Tongking, Tonquin, or Tonkin (9,000), a fertile northern province of Annam (q.v.), ceded to France in 1884; is richly productive of rice, cotton, sugar, spices, &c., but has an unhealthy climate.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tongaland * Tongres