Indochina

Indochina, Indo-chine, or French Indochina was a consolidation of French colonies in southeast Asia. These were previously Annam & Tonkin, Cambodia, Cochin China, Kwangcheowan and Laos.
 * French colonies general issues were surcharged, inscribed INDO-CHINE in 1889.
 * The standard type Groupe issues followed beginning in 1892.
 * In 1927, pictorials were released inscribed INDOCHINE (no hyphen).
 * 1941 saw the first release under France's Vichy government. The RF emblem was removed from stamps, sometimes replaced by an EF emblem. Several issues were inscribed INDOCHINE FRANCAISE.
 * After the fall of the Vichy government, Japanese forces took over the region.
 * Meanwhile, the Viet Minh rebel group overprinted Indochina stamps beginning in 1945 for use in areas they controlled.
 * Kwangcheowan was returned to China in 1945.
 * No colonial stamp would be issued until 1946.
 * Indochina's last issue was in 1949
 * Indochina's issues were followed by separate issues for Cambodia, Laos and a newly created Vietnam in 1951.

 File:Indochina type group.jpg|25c type Groupe. File:Indochina 6 on 15c.jpg|6 CENTS surcharge from the 1919 issue. File:Indochina 21c pict.jpg|21c value from the 1931 pictorial issue. File:Indochina Vichy air.jpg|15c airmail produced by the Vichy government but never released in the colony (c.1943). File:Indochina postage due.jpg|1c postage due of 1944. 

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