Ruled by the british colonial, 1989, the military government officially changed the English version of the country's name from "Burma" to "Myanmar", the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia |
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| country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma (Myanmar) and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. |
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| Cambodia is the successor state of the once powerful Hindu and Buddhist Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese Peninsula between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. borders Thailand to its west and northwest, Laos to its northeast, and Vietnam to its east and southeast. In the south it faces the Gulf of Thailand. |
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| Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. |
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| officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. Singapore is one of three remaining true Sovereign city-states in the world, Sir Stamford Raffles, established a trading post on the island, which was used as a port along the spice route. |
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| Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea it is completely surrounded by the state of Sarawak, Malaysia, and in fact it is separated into two parts by Limbang, which is part of Sarawak.Brunei, the remnant of a very powerful sultanate, regained its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 January 1984. The Sultanate of Brunei was very powerful from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century. |
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| Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo, The majority of Sarawak's people are non-Muslim, The eastern seaboard of Borneo had been charted (though never settled) by the Portuguese in the early 16th century. The area of today's Sarawak was known to Portuguese cartographers as Cerava. Sarawak had been a loosely governed territory under the control of the Brunei Sultanate in the early 19th century, although in the early 17th century Sarawak had her own the first and the last Sultan, Sultan Tengah. During the reign of Pangeran Indera Mahkota in 19th century, Sarawak was in chaos. |
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