Matching

match the nation in column 1 to its description in column 2

Indonesia   --- Fourth largest population in the world.New Zealand  --   Inhabited by the Maori people.Philippines   --  Longtime Spanish colony.Malaysia  --  Partly connected by mainland Asia.

Explanation:

The Maori are indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand and originally settled from eastern Polynesia between the 1320 and '50s.  Indonesia is the 4th largest populated country with a population of 269,536,482 as of 2019 in the world and mostly comprise of the Muslim world followed by the United States with 329,093,110. The Philippians are a long-established colony of Spanish people that was under the British rule. Malaysia is an island group that is part of the Asian Continent and is mostly dominated by the Muslim people.

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