Indochina

Indochina is a region of . It has no fixed definition. Most narrowly, it is the former French colonies of , and , which were collectively known as French Indochina during the colonial period until the Indochina wars.
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  • Type: peninsula with 243,000,000 residents
  • Description: region in Southeast Asia
  • Also known as: “Ấn Độ Chi Na”, “Asie du Sud-Est continentale”, “Bagindien”, “bán đảo Ấn–Trung”, “bán đảo Hoa–Ấn”, “bán đảo Trung Nam”, “Bortre Indien”, “Çinhindi”, “Continental Southeast Asia”, “Ðông Dương”, “Đông Nam Á lục địa”, “Francia Indokína”, “Francia-Indokína”, “Further India”, “Hindoĉina duoninsulo”, “Hindoĉinujo”, “Indo Tsieina”, “Indo-Cheenae”, “Indo-Cina”, “Indo-Hiina”, “Indo-Hiina poolsaar”, “Indo-Kina”, “Indo-Tsina”, “Indo-xina”, “Indocheenese Peninsula”, “Indochinees Schiereiland”, “Indochinese Peninsula”, “Indohiina”, “Indokineski poluotok”, “Indosina”, “Indotsieina”, “Indotxinako penintsula”, “Inducina”, “Kontinentalna jugoistočna Azija”, “L’Indochine”, “La Péninsule indochinoise”, “Mainland Southeast Asia”, “MSEA”, “Östra Indiska halvön”, “Península d’Indoxina”, “Península da Indochina”, “Peninsula de Indochina”, “Península de Indochina”, “Peninsula Indochina”, “Península Indochina”, “Península Indochinesa”, “Péninsule Indochinoise”, “Penisola indocinese”, “SE Asia”, “Southeast Asia”, “Taka-Intia”, “Индо-Китай”, “Индокитай çурутравĕ”, “Індокитайський півострів”, “Полуостров Индокитай”, “Үндіқытай”, “ინდო-ჩინეთი”, “הודו סין”, “חצי האי הודו-סין”, “الهند الصينيه”, “انڈو چائنا”, “سرزمین اصلی جنوب شرق آسیا”, “इंडोचाइना”, “इण्डोचाइना”, “इण्डोचायना”, “हिंदचीन”, “คาบสมุทรอินโดจีน”, “แหลมอินโดจีน”, “เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้แผ่นดินใหญ่”, “អាសុីអាគ្នេយ៍ដីគោក”, “ឧបទ្វីបឥណ្ឌូចិន”, “대륙 동남아시아”, “인도지나”, “인도지나 반도”, “인도차이나”, “인디아지나 반도”, “中印半島”, “印度支那半島”, “印支半島”, “東南アジア本土”, “東南亞半島”, “陆地东南亚”, and “陸地東南亞”

Indochina

Latitude of center
16° north
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
243,000,000
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Indochina” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Indôchina”
  • Afrikaans: “Indo-China”
  • Afrikaans: “Indosjina”
  • Albanian: “Azia Juglindore kontinentale”
  • Angika: “इंडोचायना”
  • Arabic: “الهند الصينية”
  • Arabic: “جنوب شرق آسيا البري”
  • Armenian: “Հնդկաչին”
  • Asturian: “Indochina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hind-Çin”
  • Bashkir: “Һинд-Ҡытай”
  • Basque: “Indotxina”
  • Bavarian: “Indochina”
  • Belarusian: “Індакітай”
  • Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Індакітай”
  • Bengali: “ইন্দোচীন”
  • Bosnian: “Indokina”
  • Breton: “Indez-Sina”
  • Bulgarian: “Индокитай”
  • Burmese: “အရှေ့တောင်အာရှ ကျွန်းဆွယ်ဒေသ”
  • Catalan: “Indoxina”
  • Central Bikol: “Indotsina”
  • Chechen: “ХӀиндоций”
  • Chinese: “中南半岛”
  • Chinese: “中南半島”
  • Chuvash: “Индокитай”
  • Corsican: “Induchina”
  • Croatian: “Indokina”
  • Czech: “Indočína”
  • Danish: “Indokina”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hindoçin”
  • Dutch: “Indochina”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الصين الهنديه”
  • Esperanto: “Hindoĉinio”
  • Estonian: “Indohiina poolsaar”
  • Finnish: “Indokiina”
  • French: “Indochine”
  • Galician: “Indochina”
  • Georgian: “ინდოჩინეთი”
  • German: “Indochina”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌸𐌰”
  • Greek: “Ινδοκίνα”
  • Guarani: “Indochina”
  • Guarani: “Indochína”
  • Hebrew: “הודו-סין”
  • Hindi: “हिन्दचीन”
  • Hungarian: “Indokína”
  • Iban: “Tanah besai Asia Tenggara”
  • Icelandic: “Indókína”
  • Ido: “Indochinia”
  • Iloko: “Indotsina”
  • Indonesian: “Asia Tenggara Daratan”
  • Indonesian: “Indochina”
  • Irish: “An Ind-Sín”
  • Italian: “Indocina”
  • Japanese: “インドシナ半島”
  • Kannada: “ಇಂಡೋ - ಚೀನ”
  • Kannada: “ಇಂಡೋ-ಚೀನ”
  • Kazakh: “Үндіқытай түбегі”
  • Khmer: “អាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍ដីគោក”
  • Khmer: “ឥណ្ឌូចិន”
  • Kirghiz: “Индикытай”
  • Kirghiz: “Индокытай”
  • Korean: “인도차이나반도”
  • Lao: “ອິນດູຈີນ”
  • Latin: “Paeninsula Indosinensis”
  • Latvian: “Indoķīna”
  • Latvian: “Indoķīnas pussala”
  • Literary Chinese: “中南半島”
  • Literary Chinese: “印度支那”
  • Lithuanian: “Indokinijos pusiasalis”
  • Macedonian: “Индокина”
  • Malagasy: “Indôsina”
  • Malay: “Indochina”
  • Malay: “Tanah besar Asia Tenggara”
  • Malayalam: “ഇന്തോ-ചൈന”
  • Mazanderani: “هندوچین جزیرەمونا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ìn-tō͘-chi-ná”
  • Minangkabau: “Indochina”
  • Mingrelian: “ინდოჩინეთი”
  • Mongolian: “Энэтхэг-Хятадын хойг”
  • Nepali: “हिन्दचीन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Indosjiina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Indokina”
  • Norwegian: “Indokina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Indochina”
  • Ossetian: “Индокитай”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੇਨਲੈਂਡ ਸਾਊਥ ਈਸਟ ਏਸ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “هندوچین”
  • Polish: “Indochiny”
  • Portuguese: “Indochina”
  • Romanian: “Indochina”
  • Russian: “Индокитай”
  • Scots: “Indocheenae”
  • Serbian: “Indokina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Francuska Indokina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Indokina”
  • Sicilian: “Indocina”
  • Slovak: “Indočína”
  • Slovenian: “Indokina”
  • Slovenian: “Indokitajski polotok”
  • Spanish: “Indochina”
  • Sundanese: “Daratan Asia Kidul Wétan”
  • Sundanese: “Indochina”
  • Swahili: “Indochina”
  • Swedish: “Indokina”
  • Tagalog: “Indotsina”
  • Tajik: “Ҳиндучин”
  • Tamil: “இந்தோசீனா”
  • Thai: “อินโดจีน”
  • Turkish: “Hindiçin”
  • Ukrainian: “Індокитай”
  • Urdu: “ہند چینی”
  • Urdu: “ہندچین”
  • Uzbek: “Hindixitoy”
  • Venetian: “Indocina”
  • Vietnamese: “bán đảo Đông Dương”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Đông Dương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Indotsina”
  • Welsh: “Indo-Tsieina”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndo-Sina”
  • Western Frisian: “Yndosina”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہند چینی”
  • Wu Chinese: “中南半岛”
  • Yakut: “Индокытай”
  • Yue Chinese: “中南半島”

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