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What year was Indian partition?
1947
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What year was Pakistan created?
1947
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What year did former East Pakistan become Bangladesh?
1971
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When were the three Anglo-Burmese wars that saw Burma come under British rule?
1824-26: Costal strips + Arakan
1852-53: Lower Burma
1885: North Burma
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When was Burmese partition from India?
1937
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When did Burma gain independence from British rule?
1948
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What years were Burma's initial democratic perido?
1948 to 1962
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what countries are part of South Asia?
(7)
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
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What countries are part of central Asia?
(5)
the five stans: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
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What countries are part of East Asia?
(2)
China, Mongolia
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What countries are part of North East Asia?
Korean, Taiwan, Japan
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what countries are part of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula?
Vietnam, Lao, Cambodia,
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What countries are part of South East Asia?
Brunei, Burma , Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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what countries are maritime Southeast Asia?
Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines
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What is the SAARC?
South Asian association for regional cooperation:
1985 in Bangladesh
to check the rise of Indian hegemony
main concerns: security and trade
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What is the ASEAN
Association of South Asian Nations
founded 1967
Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and China
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