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Chin Lin/Kim Lin (金鄰/金邻国) (จินหลิน/กิมหลิน)
9 CE–c. 3rd century CE
Chin Lin?Chin Lin?Proposed locations of Chin Lin
Capital	Mueang Uthong?
Religion	Buddhism Brahmanism
Historical era	9 CE -3rd centuries CE
• Established	9 CE
• Disestablished	c. 3rd century CE
Preceded by Succeeded by Mon city-states Dvaravati
Today part of	Thailand Myanmar

Chin Lin or Kim Lin (Chinese: 金鄰/金邻; Thai: จินหลิน/กิมหลิน) was an ancient political entities in modern lower central Thailand exited from the 9 CE to the 3rd century.

In the 3rd century CE, after defeating Tun Sun to control the trans-Kra Isthmus trade route and encircle Chin Lin, king Fan Man of Funan attempted to seize Chin Lin, but failed due to his illness.

Location

The location of Chin Lin remains unclear. It was first mentioned around 9 – 22 CE during the late Western Han period, a Chinese emperor Wang Mang sent an embassy to visit Chin-lin. Later in the 3rd century, Chin Lin was again mentioned in the account of Funan king Fan Shih-man's conquests in the Chinese text Liáng Shū, which states that Chin Lin was located 3,000 li north of the kingdoms of Ta-k'un (Ch'ü-tu-k'un) and Chü-li (Chiu-chih), speculated to be Kou-chih of Kole polis in present-day near Kuantan of Malaysia. Palmer Briggs proposes that Chin-lin and its southern neighbor, Tun Sun, was the Mon countries. The boundary between this two entities was ill-defined, but probably not far above the present-Mergui-Tanintharyi Region.

References

1. ^ Paul Wheatley (1956). "Tun-Sun (頓 遜)". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1/2). Cambridge University Press: 17–30. JSTOR 25222785. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
2. ^ Lawrence Palmer Briggs (1950). "The Khmer Empire and the Malay Peninsula". The Far Eastern Quarterly. 9 (3). Duke University Press: 256–305. doi:10.2307/2049556. JSTOR 2049556. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.
3. Gustaaf Schlegel (1899). "Geographical Notes. VII. Tun-Sun 頓遜 or Tian-Sun 典遜 Tĕnasserim or Tānah-Sāri". T'oung Pao. 10 (1). Brill Publishers: 33–38. JSTOR 4525378. Archived from the original on 26 April 2024.

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