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