Chin Lin

{{Short description|1st–6th century political entities}}

{{Infobox country

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| conventional_long_name = Chin Lin/Kim Lin
({{lang|zh|金鄰/金邻国}})
({{lang|th|จินหลิน/กิมหลิน}})

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| era = 9 CE -3rd centuries CE

| year_start = 9 CE

| year_end = c. 3rd century CE

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| capital = Mueang Uthong?

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| religion = {{Hlist|Buddhism|Brahmanism{{rp|27, 28}}}}

| p1 = Mon kingdoms{{!}}Mon city-states

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| s1 = Dvaravati

| s2 = Chen Li Fu

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{{Location map+ | Thailand

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{{Location map~ | Thailand

| lat_deg = 16.434

| lon_deg = 97.671

| label = Chin Lin?

| position = right

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{{Location map~ | Thailand

| lat_deg = 14.373

| lon_deg = 99.891

| label = Chin Lin?

| position = right

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| image_map_caption = Proposed locations of Chin Lin

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Chin Lin or Kim Lin ({{lang-zh|金鄰/金邻}}; {{langx|th|จินหลิน/กิมหลิน}}; {{lit|golden/wealthy neighbor}}) was an ancient political entities in modern lower central Thailand exited from the 9 CE to the 3rd century.{{rp|27}}

In the 3rd century CE, after defeating Tun Sun to control the trans-Kra Isthmus trade route and encircle Chin Lin,{{rp|20, 25}}{{rp|258}} king Fan Man of Funan attempted to seize Chin Lin,{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25222785|title=Tun-Sun (頓 遜)|author=Paul Wheatley|journal=The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland|date=1956|issue=1/2 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|url-access=subscription|pages=17–30|jstor=25222785 |archivedate=26 April 2024|archiveurl=https://archive.org/details/tunsun}}{{rp|20}} but failed due to his illness.{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4525378|title=Geographical Notes. VII. Tun-Sun 頓遜 or Tian-Sun 典遜 Tĕnasserim or Tānah-Sāri|date=1899|volume=10|issue=1|author=Gustaaf Schlegel|journal=T'oung Pao|pages=33–38 |publisher=Brill Publishers|jstor=4525378 |url-access=subscription|archivedate=26 April 2024|archiveurl=https://archive.org/details/tian-sun}}{{rp|258}}{{rp|269}}

The city "Balangka, an inland town" ({{lang|th|บลังกา}}), mentioned in the Geographike Hyphegesis of Ptolemy in the 2nd century, has been assumed by Thai scholars to have been Mueang Uthong, the center of Chin Lin.{{cite book|url=https://www.finearts.go.th/storage/contents/2022/11/file/mcpd33eEWS9MvfPoHfCcII65qwbmCUAG4DUnaWRO.pdf|title=โบราณวิทยาเรื่องเมืองอู่ทอง|page=232|place=Bangkok|trans-title=Archaeology of U Thong City|author=Fine Arts Department|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241110084007/https://www.finearts.go.th/storage/contents/2022/11/file/mcpd33eEWS9MvfPoHfCcII65qwbmCUAG4DUnaWRO.pdf |archive-date=2024-11-10 |language=th}}{{rp|94}}