Indochina
See also: indochina and Indo-China
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Indo- + China, modelled after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Indochine. Name first proposed in the early 19th century by Scottish poet and orientalist John Leyden[1] and later first used in Précis de Géographie universelle by Conrad Malte-Brun.[2]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Indochina
- The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, and more broadly, Myanmar and Thailand.
Related terms
Translations
part of Southeast Asia
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References
Portuguese
Proper noun
Indochina f
Spanish
Proper noun
Indochina f
- Indochina (a region of Southeast Asia)
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