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Cochin China

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noun

  1. a former French colony of Indochina (1862–1948): now the part of Vietnam that lies south of Phan Thiet

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Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking.

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They had dealt directly with Viet Nam without Cochin China representation, causing Dr. Thinh's Government to lose face.

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She had her bases in Indo-China as planned�a long strip of Annamese coast on the China Sea, a hunk of Cochin China across the Gulf of Siam from Malaya and, diagonally, from Singapore.

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The Viet Nam nation is a recent French consolidation of three ancient provinces: Tonkin, Annam and Cochin China.

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The antiquity of the orange and mandarin is less, both species being from China and Cochin China.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various