Indochina
The term Indochina broadly describes the mainland areas of Southeast Asia , south of China and east of the Indian subcontinent . It was first used by the Danish-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826) in his work "Précis de la Géographie Universelle", published in Paris in 1810 . This was to express the formative cultural influence of India and China on the peoples and countries of continental Southeast Asia.
In a political sense, Indochina comprised the areas of today's countries Laos , Cambodia and Vietnam , which were incorporated into the French colonial empire from 1887 as " Union Indochinoise " - " French Indochina " .
In geography , the term is retained as a designation for the Indochinese Peninsula .
Indochina is still used in biogeography for an ecoregion that includes part of the Orientalis (Indomalayis), or in phytogeography for a region of the flora kingdom Paleotropic .
In political and cultural terms, instead of Indochina in the broader sense (that is, in addition to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar , sometimes also the peninsular part of Malaysia and the extreme south of China), today it is more of the "Southeast Asian mainland" , "Mainland Southeast Asia " or "Continental Southeast Asia " (to English Mainland Southeast Asia ) spoken.
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- Sylvain Lévi : Indochine. Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris 1931.