Chenla (; ; ) is the Chinese designation for the successor polity of
Funan that existed from around the late 6th century until the early 9th century in
Indochina, preceding the
Khmer Empire. The name was still used in the 13th century by the Chinese envoy
Zhou Daguan, author of
The Customs of Cambodia. However modern historiography applies the name exclusively to the period from the late 6th to the early 9th century.