| LC control no. | n 50055276 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | French Indochina |
| Variant(s) | Indochina, French Fédération indochinoise Indochine French Indo-China Indochine française Đông Dương thuộc Pháp Indochinese Union Union indochinoise Liên bang Đông Dương Indochinese Federation Liên đoàn Đông Dương |
| See also | Tonkin Annam Cochin China Cambodia Laos Vietnam (Associated State) |
| Other standard no. | Q185682 0000000121834360 149958130 |
| Beginning date | 1887 |
| Ending date | 1954 |
| Associated country | France |
| Associated place | Southeast Asia |
| Special note | SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a subject. Works about this place are entered under Indochina. Includes the old catalog heading: Indochina (Federation) |
| Found in | Enc. Brit., 15th ed. (Indochina; name given to area consisting of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (Kampuchea); French first considered it as an entity and ruled it from mid-19th to mid-20th cent. After World War II, the French founded the Indochina Federation. In 1949-50 the French ratified separate treaties that recognized Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as independent states within the French Union) Collier's enc., 1973 (French Indochina) Enc. Americana, internat. ed., c1975 (French Indochina) Journal officiel de la Fédération indochinoise, 27 décembre 1945. Journal officiel de l'Indochine, 4 janvier 1951. Dennery, É. The economic relations of French Indo-China, 1933? Norden, H. A wanderer in Indo-China, 1931. Robequain, C. L'évolution économique de l'Indochine française, 1939. Wikipedia, November 25, 2020 (French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China) (French: Indochine française; Vietnamese: Đông Dương thuộc Pháp), officially known as the Indochinese Union (French: Union indochinoise; Vietnamese: Liên bang Đông Dương) from 1887 and the Indochinese Federation (French: Fédération indochinoise; Vietnamese: Liên đoàn Đông Dương) after 1947, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954. It comprised three Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south, Cambodia, Laos (from 1899) and the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945). The capital for most of its history (1902-45) was Hanoi; Saigon was the capital from 1887 to 1902 and again from 1945 to 54) |
| Geographic area code | ai----- |
| Associated language | fre vie |
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