vietnam ethnic cham fishermen in chau doc cochinchina in 1918 cochinchina is a region encompassing the southern third of vietnam including saigon or ho chi minh city it was a french colony from 1862 to 1948 the later state of south vietnam was created in 1954 by combining cochinchina with southern annam the cham people are remnants of the kingdom of champa 7th to 15th centuries they are nowadays concentrated between kampong cham province in cambodia and central vietnams phan rang and southeastern vietnams phan thiet ho chi minh city and an giang areas 2b00xtt.jpg from futsal vietnam（url766 vn） brm View Photo