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Definition of Indochina

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

Definition of Indochina

1. Proper noun. The former French colonial part of Southeast Asia comprising the peninsula containing Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indochina

Literary usage of Indochina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank, Lewis B. Ware, Air University (U.S.). Press (1988)
"Indochina The current conflict in Kampuchea (Cambodia)* is the most complex ... Indochina and ASEAN make up the next layer in the Indochina conflict—the ..."

2. Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts Over Land and Religion in Vietnam's by Sidney Jones, Malcolm Smart (2002)
"... Indochina War: 1960-1975 Much of the US bombing campaign and many of the fiercest battles of the Second Indochina War, also known as the American War, ..."

3. Across the Reef: The Amphibious Tracked Vehicle at War by Victor J. Croizat (2001)
"In the United States, the public was even less aware of Indochina, although there were a few who remembered that it was the Japanese entry into Indochina in ..."

4. CIA and Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968 by Harold P. Ford (1999)
"Yet if they quit and Indochina falls to Commies, it is easily possible that the entire Southeast Asia and Indonesia will go, soon to be followed by India.34 ..."

5. United States and Vietnam 1787-1941 by Robert Hopkins Miller (1994)
"With the direct threat of Japanese aggression against Indochina, that country finally got the attention of American officials. ..."

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