COCHIN-CHINA

COCHIN-CHINA, is a region encompassing the southern third of Vietnam, the region E. of the Mekong, or Annam proper, called HIGH COCHIN-CHINA (capital Hué), and LOW COCHIN-CHINA, a State S. of Indo-China, and S. of Cambodia and Annam; with an unhealthy climate; rice the chief crop; grows also teak, cotton, &c.; capital Saigon. It was a French colony from 1862 to 1954. The state of South Vietnam was created in 1954 by combining Cochinchina with southern Annam.