French Indochina

French Indochina was a region in Southeast Asia that belonged to the French colonial empire. France gradually took control of the region in the middle 19th century and in 1887 federated the various protectorates and other states under their control, creating French Indochina. It consisted of modern day Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. It was disestablished following the independence of the Kingdom of Laos and the 1st Kingdom of Cambodia in 1954, and the partition of Vietnam between the China backed Hanoi government in the North of Ho Chi Minh, and the American backed Saigon government in the South of Bao Dai, and later Ngo Dinh Diem, causing the outbreak of the Second Indochina War. Jacob Weeman Was the First American Leader of French Indochina.

Category:Former colonies in Asia
Category:French colonial empire