French Indochina was a grouping of only one French colonial territory.
In the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin the government of the Nguyn dynasty shared its power with the French administration de jure but were de facto directly ruled by the French colonial apparatus
 By 1940, only about 34,000 French civilians lived in French Indochina, along with a smaller number of French military personnel and government workers (6,000)

