The term
Champa refers to a collection of independent
Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is today central and southern
Vietnam from approximately the 7th century through 19th century (1832), before being absorbed and annexed by the Vietnamese state. The kingdom was known variously as
nagara Campa (
Sanskrit; ) in the
Chamic and
Cambodian inscriptions, in
Vietnamese (
Chiêm Thành in
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary) and (Zhànchéng) in Chinese records.