INDOCHINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indochina mean? 

• INDOCHINA (noun)
  The noun INDOCHINA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam

  Familiarity information: INDOCHINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDOCHINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Indochina"):

Burma; Myanmar; Union of Burma (a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal)

Cambodia; Kampuchea; Kingdom of Cambodia (a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946)

French Indochina (the French colonies of the territory now occupied by Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam)

Lao People's Democratic Republic; Laos (a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949)

Federation of Malaysia; Malaysia (a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957)

Kingdom of Thailand; Siam; Thailand (a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula)

Annam; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Viet Nam; Vietnam (a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945)

Holonyms ("Indochina" is a part of...):

Southeast Asia (a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore)