Etymology

Indochina

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Today it means: A peninsula and geographic region of Southeast Asia, consisting of the mainland portion, not including islands such as those of Indonesia. Full definition →

French Indochine
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  1. French · derived fromIndochine
  2. English todayIndochina

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.