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1886 map of Indochina, from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. In Indian sources, the earliest name connected with Southeast Asia is Yāvadvīpa []. [1] Another possible early name of mainland Southeast Asia was Suvarṇabhūmi ("land of gold"), [1] [2] a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, [3] but which, along with Suvarṇadvīpa ("island" or ...
The Northern Indochina subtropical forests in the Nu Mountains, a southwestern component range of the Hengduan in Yunnan Additionally, the lowest elevation portions of the Jinsha (Yangtze) River and Nu (Salween) River valleys in the southern Hengduan ranges are classified by the Chinese government as a tropical savanna environment.
Yunnan is China's fourth least developed province based on disposable income per capita in 2014. [7] Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with high elevations in the Northwest and low elevations in the Southeast. Most of the population lives in the eastern part of the province.
The late 19th-century French explorers were able to travel up the Red River until Manhao in South Yunnan, and then overland toward Kunming. [5] The Red River remained the main commercial travel route between the French Indochina and Yunnan until the opening of the Kunming–Haiphong Railway in 1910.
The meter-gauge rail line, only completed by around 1911, was designed by the French so that they could tap into Yunnan's mineral resources for their colonies in Indochina. Kunming was a communications center during this time and a junction of two major trading routes, one westward via Dali and Tengchong County into Myanmar , the other ...
The Shandong peninsula of China. The peninsulas of China by province or region: Liaoning. Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) [1] Shandong.
Niah Cave entrance at sunset. The region was already inhabited by Homo erectus from approximately 1,500,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene age. [22] Data analysis of stone tool assemblages and fossil discoveries from Indonesia, Southern China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and more recently Cambodia [23] and Malaysia [24] has established Homo erectus migration routes and episodes of ...
Greater Yunnan is an ill-defined term which refers to Yunnan, China. [1] In the fifteenth century, the region encompassed parts of Northern Southeast Asia and Northeast India . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Some scholars use the term not to describe a geographical region centering mainly around Yunnan, but rather to describe China's modern influence over most of ...