Hanoi
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Hanoi is the capital and second-most populous centrally-governed city of Vietnam. It covers an area of 3,358.6 km2, and as of 2025 has a population of 8,807,523. Hanoi had the second-highest gross reg
Hanoi skyline with Ba Vi Mountain
Hoan Kiem Lake 1
Hanoi Temple of Literature
Hanoi Opera House, 24 December 2016
French Indochina
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French Indochina, officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1941 as the Indochinese Federation, was a group of French-dependent territories in Southeast Asia from 1887 to 1954. It was initia
Hanoi
…name until 1789. In 1802, the Nguyễn dynasty moved the national capital to Huế and the city was renamed Hanoi in 1831. Hanoi served as the capital of French Indochina from 1902 to 1945 and of the French protectorate of Tonkin from 1883 to 1949. After the August Revolution and the fall of the Nguyễn dynasty, the…
The Presidential Palace, in Hanoi, built between 1900 and 1906 to house the governor-general of Indochina
French colonial inspector and local on top of an elephant in Phnom Penh in 1896.
The heads of Duong Be, Tu Binh and Doi Nhan decapitated by the French on 8 July 1908 in the Hanoi Poison Plot
A report by the Viện cơ mật on the financial and military aid given by the Nguyễn dynasty to Great France in the year Khải Định 2 (1917). Note how the document ends with the phrases Đại Pháp vạn tuế, Đông Dương vạn tuế (大法萬歲, 東洋萬歲).