English Explanatory Dictionary

Zomia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.

Word forms

Zomia

Etymology

Coined by Dutch historian Willem van Schendel in 2002 on the basis of the Kuki-Chin roots zo ‘hill’ and mi ‘person’.

Derived words

Zomian
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