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: Continental Southeast Asia”, “Further India”, “Indo-China”, “Indochinese Peninsula”, “Mainland Southeast Asia”, “SE Asia”, and “Southeast Asia

Indochina

Latitude of center
16° north
Longitude of center
102° east
Population
243,000,000
Wiki­data ID
Q43467
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Indochina” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Indôchina
  • Afrikaans: Indo-China
  • Afrikaans: Indosjina
  • Angika: इंडोचायना
  • Arabic: الهند الصينية
  • Arabic: الهند الصينيه
  • Arabic: جنوب شرق آسيا البري
  • Armenian: Հնդկաչին
  • Asturian: Indochina
  • Azerbaijani: Hind-Çin
  • Bashkir: Һинд-Ҡытай
  • Basque: Indotxina
  • Basque: Indotxinako penintsula
  • Bavarian: Indochina
  • Belarusian: Індакітай
  • Belarusian: Паўвостраў Індакітай
  • Bengali: ইন্দোচীন
  • Bosnian: Indokina
  • Bosnian: Indokineski poluotok
  • Breton: Indez-Sina
  • Bulgarian: Индокитай
  • Burmese: အရှေ့တောင်အာရှ ကျွန်းဆွယ်ဒေသ
  • Catalan: Indo-xina
  • Catalan: Indoxina
  • Catalan: Península d’Indoxina
  • Central Bikol: Indotsina
  • Chechen: ХӀиндоций
  • Chinese: Ìn-tō͘-chi-ná
  • Chinese: 中南半岛
  • Chinese: 中南半島
  • Chinese: 中印半島
  • Chinese: 印度支那半島
  • Chinese: 印支半島
  • Chinese: 東南亞半島
  • Chinese: 陆地东南亚
  • Chinese: 陸地東南亞
  • Chuvash: Индокитай çурутравĕ
  • Chuvash: Индокитай
  • Corsican: Induchina
  • Corsican: Inducina
  • Croatian: Indokina
  • Croatian: Indokineski poluotok
  • Czech: Indočína
  • Danish: Bagindien
  • Danish: Indokina
  • Dimli (individual language): Hindoçin
  • Dutch: Indo-China
  • Dutch: Indochina
  • Dutch: Indochinees Schiereiland
  • Egyptian Arabic: الصين الهنديه
  • Egyptian Arabic: الهند الصينيه
  • Esperanto: Hindoĉina duoninsulo
  • Esperanto: Hindoĉinio
  • Esperanto: Hindoĉinujo
  • Estonian: Indo-Hiina poolsaar
  • Estonian: Indo-Hiina
  • Estonian: Indohiina poolsaar
  • Estonian: Indohiina
  • Finnish: Indokiina
  • Finnish: Taka-Intia
  • French: Asie du Sud-Est continentale
  • French: Indochine
  • French: L’Indochine
  • French: La Péninsule indochinoise
  • French: Péninsule Indochinoise
  • Galician: Indochina
  • Georgian: ინდო-ჩინეთი
  • Georgian: ინდოჩინეთი
  • German: Indochina
  • Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌺𐌹𐌸𐌰
  • Greek: Ινδοκίνα
  • Guarani: Indochina
  • Guarani: Indochína
  • Hebrew: הודו סין
  • Hebrew: הודו-סין
  • Hebrew: חצי האי הודו-סין
  • Hindi: इंडोचाइना
  • Hindi: इंडोचायना
  • Hindi: इण्डोचाइना
  • Hindi: इण्डोचायना
  • Hindi: हिन्दचीन
  • Hungarian: Francia Indokína
  • Hungarian: Francia-Indokína
  • Hungarian: Indokína
  • Icelandic: Indókína
  • Ido: Indochinia
  • Iloko: Indo-Tsina
  • Iloko: Indotsina
  • Indonesian: Asia Tenggara Daratan
  • Indonesian: Indochina
  • Indonesian: Indocina
  • Irish: An Ind-Sín
  • Italian: Indocina
  • Italian: Penisola indocinese
  • Japanese: インドシナ半島
  • Japanese: 東南アジア本土
  • Kannada: ಇಂಡೋ - ಚೀನ
  • Kannada: ಇಂಡೋ-ಚೀನ
  • Kazakh: Үндіқытай түбегі
  • Kazakh: Үндіқытай
  • Khmer: អាស៊ីអាគ្នេយ៍ដីគោក
  • Khmer: អាសុីអាគ្នេយ៍ដីគោក
  • Khmer: ឥណ្ឌូចិន
  • Khmer: ឧបទ្វីបឥណ្ឌូចិន
  • Kirghiz: Индикытай
  • Kirghiz: Индокытай
  • Korean: 대륙 동남아시아
  • Korean: 인도지나 반도
  • Korean: 인도지나
  • Korean: 인도차이나
  • Korean: 인도차이나반도
  • Korean: 인디아지나 반도
  • Lao: ອິນດູຈີນ
  • Latin: Indosina
  • 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: Indo-China
  • Malay: Indochina
  • Malay: Tanah besar Asia Tenggara
  • Malayalam: Indochina
  • 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: Indo-Kina
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Indokina
  • Norwegian: Indokina
  • Occitan (post 1500): Indochina
  • Ossetian: Индокитай
  • Panjabi: Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Panjabi: ਮੇਨਲੈਂਡ ਸਾਊਥ ਈਸਟ ਏਸ਼ੀਆ
  • Persian: سرزمین اصلی جنوب شرق آسیا
  • Persian: هندوچین
  • Polish: Indochiny
  • Portuguese: Indochina
  • Portuguese: Península da Indochina
  • Portuguese: Península Indochinesa
  • Romanian: Indochina
  • Russian: Индо-Китай
  • Russian: Индокитай
  • Russian: Полуостров Индокитай
  • Scots: Indo-Cheenae
  • Scots: Indocheenae
  • Scots: Indocheenese Peninsula
  • Serbian: Indokina
  • Serbian: Kontinentalna jugoistočna Azija
  • Serbian: Индокина
  • Serbo-Croatian: Francuska Indokina
  • Serbo-Croatian: Indokina
  • Sicilian: Indo-Cina
  • Sicilian: Indocina
  • Slovak: Indočína
  • Slovenian: Indokina
  • Slovenian: Indokitajski polotok
  • Spanish: Indochina
  • Spanish: Peninsula de Indochina
  • Spanish: Península de Indochina
  • Spanish: Peninsula Indochina
  • Spanish: Península Indochina
  • Sundanese: Daratan Asia Kidul Wétan
  • Sundanese: Indochina
  • Sundanese: Indocina
  • Swahili: Indochina
  • Swedish: Bortre Indien
  • Swedish: Indokina
  • Swedish: Östra Indiska halvön
  • Tagalog: Indo-China
  • Tagalog: Indotsina
  • Tajik: Ҳиндучин
  • Tamil: இந்தோசீனா
  • Thai: คาบสมุทรอินโดจีน
  • Thai: แหลมอินโดจีน
  • Thai: อินโดจีน
  • Thai: เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้แผ่นดินใหญ่
  • Turkish: Çinhindi
  • Turkish: Hindiçin
  • Ukrainian: Індокитай
  • Ukrainian: Індокитайський півострів
  • Urdu: ہند چینی
  • Urdu: ہندچین
  • Uzbek: Hindixitoy
  • Venetian: Indocina
  • Vietnamese: Ấn Độ Chi Na
  • Vietnamese: Bán đảo Ấn-Hoa
  • Vietnamese: Bán đảo Ấn-Trung
  • Vietnamese: Bán đảo Đông Dương
  • Vietnamese: Bán đảo Trung Ấn
  • Vietnamese: Bán đảo Trung-Ấn
  • Vietnamese: Đông dương
  • Vietnamese: Ðông Dương
  • Vietnamese: Đông Nam Á đại lục
  • Vietnamese: Đông Nam Á lục địa
  • Vietnamese: Indochine
  • Waray (Philippines): Indotsina
  • Welsh: Indo Tsieina
  • Welsh: Indo-Tsieina
  • Welsh: Indotsieina
  • Western Frisian: Yndo-Sina
  • Western Frisian: Yndosina
  • Western Panjabi: انڈو چائنا
  • Western Panjabi: ہند چینی
  • Wu Chinese: 中南半岛
  • Yue Chinese: 中南半島

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