Cochinchina

E16394

former colony historical region

Cochinchina was the southern region of Vietnam that became a French colony and later formed part of French Indochina.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former colony → historical region →
administrativeType	French colony → protectorate (earlier Vietnamese usage) →
alternativeName	Basse-Cochinchine → Nam Kỳ →
borderedBy	Cambodia → South China Sea →
capital	Saigon →
colonialAdministration	Gouverneur de la Cochinchine →
colonialPolicy	direct French rule →
colonialPower	France →
colonialStatus	French colony →
contains	Biên Hòa → Châu Đốc → Cần Thơ → Hà Tiên → Mỹ Tho → Saigon → Vĩnh Long →
country	Vietnam →
currency	piastre de commerce →
economicActivity	rice cultivation → rubber plantations →
endDate	1949 →
event	Treaty of Saigon (1862) → Treaty of Saigon (1874) →
geographicalFeature	Mekong Delta →
historicalEra	Age of Imperialism → French colonial period in Vietnam →
incorporatedInto	Union of Indochina (1887) →
language	French → Vietnamese →
locatedIn	Southeast Asia →
mergedInto	State of Vietnam →
metropole	French Fourth Republic → French Third Republic →
note	In European usage, sometimes referred to all of Vietnam, but later restricted to the southern region →
partOf	French Indochina → French colonial empire →
predecessor	Gia Định Province → Nguyễn dynasty →
religion	Buddhism → Roman Catholicism →
startDate	1862 →
successor	Republic of Vietnam → South Vietnam →
usedBy	European traders → Portuguese explorers →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Can Tho ("southern Vietnam") → Independence Palace ("Southern Vietnam") → Mekong Delta ("southern Vietnam") → War Remnants Museum ("Southern Vietnam") →	locatedIn
French Indochina → French Indochina ("Colony of Cochinchina") →	containsTerritory
Cần Thơ ("French Cochinchina") → Republic of Vietnam →	historicalRegion
August Revolution in Vietnam → Japanese coup d’état in French Indochina →	location
Treaty of Saigon (1862) → Treaty of Saigon (1874) →	locationSigned
Gia Định Province → Nam Kỳ →	partOf
Cochinchina ("Basse-Cochinchine") →	alternativeName
Treaty of Saigon (1874) →	appliesToTerritorialEntity
Governor-General of French Indochina →	appliesToTerritory
Protectorate of Annam ("Colony of Cochinchina") →	borderedBy
Nam Kỳ ("Bắc Kỳ") →	distinctFrom
Saigon ("French Cochinchina") →	formerCapitalOf
Nam Kỳ →	hasAlternativeName
Tonkin ("Bắc Kỳ") →	historicalNameInVietnamese
Treaty of Saigon (1862) →	historicalRegionAffected
August General Uprising →	mainLocation
Cochinchina ("In European usage, sometimes referred to all of Vietnam, but later restricted to the southern region") →	note
Treaty of Saigon (1874) →	relatedTo
piastre of French Indochina →	usedIn