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Cambodia Google Maps

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Cambodia

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Cambodia (CB). Explore satellite imagery of Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia, on the Google Maps of Southeast Asia below.

Cambodia (GPS: 13 00 N, 105 00 E) is located in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. The country’s area measurements are total: 181,035 sq km; land: 176,515 sq km, water: 4,520 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Oklahoma. The total irrigated land is 3,540 sq km (2012).

One of Cambodia’s essential features: A land of paddies and forests dominated by the Mekong River and Tonle Sap (Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake).

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China Google Maps

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China

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for China (CH). Explore satellite imagery of Beijing, the capital city of China, on the Google Maps of Asia below.

China (GPS: 35 00 N, 105 00 E) is located in Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and the South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam. The country’s area measurements are total: 9,596,960 sq km; land: 9,326,410 sq km, water: 270,550 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than the US. The total irrigated land is 690,070 sq km (2012).

One of China’s important features: the World’s fourth-largest country (after Russia, Canada, and the US) and the largest country situated entirely in Asia. Mount Everest, on the border with Nepal, is the world’s tallest peak above sea-level. The largest cave chamber globally is the Miao Room, in the Gebihe cave system at China’s Ziyun Getu He Chuandong National Park, which encloses some 10.78 million cu m (380.7 million cu ft) of volume. China appears to have been the center of domestication for two of the world’s leading cereal crops: millet in the north along the Yellow River and rice in the south along the lower or middle Yangtze River.

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Laos Google Maps

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Laos

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Laos (LA). Explore satellite imagery of Vientiane, the capital city of Laos, on the Google Maps of Southeast Asia below.

Laos (GPS: 18 00 N, 105 00 E) located in Southeastern Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of Vietnam. The country’s area measurements are total: 236,800 sq km; land: 230,800 sq km, water: 6,000 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Utah. The total irrigated land is 3,100 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Laos: Landlocked (enclosed or nearly enclosed by land). Most of the country is mountainous and thickly forested. The Mekong River forms a large part of the western boundary with Thailand.

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Myanmar Google Maps

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Myanmar

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Myanmar (MM, Burma). Explore satellite imagery of Rangoon, the capital city of Burma, on the Google Maps of Southeast Asia below.

Burma (GPS: 22 00 N, 98 00 E) is located in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand. The country’s area measurements are total: 676,578 sq km; land: 653,508 sq km, water: 23,070 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Texas. The total irrigated land is 22,950 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Burma: Strategic location near major Indian Ocean shipping lanes. The north-south flowing Irrawaddy River is the country’s largest and most important commercial waterway.

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Thailand Google Maps

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Thailand

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Thailand (TH). Explore satellite imagery of Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand, on the Google Maps of Southeast Asia below.

Thailand (GPS: 15 00 N, 100 00 E) is located in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma. The country’s area measurements are total: 513,120 sq km; land: 510,890 sq km, water: 2,230 sq km. This sovereign state is about three times the size of Florida, slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming. The total irrigated land is 64,150 sq km (2012).

One of the crucial features of Thailand: Controls only land route from Asia to Malaysia and Singapore. Ideas for constructing a canal across the Kra Isthmus that would create a bypass to the Strait of Malacca and shorten shipping times around Asia continue discussed.

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Vietnam Google Maps

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Vietnam

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Vietnam (VN). Explore satellite imagery of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam, on the Google Maps of Southeast Asia below.

Vietnam (GPS: 16 10 N, 107 50 E) located in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and the South China Sea and China, Laos, and Cambodia. The country’s area measurements are total: 331,210 sq km; land: 310,070 sq km, water: 21,140 sq km. This sovereign state is about three times the size of Tennesee, slightly larger than New Mexico. The total irrigated land is 46,000 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Vietnam: Extending 1,650 km north to south, the country is only 50 km across at its narrowest point. Son Doong in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is the world’s largest cave (most significant cross-sectional area) and is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume. It currently measures a total of 38.5 million cu m (about 1.35 billion cu ft). It connects to Thung cave (but not yet officially). When recognized, it will add 1.6 million cu m in volume. Son Doong is so massive that it contains its jungle, underground river, and localized weather system. Clouds from inside the cave and spew out from its exits and two lines (openings (sinkhole skylights) created by collapsed ceilings that allow sunlight to stream in).

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