Tonkin

, Tongking

1. a former state of N French Indochina (1883--1946), on the Gulf of Tonkin: forms the largest part of N Vietnam

2. Gulf of. an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)

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Tonkin

(1) The Portuguese corrupt pronunciation of “Donkinh, ” one of the names of the capital of medieval Vietnam, the city of Thang Long (present-day Hanoi; literally, “eastern capital”).

(2) The European name for the northern part of Vietnam from the 16th to 19th centuries.

(3) The name of the region of Vietnam situated north of the present-day province of Thanhhoa after the country’s takeover in 1884 by French colonialists. In official French documents the area was referred to as the protectorate of Tonkin. In 1887 it became part of the Indochinese Union. After the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was formed in 1945, the region was renamed Bac Bo (“northern section”).

The name “Tonkin” is now obsolete.

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