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Indochina: Regional review

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Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology

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Indochina is a term that has long been used to describe the area of the Asian continent E of India and S of China. More specifically, it came to refer to the territories brought under French colonial administration in the 19th century, now comprising the independent nations of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (Fig. 314). It is in this sense that the term is used here.

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Location map of Indochina.

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Fontaine, H., Workman, D.R. (1997). Indochina: Regional review. In: Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4495-X_48

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