id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5423 Southeast Asia - Wikipedia .html text/html 15336 1929 68 Maritime Southeast Asia, also known as the Malay Archipelago and historically as Nusantara, comprising the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India), Brunei, East Malaysia, East Timor, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore.[6] Maluku Islands and New Guinea were never Indianised and its native people were predominantly animists until the 15th century when Islam began to spread in those areas.[58] While in Vietnam, Buddhism never managed to develop strong institutional networks due to strong Chinese influence.[59] In present-day Southeast Asia, Vietnam is the only country where its folk religion makes up the plurality.[60][61] Recently, Vietnamese folk religion is undergoing a revival with the support of the government.[62] Elsewhere, there are ethnic groups in Southeast Asia that resisted conversion and still retain their original animist beliefs, such as the Dayaks in Kalimantan, the Igorots in Luzon, and the Shans in eastern Myanmar.[63] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5423.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5423.txt