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
Where it sits in time
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
- Kingdom of Kampuchea · replaces · 1945
After it
- North Vietnam · followed by · 1945 – 1976
Rulers
Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jean Antoine Ernest Constans | 1887 – 1888 | 1 year | ending not on record | |
| Henri Hoppenot | 1955 – 1956 | 1 year | ending 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.
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.

coat of arms, undatedEmblem of the Gouvernement général de l'Indochine · Public domain 
flag, undatedFlag of France · Public domain 
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 – 18996 rows
- Ho Chi Minh · politician · 1890 – 1969
- Thích Quảng Đức · religious leader · 1897 – 1963
- Tôn Đức Thắng · ruler · 1888 – 1980
- Ngô Đình Thục · religious leader · 1897 – 1984
- Phạm Quỳnh · politician · 1892 – 1945
- Nguyễn Văn Tâm · politician · 1893 – 1990
1900 – 199950 rows · 11 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres
- Pol Pot · ruler · 1925 – 1998
- Võ Nguyên Giáp · politician · 1911 – 2013
- First Indochina War · war · 1946 – 1954
- Hun Sen · politician · 1952 – present
- Lê Đức Thọ · politician · 1911 – 1990
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu · battle · 1954
- Lon Nol · ruler · 1913 – 1985
- Lê Duẩn · politician · 1907 – 1986
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.
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
- On the timeline, 1877 – 1964, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1908, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
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.