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Vietnam: The port of Saigon in 1881, from an engraving by Charles Barbant (1844-1921) after Hubert Clerget (1818-1899)

Vietnam: The port of Saigon in 1881, from an engraving by Charles Barbant (1844-1921) after Hubert Clerget (1818-1899)

French Indochina (French: Indochine française; Khmer: សហភាព​ឥណ្ឌូចិន, Vietnamese: Đông Dương thuộc Pháp, frequently abbreviated to Đông Pháp) was part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of the three Vietnamese regions, Tonkin (North), Annam (Central), and Cochinchina (South), as well as Cambodia, was formed in 1887.

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