Indochina

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A peninsula and geographic region of Southeast Asia, consisting of the mainland portion, not including islands such as those of Indonesia. dated
  2. A former French colony in Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; in full, French Indochina. historical

词形变化

Indo-China alternative

词源

From Indo- + China, modelled after French Indochine. Name first proposed in the early 19th century by Scottish poet and orientalist John Leyden and later first used in Précis de Géographie universelle by Conrad Malte-Brun.
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