An Annamite bamboo boat, Vietnam, wood engraving, published in 1899 - stock illustration

An Annamite bamboo boat. Annam, or Trung Kỳ, was a French protectorate and colony encompassing the territory of the Empire of Đại Nam in 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 a part of French Indochina in 1887, along with two other Vietnamese regions, Cochinchina (Vietnamese: Nam Kỳ) in the South and Tonkin (Bắc Kỳ) in the North. Wood engraving after a photograph, published in 1899.