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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 and Indonesia agreed to enhance relations to focus on exploring the potential of both nations to cooperate on trade and investment. The two nations expressed a desire to reach further agreements relating to security, tourism, sport, air transport and education. The two sides will also work together in cooperation with other ASEAN nations ...
Mainland Southeast Asia (also known as Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand ...
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 ...
The foreign relations of Laos, internationally designated by its official name as the Lao People's Democratic Republic, after the takeover by the Pathet Lao in December 1975, were characterized by a hostile posture toward the West, with the government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic aligning itself with the Soviet bloc, maintaining close ties with the Soviet Union and depending heavily ...
The first Indonesian Permanent Representative to ASEAN is I Gede Ngurah Swajaya, which took office from 2010 until 2013. The incumbent permanent representative is M. I. Derry Aman since 25 October 2021. [1] The mission office is located in Senayan, South Jakarta, with close proximity to the ASEAN Headquarters in Jalan Sisingamangaraja.
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 ...
The official language is Lao. Laos is a multi-ethnic country with the politically and culturally dominant Lao people making up approximately 60 percent of the population, mostly in the lowlands. Mon-Khmer groups, the Hmong, and other indigenous hill tribes, accounting for 40 percent of the population, live in the foothills and mountains.