of gold'), a toponym, that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts, but which, along with [[Suvarnadvipa]] ('island' or 'peninsula of gold'), are also thought to refer to insular Southeast Asia.

The origins of 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