Abstract
The aim of this paper is to show the position of the Southeast-Asian metropolitan area among the worldʼs urban system and the new international division of labor. In these days, the urban population of the world is increasing and a lot of huge metropolitan areas are formed in Asia. However, it has not been discussed in previous studies on the problem of why the metropolitan areas are formed in Asian rather than in the other developing countries. The author analyzes the reason with the status of industrial products exporting country of Asian countries. As a result, the author focuses on geopolitical and global economic factors, domestic working environment factors and agri-economic system of the pre-industrial and population distribution factors.
