Brunei Darussalam
Brunei Darussalam, its name meaning “Brunei, the abode of peace”, is ASEAN’s smallest country in terms of population, with only 429,000 people in 2018, and second smallest in terms of landmass after Singapore. Brunei…
Cambodia
Cambodia is a mainland Southeast Asian country of 16.25 million people wedged between Thailand and Vietnam. Like neighbouring Thailand, it is officially a kingdom in which Buddhism is the state religion. Cambodia has one of…
Indonesia
Indonesia is ASEAN’s largest country both in population and landmass. It is an archipelago of over 17,000 islands, and home to over 267 million people, making it the world’s fourth most populous country. While Indonesia…
Laos
Laos, also known as the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), with a population of 7.06 million, is ASEAN’s only landlocked country. Along with its larger neighbour Vietnam, Laos has been ruled by a one-party communist government…
Malaysia
Malaysia is a middle-income country that is geographically divided into two parts: Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo (also known as West and East Malaysia, respectively). Malaysia has a highly diverse ethnic and linguistic landscape, with…
Myanmar
Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is the largest mainland Southeast Asian country with a population of 54.5 million in 2020. It is a constitutional republic with a diverse population of 135 ethnic groups, 68% of…
The Philippines
The Philippines is an archipelagic country of over 7,000 islands and has a population of over 106 million. Like its geography, the Philippines’ population is demographically diverse with various ethnic groups and languages, of which…
Singapore
The city-state of Singapore is both the smallest and most economically developed ASEAN member. Its almost entirely urbanised population of 5.6 million has a 97.5% literacy rate and it enjoys the highest standard of living in…
Thailand
Thailand is a constitutional monarchy of 66.5 million people as of 2019 and is the only ASEAN member that is not a former European colony. With a GDP of USD543.65 billion in 2019, it is…
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste, or East Timor, is a young country located on the eastern half of Timor island in the eastern Indonesian Archipelago that declared independence in 2002. Though not an ASEAN member state, it holds the…
Vietnam
Vietnam is a densely populated country of 95.5 million on the Indochina Peninsula that has been historically separated between north and south until its reunification in 1975 at the conclusion of the Vietnam War. Vietnam…
