Indochina (Unitatis)

Indochina (French: Indochine, Vietnamese: Đông Dương), officially the Indochinese Federation (French: Fédération indochinoise) since 1947, is a federal republic in Southeast Asia.

The region was first colonized by France in 1887. The colony was under Japanese occupation during World War II after the Fall of France, but France took back the colony after the war. The Indochina War was fought in Indochina between 1946 and 1950, when a communist revolutionary group known as the Viet Minh declared independence from the French colony. France was victorious with support from the United States and China. French Indochina gained independence as a federal republic in 1952.