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[[Image:IndoChina1886.jpg|thumb|300px|Indochina 1886]]
'''Indochina''' or '''Indo-China''' is a peninsula in [[Southeast Asia]]<ref name="HMDOG">{{cite book|title=The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary Of Geography|year=1997|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|isbn=0-395-86448-8|editor=Marion Severynse}}</ref> lying roughly southwest of [[China]], and east of [[India]]. The name has its origins in the French ''Indochine'' as a combination of the names of "India" and "China", referring to the location of the territory between those two countries, though the majority of people in the region are neither Chinese nor Indian. The term may also be used in [[biogeography]] for the "Indochinese Region", a major biogeographical region within the [[Indomalaya ecozone]].

The countries of mainland Southeast Asia received cultural influence from both India and China to varying degrees.<ref name="HMDOG"/> Some cultures, such as those of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are influenced mainly by India with a smaller influence from China. Others, such as Vietnam, are more heavily influenced by Chinese culture with only minor cultural influences from India, largely via the [[Champa]] civilization that Vietnam conquered during its southward expansion.

The historical term [[French Indochina]] was a federation of French colonies and protectorates, that France named [[Cochinchina]], [[Tonkin]], [[Annam]], [[Laos]] and [[Cambodia]]. France had an imperial presence in the region between 1884 and 1954. France withdrew from southeast Asia following the loss of the [[Indochina War]].

Indochina had boundaries imposed by France as a result of military conquests in the region, encompassing areas that are now modern Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The subjects of the colony were not homogenous; rather, Indochina was a "separate entity, it was largely unrelated to the cultural, geographical, and racial elements which shaped the people and governments of its constituent parts".<ref>{{cite book|last=St. John|first=Robert Bruce|title=The land boundaries of Indochina: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam|year=1998|publisher=IBRU|isbn=9781897643327|pages=1|edition=Boundary and territory briefing|editor=Clive H. Schofield}}</ref>

==Geography==
The former historical territories of [[French Indochina]] comprise the following:
* [[Cambodia]]
* [[Laos]]
* [[Vietnam]]

The broader geographic and cultural region otherwise known as '''Mainland Southeast Asia''' further includes:
* [[Burma]] (also ''Myanmar''—part of [[British Raj|British India]] until 1937)
* [[Thailand]] (formerly Siam)
* [[Peninsular Malaysia]]
* sometimes [[Singapore]]

===Biogeography===
Although the name "Indochina" is today a political [[anachronism]], it is still sometimes used to refer to the "Indochinese Region" to mean a major [[biogeography|biogeographical]] region in the [[Indomalaya ecozone]], and also a [[phytogeography|phytogeographical]] [[floristic region]] in the [[Paleotropical Kingdom]]. It includes the native flora and fauna of all the countries above. The adjacent [[Malesia|Malesian Region]] covers  the [[Maritime Southeast Asia]]n countries, and straddles the Indomalaya and [[Australasian ecozone]]s.

==See also==
{{Portal|Asia}}
{{Commons category multi|Indochina|Flora of Indochinese Region}}
*[[Chindia]]
*[[ASEAN]]
*[[East Indies]]
*[[French Indochina]]
*[[Malay Peninsula]]
*[[Maritime Southeast Asia]]
*[[Indochina War]]
*[[Indochina Time]] UTC+7
*[[Serindia]]
*[[Zomia (geography)]]
*[[Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area]]
*[[Cochinchina]]
*[[Annam|Annam (French protectorate)]]
*[[Tonkin]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADG750.pdf History of the mountain people of southern Indochina up to 1945 (Bernard Bourotte, i.e. Jacques Méry, U.S. Agency for International Development, 195?]

==External links==
*{{en icon}} {{fr icon}} [http://www.wdl.org/en/item/2392 The Colonization of Indochina] from 1892
*{{ro icon}} [http://www.indochina.ro www.indochina.ro] Romanian travel site for Indochina
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[[Category:Geography of Southeast Asia]]
[[Category:Peninsulas of Asia]]
[[Category:Regions of Asia]]
[[Category:Flora of Indochina| ]]
[[Category:Indomalaya ecozone]]
[[Category:Paleotropical flora]]
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