Indochina

See also: Indo-China

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Indo- +‎ China, modelled after 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

  • IPA(key): /ˌɪndoʊ̯ˈt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/, /ˈɪndoʊ̯ˌt͡ʃaɪ̯nə/

Proper noun

Indochina

  1. The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

Translations

References

Portuguese

Proper noun

Indochina f

  1. Indochina (a peninsula in southeast Asia)

Spanish

Proper noun

Indochina f

  1. Indochina (region in Southeast Asia)
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