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    INDOCHINA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnamplay

    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)

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