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INDOCHINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam
Synonyms:
Indochina; Indochinese peninsula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
