Col. gaz. (Southeast Asia: region of Asia, bounded roughly W by the Indian subcontinent, N by China, and E by the Pacific Ocean. The name Southeast Asia came into popular use after World War II ... Southeast Asia includes the Indochina Peninsula, which juts into the South China Sea, the Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian and Philippine archipelagos.)

Here are entered works dealing collectively with the mainland and insular regions of Asia lying south of China and east of India, including Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and the Philippines.