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Laos. / 17.967°N 102.600°E / 17.967; 102.600. Laos, [ e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR ), [ f] is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia. [ g] At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east ...
Laos. Indonesia and Laos established diplomatic relations in 1957. [1] Indonesia has an embassy in Vientiane, while Laos have an embassy in Jakarta. [2] Indonesia supported and welcomed Laos membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on 23 July 1997. [3] Laos and Indonesia agreed to enhance relations to focus on exploring ...
Indonesia, [ b] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [ c] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at ...
History of Laos. History of Isan. v. t. e. Evidence of modern human presence in the northern and central highlands of Indochina, which constitute the territories of the modern Laotian nation-state, dates back to the Lower Paleolithic. [ 1] These earliest human migrants are Australo-Melanesians —associated with the Hoabinhian culture—and ...
King of Lan Xang Hom Khao Luang Prabang, elder son of Prince Indra Brahma, Chao Raja Yudha, by his wife, Princess Chandra Kumari, educ. privately. He fled to his mother's family in Muang Phong, in Sipsòng Panna in 1700. Returned to Luang Prabang at the head of an army in 1705 and expelled Sethathirat's Viceroy.
Geography of Laos. Laos is a country in and the only landlocked nation in mainland Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam. It covers approximately 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Culture of Laos. Laos developed its culture and customs as the inland crossroads of trade and migration in Southeast Asia over millennia. As of 2012 Laos has a population of roughly 6.4 million spread over 236,800 km 2 (91,400 sq miles), yielding one of the lowest population densities in Asia.
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. They primarily speak the Lao language, which belongs to the Kra–Dai language family. Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in ...