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    TERRITORIAL

    MORPHOLOGY

    ASSIGNMENT Southeast Asia

    Spring 2022

    STATE TERRITORIAL

    MORPHOLOGY

     Shapes of States  Compact – Cambodia

     Protruded – Burma, Thailand

     Elongated – Laos, Vietnam

     Fragmented – Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines

     The impact of shape?  Urban centers

     Transportation networks

     Economic activities

     Distribution of resources

     Political control

    SHAPES OF STATES

    Cambodia

     A state that has a circular,

    oval, or rectangular

    territory where the

    distance from the center to

    any point on the boundary

    is the same

     Encloses the maximum

    amount of territory in the

    minimum length of

    boundary

    COMPACT STATE

    CAMBODIA TRANSPORTATION MAP

    POPULATION OF CAMBODIA

    Population: 16,449,519 (2018)

    Urbanization rate: 23.4%

    Urban population: 3,849,187

    Rural population: 12,600,332

    Major city: Phnom Penh

    Population: 1,952,000

    Thailand  A type of territorial shape

    that exhibits a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main body of the territory

     Protrusions often suffer from isolation from investment and political power

     Thailand and Myanmar are excellent examples

    PROTRUDED STATE

    Vietnam  A state whose territory is

    decidedly long and narrow; its length is at least six times greater than its average width

     Elongated states often have regional concentrations of population and economic activity and investment

     Vietnam and Laos are both elongated states

    ELONGATED STATE

    VIETNAM

    TRANSPORTATION

    MAP

     A state whose territory consists of several separated parts, not a contiguous whole

     The individual parts may be isolated from each other by the land area of other states or by international waters

     Capital of Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur

     Philippines and Indonesia are also examples

    FRAGMENTED STATE

    2022 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK DATA

     Population

     Land area

     GDP – per capita (PPP)

     Number of airports with paved runways

     Number of registered air carriers (RAC)

     Annual passenger traffic on RAC

     Railways – total km

     Roadways (paved) – total km

     Roadways (unpaved) – total km

     Waterways – total km

    CALCULATED RATIOS

     Population/land area: also known as Raw Population Density

     Number of airports/land area: also known as Airport Density – an important consideration is the technological sophistication and runway capacity

     Railways (km)/land area: also known as Railway Route Density – importation distinctions are the number of tracks available on each line

     Paved roadways (km)/land area: also known as Road Density – may be misleading if the lane density is not considered

     Waterways (km)/land area: also known as Shipping Potential – an important consideration is the channel depth for commercial vessels

    WHAT SHOULD YOU WRITE ABOUT?

     The primary objective of this assignment is to evaluate if

    the physical shape of a state influences development and

    political control

     If parts of a country are undeveloped as measured by

    transportation infrastructure it may be due to distance

    from the political capital (where spending decisions are

    made) and core area (where most of the population and

    businesses are located)

     Lack of development in one part of a country may be due to

    other factors such as deserts or mountainous terrain which

    is not covered in the scope of this assignment

     For the country sections of this assignment describe the

    development conditions of each state and the spatial

    locations of the population and infrastructure

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