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Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia , consisting of the countries that are geographically south of ___MASK3___ , east of India , west of New Guinea and north of Australia . The region lies near the intersection of geological plates , with heavy seismic and volcanic activity . Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions : The Karen , Kayin , Kariang or Yang people (; " Per Ploan Poe " or " Ploan " in Poe Karen and " Pwa Ka Nyaw " or " Kanyaw " in Sgaw Karen ) refer to a number of individual Sino - Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups , many of which do not share a common language or culture . These Karen groups reside primarily in Karen State , southern and southeastern ___MASK20___ . The Karen make up approximately 7 percent of the total Burmese population with approximately 5 million people . A large number of Karen have migrated to Thailand , having settled mostly on the Thailand  ___MASK20___ border . The Karen National Liberation Army ( abbreviated KNLA ) is the military branch of the Karen National Union ( KNU ), which campaigns for the self - determination of the Karen people of ___MASK20___ ( Burma ). The KNLA has been fighting the Burmese government since 1949 . Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of ___MASK87___ . It is known in Thai as " Krung Thep Maha Nakhon " ( pronounced ) or simply . The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central ___MASK87___ , and has a population of over 8 million , or 12 . 6 percent of the country ' s population . Over 14 million people ( 22 . 2 percent ) live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region , making Bangkok an extreme primate city , significantly dwarfing ___MASK87___ ' s other urban centres in terms of importance . There are 581 high - rise buildings in the city , ranking number 5 in the world . The Karen National Union ( abbreviated KNU ) is a political organisation with an armed wing , the Karen National Liberation Army ( KNLA ) that represents the Karen people of Burma . It operates in mountainous eastern Burma , and has underground networks in other areas of Burma where Karen people live as a minority group . In the Karen language , this area is called Kawthoolei . Some of the Karen , led primarily by the Karen National Union ( KNU ), have waged a war against the central government since early 1949 . The aim of the KNU at first was independence . Since 1976 the armed group has called for a federal system rather than an independent Karen State . In this Burmese name , Naw is an honorific . Naw Zipporah Sein ( Burmese :             ) is a Karen political activist and Vice - President of the Karen National Union . Zipporah Sein was born in 1955 in Kayin State , Burma , and trained as a teacher before fleeing to ___MASK87___ in 1995 . From 1998 to 2008 , she was the coordinator and executive secretary of the Karen Women ' s Organization , which describes its mission as helping Karen women refugees . She has been called a `` heroine '' by the Political Heroes website . Kawthoolei is the Karen name for the state that the Karen people of ___MASK20___ have been trying to establish since the late 1940s . Kawthoolei roughly approximates to present - day Kayin State , although parts of the Burmese Ayeyarwady River delta with Karen populations have sometimes also been claimed . Kawthoolei , as a name , was penned during the time of former Karen leader Ba U Gyi , who was assassinated around the time of Burma ' s independence from Britain . Kawthoolei has also been spelled  Kaw - thu - lay  or  Kawthoolie  with the last syllable replacing the  lay  with  lea . The name  Kaw - thu - lay  was used by the Government of the Union of Burma in drawing up its constitution which made provisions within a Karen State . ___MASK87___ ( or ), officially the Kingdom of ___MASK87___ , formerly known as ___MASK90___ , is a country at the centre of the Indochinese peninsula in Southeast Asia . With a total area of approximately , ___MASK87___ 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 .