MAP OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

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Across
  1. 2. Sea bordered by Vietnam to the west, China to the north, and the Philippines to the East
  2. 7. Islands Once known as the cannibal islands
  3. 9. Capital city of China
  4. 10. Myanmar, as a British colony
  5. 11. East Indies Indonesia, as a Dutch Colony
  6. 15. The US's only colony in Asia
  7. 16. Large Bay separating the Malay Peninsula from India
  8. 18. Largest city in China
  9. 19. The "Jewel in the crown"
  10. 20. This so-called "land of smiles was one of two countries in Asia that maintained its independence during the Age of Imperialism
Down
  1. 1. oil rich southeast Asian country that was a British colony in the 1930s, with two regions of equal size split between a peninsula and an island
  2. 3. Capital city of Japan
  3. 4. until 2023, this was the most populous country in the world for all of recorded human history
  4. 5. Once British, now a Special Administrative Region of China
  5. 6. Largest ocenan in the world
  6. 8. wealthy independent city-state once controlled by the British
  7. 10. Now known as Jakarta, this was the capital of the main Dutch colony in Asia
  8. 12. This land of the rising sun was one of two countries in Asia that maintained its independence during the Age of Imperialism
  9. 13. then a colony of Japan, now competes in the Olympics as "Chinese Taipei"
  10. 14. Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
  11. 17. Present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos were carved out of this former French colony