Talk:Cochinchina

message: There are a number of mistakes:
Almost all authorites use the two-word spelling Cochin China rather than Cochinchina. See   Encyclopedia Britannica, and Merriam Webster's Geographical Dictionary. Then try a Google search on the two spellings.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.21.71.253 (talk • contribs) 12:54, 13 November 2007
::"Almost all" is a pretty broad statement to make. If I remember correctly, all of the books I used for my MA dissertation this summer spelled the term as a single word "Cochinchina". These were professional academic works by scholars of Southeast Asian history, and I would trust them over general use dictionaries and encyclopedias, and over the assorted personal websites, blogs, business newspapers, and whatever else may come up on a Google search. More to the point, there is a lot of variation in Vietnamese place names (Tonkin/Tonking, Ha Noi/Hanoi, Da Nang/Danang, Viet Nam/Vietnam), and so while one spelling may be more common, that does not make the other ones "mistakes". LordAmeth 23:08, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: mistakes

message: Yes, Cochin China is the southern Part of Vietnam, locally also called Nam Bo.
No, it is not Jiaozhi (Vietnamese: Giao Chỉ).
At the time of the Chinese rule, Cochin China area was Khmer land.
Jiaozhi was called Tonkin, not Cochin China.
See the page History_of_Vietnam for the details.
Also the page about Wudi_of_Han_China says that his empire stretched only to the North of Vietnam, not the South of it.
The page about Zhao_Tuo says at the end something about the beginnings of Jiaozhi.
Stefan, living since 1990 in Hanoi
--210.245.53.3 15:12, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note that "Cochinchina" can refer not only to that southernmost region, the Khmer land, but also, in earlier times, to the area north of that, also known as Quang Nam, Quinam, or Dang Trong. LordAmeth 08:41, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: The article should say why Cochin China was named for a city in India.  Badagnani 02:52, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why named for Indian city? 

message: why this article does not have a suitable map (the current map is confusing) with the regular infobox flag, language, everything, and proper governement section as found in all other countries? Paris By Night 00:05, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: stub article?

message: The Wikipedia needs to be objective, but it also needs to incorporate more than one subjective view of this history:
Prior to 1949, the land belonged to Cambodia, and there are still political protests in the streets of Phnom Penh to have the land returned to Cambodia.  (Cf. Khmer Krom; this is currently a separate article about exactly the same "place", though the toponym Cochinchina was, of course, a colonial invention).
Every King of Cambodia during and since the French Protectorate has re-asserted the fact that the lower Mekong belonged to Cambodia since antiquity, and the last act of King Norodom Sihanouk was to re-assert this before his retirement.
There are plenty of published sources on all this.  And, as I have suggested, the history is ongoing.http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/06/khmer-krom-in-asylum-talks.html
Currently, this article is written almost as fiction, from a pro-Vietnamese perspective, with shockingly few citations for its supposedly factual claims.
I have a detached perspective on it; plenty of readers will simply respond with outrage.
So, my advice to the Wiki-editors is: flag it, revise it, demand citations, or else expect the worst.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.232.244.228 (talk) 16:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is Cochinchina, the French Indochina colony. Not the Cambodian colony, not the Chinese colony. South Vietnam's background subheading already has the Khmer history detailed.Norewritingofhistory (talk) 23:17, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't even mention Cambodia? 

message: I think it would be a good idea to split the article in two and have one page about Cochinchina proper as a historical region, and one called French Cochinchina, about the French colony. Not only were there political differences, but French Cochinchina was consisted only of the southern part of Cochinchina : what became known as Cochinchina after the French conquest was only called Lower Cochinchina before 1862. Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 12:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I had proposed this three years ago and completely forgotten about it. No one has raised any objections, so I guess there's no opposition ? Jean-Jacques Georges (talk) 14:57, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed split