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What was the ancient name of Laos?

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Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Myanmar (also known as Burma) and the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west. read more

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LAOS. By Tim Lambert. Ancient Laos. The earliest inhabitants of Laos were hunter-gatherers. Later they were farmers growing rice and pulses. read more

The ethnicities known today as Lao or Thai emerged not prior to the nineteenth century. The modern nation-state Laos emerged from the French Colonial Empire as an independent country in 1953. Laos exists in truncated form from the thirteenth century Lao kingdom of Lan Xang. read more

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