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vania asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 10 years ago

who owns indochina today?

it was french during imperialistic era but, is indochina today part of both india and china or just china? sorry if it is a dumb question but i need to tell someone the correct data and i don't have it ....

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  • 10 years ago
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    The only people who own it are the people who live there.

    "Indochina" referred to the countries of Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Laos, and Cambodia. This territory was once controlled through history by a patchwork of nations, but primarily Great Britain and France. Today, however, these countries are independent nations, and they control themselves.

  • Randal
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    In a strict sense, Indochina comprises the territory of the former French Indochina:

    Cambodia

    Laos

    Vietnam

    However, in a wider sense, the cultural region is better described as Mainland Southeast Asia in which sense it also includes:

    Burma (also Myanmar—part of British India until 1937)

    Singapore (also considered part of Maritime Southeast Asia if the Johor-Singapore Causeway is not taken into account)

    Thailand (formerly Siam)

    And, sometimes, Peninsular Malaysia

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    I hope this information from the referenced Wikipedia article is helpful.

  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Those nations are all independent now, the French no longer have control.

  • 10 years ago

    Yes, all the countries are independent today.

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