Mainland Southeast Asia

Mainland Southeast Asia
Indochinese Peninsula
Indochina

Population	243,201,036 (1 July 2019)
GDP (PPP)	$2.877 trillion (2021)
GDP (nominal)	$1.485 trillion (2022)
Countries	Cambodia  Laos  Malaysia  Myanmar (Burma)  Thailand  Vietnam

Mainland Southeast Asia (also known as Suvarnabhumi, 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 the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia.

The term Suvarnabhumi was coined during the reign of Emperor Ashoka between 268 to 232 BCE, when he instructed the spread of Buddhism outside the Indian subcontinent, where mainland Southeast Asia was referred as Suvarnabhumi.^[1] 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, the term Mainland Southeast Asia, in contrast to Maritime Southeast Asia, is more commonly referenced.