Zomia

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geographical term coined in 2002 to refer to the huge mass of mainland Southeast Asia that has historically been beyond the control of governments based in the population centers of the lowlands.

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An academic term for the heavily mountainous zone of southwest China and Southeast Asia where people historically hid out from the state, borrowed from Pierre Clastres.