Kampuchea Krom
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Kampuchea Krom is a region variously known by terms such as Southern Vietnam, Nam Kỳ, and the former French Cochinchina. Bordering present-day Cambodia, the region is positioned in Cambodian irredenti
Six Provinces of Nam Bộ during the Nguyễn dynasty before 1841
Photograph taken by Emile Gsell of the early stages of the Cho Gao Canal Project
French Cochinchina
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French Cochinchina was a colony of French Indochina from 1862 to 1949, encompassing the Mekong Delta and adjacent provinces in what is now the southern region of Vietnam, with its administrative capit
Kampuchea Krom
…Krom (Khmer: កម្ពុជាក្រោម, Kâmpŭchéa Kraôm ; "Lower Cambodia") is a region variously known by terms such as Southern Vietnam, Nam Kỳ, and the former French Cochinchina. Bordering present-day Cambodia, the region is positioned in Cambodian irredentist narratives as a "once-integral part of the Khmer Kingdom that was…
Capture of Saigon by France
The six provinces of Lower Cochinchina, 1863.
Celebrations of the inauguration of Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina, June 1946, Saigon. A man waves the French tricolour and the three-striped Cochinchina flag.
Cochinchina in 1829 under Nguyễn Dynasty