Funan

Ancient kingdom in Indochina

Funan was a loose network of ancient Indianized states (mandalas) located in Mainland Southeast Asia, covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, that existed from the 1st to the 7th century CE. It was located southwest of Linyi, the Chinese designation for the historical region of Champa in present-day central and southern Vietnam. Funan is generally considered the first known kingdom in Southeast Asia. Funan is known in the ancient languages of the region as Suvarnabhumi, from Sanskrit, meaning "land of gold", and in Chinese as 扶南 (pinyin: Fúnán).

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