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Peninsular Malaysia , also known as West Malaysia ( formerly Malaya ), is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula and surrounding islands . Its ___MASK14___ is . It shares a land border with Thailand in the north . To the south is the island of Singapore . Quezon City ( also known as QC ) is the most populous city in the Philippines . It is one of the cities that make up Metro Manila , the National Capital Region of the Philippines . Quezon City was named after Manuel L . Quezon , second President of the Philippines , who founded the city and developed it to replace Manila as the national capital for 28 years from 1948 to 1976 . Quezon City is not located in and should not be confused with Quezon Province , which was also named after the president . It is the largest city in Metro Manila in terms of land ___MASK14___ and most populated local government unit in the country . Palau ( historically Belau or Pelew ), officially the Republic of Palau , is an island country located in the western Pacific Ocean . The country contains approximately 250 islands , forming the western chain of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia , and has an ___MASK14___ of . The most populous island is Koror . The capital Ngerulmud is located on the nearby island of Babeldaob , in Melekeok State . Palau shares maritime boundaries with Indonesia , the Philippines , and the Federated States of Micronesia . Metropolitan Manila , commonly known as Metro Manila or simply Manila , is the capital region of the Philippines , is the seat of government , the 2nd most populous and the most densely populated region of the country . The National Capital Region ( NCR ) is composed of Manila , the capital city of the country , Quezon City , the country ' s most populous city , and the cities of Caloocan , Las Piñas , Makati , Malabon , Mandaluyong , Marikina , Muntinlupa , Navotas , Parañaque , Pasay , Pasig , San Juan , Taguig , and ___MASK82___ , including the only remaining municipality of Pateros . Indonesia ( or ; Indonesian : ), officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia with some territories in Oceania . Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans , it is the world ' s largest island country , with more than seventeen thousand islands . At , Indonesia is the world ' s 14th - largest country in terms of land ___MASK14___ and world ' s 7th - largest country in terms of combined sea and land ___MASK14___ . It has an estimated population of over 260 million people and is the world ' s fourth most populous country , the most populous Austronesian nation , as well as the most populous Muslim - majority country . The world ' s most populous island of Java contains more than half of the country ' s population . The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea east and northeast of the Philippines occupying an estimated surface ___MASK14___ of 5 million km² ( 2 million mi² ). of the western part of the North Pacific Ocean . It is bordered by the Philippine archipelago ( Luzon , Catanduanes , Samar , Leyte and Mindanao ) on the southwest ; Halmahera , Morotai , Palau , Yap , and Ulithi ( of the Carolines ) on the southeast ; the Marianas , including Guam , Saipan , and Tinian , on the east ; the Bonin and Iwo Jima on the northeast ; the Japanese islands of Honshu , Shikoku , and Kysh on the north ; the Ryukyu Islands on the northwest ; and Taiwan in the west . A songbird is a ___MASK7___ belonging to the clade ___MASK6___ of the perching birds ( Passeriformes ). Another name that is sometimes seen as a scientific or vernacular name is Oscines , from Latin " oscen ", " a songbird ". This group contains some 4 , 000 species found all over the world , in which the vocal organ typically is developed in such a way as to produce a diverse and elaborate ___MASK7___ song . ___MASK72___ is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds (" warblers "), formerly placed in the Old World warbler " wastebin " assemblage . It contains the typical bush warblers (" ___MASK52___ ") and their relatives . As a common name , cettiid warblers is usually used . The Celebes Sea of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines , on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain , on the south by Sulawesi ' s Minahassa Peninsula , and on the west by Kalimantan in Indonesia . It extends 420 miles ( 675 km ) north - south by 520 miles ( 837 km ) east - west and has a total surface ___MASK14___ of , to a maximum depth of . The sea opens southwest through the Makassar Strait into the Java Sea . Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia . It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions , Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia ( Malaysian Borneo ). Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore , Vietnam , and Indonesia . East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur , while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government . With a population of over 30 million , Malaysia is the 44th most populous country . The southernmost point of continental Eurasia , Tanjung Piai , is in Malaysia . Located in the tropics , Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on earth , with large numbers of endemic species . Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore , and often referred to as the " ___MASK41___ City " or the " Little Red Dot ", is a sovereign city - state in Southeast Asia , and the world ' s only island city - state . It lies one degree ( 137 km ) north of the equator , south of the southernmost tip of continental Asia and peninsular Malaysia , with Indonesia ' s Riau Islands to the south . Singapore ' s territory consists of a diamond - shaped main island along with 62 other islets . Since independence , extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23 % ( 130 km ), and its greening policy has covered the densely populated island with tropical flora , parks and gardens . China , officially the People ' s Republic of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over 1 . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban ___MASK56___ include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . Kuala Lumpur ( or ), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur , is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city . The city covers an ___MASK14___ of and has an estimated population of 1 . 7 million . Greater Kuala Lumpur , also known as the Klang Valley , is an urban agglomeration of 7 . 2 million people . It is among the fastest growing metropolitan regions in South - East Asia , in terms of population and economy . Putrajaya , officially the Federal Territory of Putrajaya , is a planned city and the federal administrative centre of Malaysia . The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya , because of overcrowding and congestion in the former . Kuala Lumpur remains Malaysia ' s national capital , and is the seat of the King and the Parliament , and is the country ' s commercial and financial centre . Putrajaya was the ___MASK64___ of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad . It became Malaysia ' s third Federal Territory , after Kuala Lumpur and Labuan , in 2001 . The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the equator . They are delimited in latitude by the Tropic of ___MASK88___ in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S ; these latitudes correspond to the axial tilt of the Earth . The tropics are also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone ( see geographical zone ). The tropics include all the ___MASK56___ on the Earth where the Sun is at a point directly overhead at least once during the solar year ( which is a subsolar point ). Oceania ( or ), also known as Oceanica , is a region centred on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean . Opinions of what constitutes Oceania range from its three subregions of Melanesia , Micronesia , and ___MASK57___ to , more broadly , the entire insular region between Southeast Asia and the Americas , including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago . ___MASK52___ is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds (" warblers ") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae . They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae , which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler - like Sylvioidea . The range of this genus extends from Europe to southeast Asia . India , officially the Republic of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by ___MASK14___ , the second - most populous country ( with over 1 . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad . Asia is Earth ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an ___MASK14___ of , about 30 % of Earth ' s total land ___MASK14___ and 8 . 7 % of the Earth ' s total surface ___MASK14___ . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . Thailand ( or ), officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country at the centre of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia . With a total ___MASK14___ of approximately , Thailand is the world ' s 51st - largest country . It is the 20th - most - populous country in the world , with around 66 million people . The capital and largest city is Bangkok . A sovereign state is , in international law , a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralised government that has sovereignty over a geographic ___MASK14___ . International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population , defined territory , one government , and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states . It is also normally understood that a sovereign state is neither dependent on nor subjected to any other power or state . The Sunda bush warbler ( Horornis vulcania ) is a species of ___MASK7___ in the Cettiidae family . It is found in Indonesia , Malaysia , and the Philippines . The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean , encompassing an ___MASK14___ from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around . The ___MASK14___ ' s importance largely results from one - third of the world ' s shipping sailing through its waters and that it is believed to hold huge oil and gas reserves beneath its seabed . The Philippines , officially the Republic of the Philippines , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the Philippines is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the Philippines shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south . Old World warblers are a large group of birds formerly grouped together in the ___MASK7___ family Sylviidae . The family held over 400 species in over 70 genera , and were the source of much taxonomic confusion . Two families were split out initially , the cisticolas into Cisticolidae and the kinglets into Regulidae . In the past ten years they have been the subject of much research and many species are now placed into other families , including the Acrocephalidae , Cettiidae , Phylloscopidae , and Megaluridae . In addition some species have been moved into existing families or have not yet had their placement fully resolved . A smaller family of warblers , together with some babblers formerly placed in the family Timaliidae and the parrotbills , are retained in a much smaller family Sylviidae .