Zomia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Dutch historian Willem van Schendel in 2002 on the basis of the Kukish roots zo ‘hill’ and mi ‘person’.
Proper noun[edit]
Zomia
- (neologism) Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.