Nam Bo
| French Cochin-china | ||||||||||||
| Cochinchine française | ||||||||||||
| Colony of France Constituent territory of French Indochina |
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 1886 map of colonial Indochina
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| Capital | Saigon | |||||||||||
| Languages |
Khmer Cham Chinese French Vietnamese |
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| Religion |
Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) Confucianism Taoism Roman Catholicism Animism Islam |
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| Political structure | Colony | |||||||||||
| Historical era | New Imperialism | |||||||||||
| • | Established in accordance with Treaty of Saigon | 5 June 1862 | ||||||||||
| • | Merged to the Central Government | 4 June 1949 | ||||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||||
| • | 1868 | 65,478 km² (25,281 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||||
| • | 1868 est. | 1,214,141 | ||||||||||
| Density | 18.5 /km² (48 /sq mi) | |||||||||||
| • | 1939 est. | 4,484,000 | ||||||||||
| Density | 68.5 /km² (177.4 /sq mi) | |||||||||||
| Currency | French Indochinese piastre | |||||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Vietnam
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| a. Population figure taken from P. Gubry, Population et développement au Viêt-nam (2000), p. 44. | ||||||||||||
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French Cochinchina, or Nam Kỳ, was a colony of French Indochina, encompassing the Cochinchina region of southern Vietnam.
For a series of complex reasons, the French government of Napoleon III, with the help of Spanish troops arriving from the colonial Philippines in the Spanish East Indies, invaded the southern part of Vietnam, then known in the West as Cochinchina. In September 1858, France occupied Đà Nẵng (Tourane). On 18 February 1859, they conquered Saigon and three southern Vietnamese provinces: Biên Hòa, Gia Định and Định Tường; the Vietnamese government was forced to cede those territories to France in June 1862.
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