Indochina

[in-doh-chahy-nuh] Origin

In·do·chi·na

[in-doh-chahy-nuh]
noun
a peninsula in SE Asia, between the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea, comprising Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, W Malaysia, and Burma (Myanmar).
Also called Farther India.
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Indochina is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Indochina or Indo-China
 
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1.  Also called: Farther India a peninsula in SE Asia, between India and China: consists of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Malaysia
2.  the former French colonial possessions of Cochin China, Annam, Tonkin, Laos, and Cambodia
 
Indo-China or Indo-China (ˈɪndəʊˈtʃaɪnə)
 
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Indochina
1886, from Indo-, comb. form of Gk. Indos "India" + China. Name proposed early 19c. by Scot. poet and orientalist John Leyden, who lived and worked in India from 1803 till his death at 35 in 1811.
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Indochina definition


Region in Southeast Asia, including Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Note: The French colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were organized as French Indochina.
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