Cochin-China, the region E. of the Mekong, or Annam proper, called High Cochin-China (capital Hué), and Low Cochin-China, a State S. of Indo-China, and S. of Cambodia and Annam; belonging to France, with an unhealthy climate; rice the chief crop; grows also teak, cotton, &c.; capital Saigon.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,034,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cochin * Cochlæus, Johann