Postage stamps and postal history of Annam and Tongking
A concise postal history of French Annam protectorate and Tongking protectorate, former territories of colonial French Indochina, that were located in present-day Vietnam.
Stamp issues
- Dates
- 1888 - 1892
- Currency
- 100 centimes = 1 franc
- Refer
- Indo-China Territories
Geography
Tongking, also spelt Tonkin, is the northern part of Vietnam. Annam comprises most of central Vietnam.
- Capital
- Hanoi
- Frontiers
- Tongking is bounded by China (north); Gulf of Tongking (east); Annam (south); Laos (west). Annam is bounded by Tongking (north); Cochinchina (south); South China Sea (east); Cambodia and Laos (west).
- Language
- Vietnamese and French.
- Religion
- Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism
History
- 1885
- Annam & Tongking became French protectorates following war with China.
- 1887
- Included in Indochina with Cambodia and Cochinchina.
- 1888
- (21 January) One issue was released with 9 stamps. These stamps were French Colonial Commerce types overprinted A&T plus a surcharge of either 1 or 5 centimes.
- 1892
- The issue was replaced by stamps of Indochina.
- 1893
- Laos was added to the union.
- 1949
- (14 June) Annam & Tongking became part of the new colony of Vietnam.
Sources
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd: various catalogues
- Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. ISBN 0-356-10862-7
- Encyclopaedia of Postal History
