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Vietnam / France: The Annamite ambassadors received at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 1878

Vietnam / France: The Annamite ambassadors received at the Elysee Palace in Paris, 1878

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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