Farther India , Further India , or Ultraindia , is an old term, now rarely used, for Southeast Asia , seen in colonial days from Europe as the part of the Far East beyond the Indian subcontinent , but south of China.
13-689: MSEA may refer to: Mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area Magadh Stock Exchange Association Maine State Employees Association , the public sector union in Maine MapleStory Southeast Asia Metabolite Set Enrichment Analysis , a bioinformatics tool Minnesota School Employees Association , an independent public sector union of classified (non-certified) public school staff in Minnesota. Topics referred to by
26-764: A north–south direction: the Irrawaddy (serving Myanmar ), the Chao Phraya (in Thailand ), and the Mekong (flowing through Northeastern Thailand , Laos , Cambodia and Vietnam ). To the south it forms the Malay Peninsula , located on which are Southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia ; the latter is variably considered part of Mainland Southeast Asia or separately as part of Maritime Southeast Asia . Mainland Southeast Asia contrasts with Maritime Southeast Asia , mainly through
39-630: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia (historically known as Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula ) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia . It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to
52-551: Is predominantly Buddhist with minority Muslim and Hindu populations. Further India It refers to Indochina ( Cambodia , Laos , Myanmar (aka Burma ), Peninsular Malaysia , Thailand (former Siam ), and Vietnam ) and the Malay states ( Brunei , East Malaysia , Indonesia and Singapore ), but usually not including East Timor or the Philippines ; these neighbouring predominantly Malay states usually belong to
65-641: The colony of French Indochina (covering present-day Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam), use of the term became more restricted to the French colony, and today the area is usually referred to as Mainland Southeast Asia. In biogeography , the Indochinese bioregion is a major region in the Indomalayan realm , and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Oriental Paleotropical Kingdom . It includes
78-533: The course of history and share a number of typological similarities. The countries of mainland Southeast Asia received cultural influence from both India and China to varying degrees. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand are all influenced by Indian culture , only Vietnam is influenced by Chinese culture but still has minor influences from India, largely via the Champa civilization that Vietnam conquered during its southward expansion. Overall, Mainland Southeast Asia
91-933: The division of largely land-based lifestyles in Indochina and the sea-based lifestyles of the Indonesian archipelago and Philippine archipelago , as well as the dividing line between the Austroasiatic , Tai–Kadai , and Sino-Tibetan languages (spoken in Mainland Southeast Asia) and the Austronesian languages (spoken in Maritime Southeast Asia). The languages of the mainland form the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area : although belonging to several independent language families, they have converged over
104-447: The east. It includes the countries of Cambodia , Laos , Myanmar , Thailand and Vietnam as well as Peninsular Malaysia . The term Indochina (originally Indo-China ) was coined in the early nineteenth century, emphasizing the historical cultural influence of Indian and Chinese civilizations on the area. The term was later adopted as the name of the colony of French Indochina (today's Cambodia , Laos , and Vietnam ). Today,
117-522: The name Indo-China are usually attributed jointly to the Danish-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun , who referred to the area as indo-chinois in 1804, and the Scottish linguist John Leyden , who used the term Indo-Chinese to describe the area's inhabitants and their languages in 1808. Scholarly opinions at the time regarding China's and India's historical influence over the area were conflicting, and
130-669: The native flora and fauna of all the countries above. The adjacent Malesian Region covers the Maritime Southeast Asian countries, and straddles the Indomalayan and Australasian realms . The Indochinese Peninsula projects southward from the Asian continent proper. It contains several mountain ranges extending from the Tibetan Plateau in the north, interspersed with lowlands largely drained by three major river systems running in
143-404: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title MSEA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MSEA&oldid=917071568 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1733085325450156-543: The term Mainland Southeast Asia , in contrast to Maritime Southeast Asia , is more commonly referenced. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa [ ms ] . Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or "peninsula of gold"), are also thought to refer to insular Southeast Asia. The origins of
169-519: The term was itself controversial—Malte-Brun himself later argued against its use in a later edition of his Universal Geography , reasoning that it overemphasized Chinese influence, and suggested Chin-India instead. Nevertheless, Indo-China had already gained traction and soon supplanted alternative terms such as Further India and the Peninsula beyond the Ganges . Later, however, as the French established
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