A French protectorate and colony encompassing the territory of Central Vietnam. Before the protectorate's establishment, the name Annam was used in the West to refer to Vietnam as a whole; Vietnamese people were referred to as Annamites. The protectorate of Annam became part of French Indochina in 1887, along with two other Vietnamese regions, Tonkin in the North and Cochinchina in the South. In 1948, the protectorate was merged in the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, which was replaced the next year by the newly established State of Vietnam.
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