Aurea Chersonesus
ἡ χρυσῆ χερρόνησος
Aurea Chersonesus (ἡ χρυσῆ χερρόνησος), in India extra Gangem, is supposed to correspond to the peninsula of Malacca. There is also an Aurea Regio (ἡ χρυσῆ χώρα) in that part of the world. For particulars, see INDIA
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.