Anam

or on, a name given by the Chinese in the 3d century A. Dy to an empire occupying the H. side of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, along the China Sea. It comprised Tonkin in the N.; Cochin-China in the S.; and ‘the territory of the Laos tribes S. W. of Tonkin; with an aggregate area of 196,500 square miles, and a population of 15,000,000. Since the French occupation in 1884 Anam while theoretically still a native monarchy, administratively forms the central division of French Indo-China with an area of 52,100 square miles. The King rules with a council of six members under the supervision of a French resident at Hué. Pop. 6,124,000.