Indochina

Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia.

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It lies roughly east of India, south of China.

Indochina comprises the territory of the following countries:

These countries have been known as Indochina since the time that they were French Indochina.[1]

Often also included in the scope of the term are:

Peninsular Malaysia (comprising the southern end of the Malay peninsula but not any of the Malay islands)
Myanmar (formerly known as Burma)
Singapore
Thailand (formerly Siam)

References

McAuliff, John (January 1997). "Indochina". Foreign Policy in Focus Volume 2, Number 16. joint project of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Archived from the original on 2008-10-15. Retrieved 2008-10-24.

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