Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1887 – 1954

French Indochina

A state of 1887 – 1954 — 67 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Kingdom of Kampuchea. It was followed by North Vietnam. The atlas records 56 things within it — wars and battles 11 · unrest and atrocity 3 · people 42. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood
67 years
1887 – 1954
Rulers
2
the Governor-General
Most ground
792,800 km²
in 1908
Within it
56
recorded rows
Symbols
3
on record, with years
Map: French Indochina in 1908, its borders in gold among its neighbours
French Indochina in 1908, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 792,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Kingdom of Kampuchea: 1945 – 1945North Vietnam: 1945 – 1976French Indochina: 1887 – 1954

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

After it

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

Jean Antoine Ernest Constans · 1887 – 1888 · no death date to read the end againstHenri Hoppenot · 1955 – 1956 · no death date to read the end against190019201940
ending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Jean Antoine Ernest Constans1887 – 18881 yearending not on record
Henri Hoppenot1955 – 19561 yearending not on record

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1887 – 1956. Median reign 1 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

190019201940

445,000 km² in 1887, 789,800 km² in 1954; at its largest 792,800 km² in 1927. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

  • Emblem of the Gouvernement général de l'Indochine
    coat of arms, undatedEmblem of the Gouvernement général de l'Indochine · Public domain
  • Flag of France
    flag, undatedFlag of France · Public domain
  • Flag of Colonial Annam
    flag, undatedFlag of Colonial Annam · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 1899: 6 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 6 other18001900 – 1999: 50 recorded — 11 wars and battles, 3 risings, regime changes and massacres, 36 other1900

1800 – 18996 rows

1900 – 199950 rows · 11 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

and 42 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

  • How long it stood67 years

    stood longer than 39% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held792,800 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 81% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • Wars recorded per century2.0

    had more wars on record per century than 97% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.

  • How long a reign lasted, at the median1 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 2% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record2

    has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 6 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

French Cochinchina · Linked · 1862 – 1949French CochinchinaFrench Protectorate of Cambodia · Linked · 1863 – 1953French Protectorate of CambodiaFrench Annam · Linked · 1884 – 1949French AnnamKingdom of Luang Phrabang · Coincidence · 1707 – 1893Kingdom of Luang PhrabangNguyễn dynasty · Coincidence · 1802 – 1945Nguyễn dynastyPhan Bội Châu · Coincidence · 1867 – 1940Phan Bội ChâuFrench Indochina · 1887 – 1954French IndochinaNorth Vietnam · Linked · 1945 – 1976North Vietnam170017501800185019001950
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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q185682 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.