--- title: East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: More than half of all the people on Earth live in Asia, and most of them live in its east, south and south-east: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / East, South and South-East Asia: count… # East, South and South-East Asia: countries and capitals Lesson 11 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/0/) — More than half of all the people on Earth live in Asia, and most of them live in its east, south and south-east: in China, India, Japan, Indonesia and their neighbours. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/2/) — Borders here have long, sometimes painful stories: British India was split in 1947, Korea has been split since 1945, and Thailand stayed free of European rule while its neighbours were colonised. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/3/) — If you played Europa Universalis 5, you saw a different map in 1337: the Mongol Yuan dynasty ruled China from Dadu, the city that became Beijing, and the Delhi Sultanate ruled much of north India; today's countries grew out of those old states over many centuries. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/4/) — Picture a class atlas open at Asia: the giant shapes of China and India, the long chain of Japan's islands, and thousands of islands of Indonesia and the Philippines scattered like crumbs across the sea. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/5/) — China's capital is Beijing, and China has about 1.4 billion people, the second most of any country, since India overtook it around 2023. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/7/) — Japan's capital is Tokyo, and its four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku; the Tokyo area, with about 37 million people, is one of the largest cities on Earth. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/8/) — South Korea's capital is Seoul and North Korea's is Pyongyang; Korea has been divided since 1945, and the Korean War of 1950 to 1953 ended only in an armistice, not a peace treaty. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/9/) — Indonesia's capital is Jakarta, but it is building a new capital called Nusantara on the island of Borneo, and it has more Muslims than any other country. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/10/) — In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and in 1971 East Pakistan became Bangladesh; millions were forced from their homes and hundreds of thousands, perhaps far more, were killed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/12/) — Thailand, with its capital Bangkok, is the only country in South-East Asia that was never colonised by a European power: it lay between British lands to the west and French lands to the east and kept its freedom by clever diplomacy (careful talks and deals). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/13/) — Vietnam's capital is Hanoi and the Philippines' capital is Manila; the Philippines are named after King Philip II of Spain, and Spain ruled them from 1565 to 1898. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/14/) — Malaysia's capital is Kuala Lumpur, though much of its government works in Putrajaya, and Singapore is a tiny island city-state that became independent in 1965. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/15/) — Mongolia, with its capital Ulaanbaatar, is a huge landlocked country with only about 3.5 million people, and Ulaanbaatar is the coldest national capital on Earth on average. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/16/) — Nepal's capital is Kathmandu and Bhutan's is Thimphu, while Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to its largest city, Colombo. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/11-east-south-and-south-east-asia/17/) — In 1337, where Europa Universalis 5 begins, China was ruled by the Mongol Yuan dynasty from Dadu, later Beijing, and the Ming took over in 1368. - ← previous: [Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the rest of the English-speaking world](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/10-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-and-the-english-speaking-world/) - next →: [The Middle East and Central Asia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)