The Gulfs of Tonkin and Thailand both lead to which body of water?
Gulf of Tonkin Gulf of Tonkin The Gulf of Tonkin (, ; also ) is a body of water located off the coast of northern Vietnam and southern China. It is a northern arm of the South China Sea. The Gulf is defined in the west by the northern coastline of Vietnam, in the north by China's Guangxi province, and to the east by China's Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island. The bay's Vietnamese and Chinese names – and , respectively – both mean "Northern Bay". The name "Tonkin", written "" in Hán-Nôm characters and in the Vietnamese alphabet, means "eastern capital", and is
Pacification of Tonkin Huế was forced to recognise a French protectorate over both Annam (French protectorate) and Tonkin. Efforts by the French to entrench their protectorate in Tonkin were complicated by the outbreak of the Sino-French War in August 1884, which tied down large French forces around Hưng Hóa and Lạng Sơn, and later by the Cần Vương uprising in southern Vietnam in July 1885, which required the diversion of French forces from Tonkin to Annam. When the Sino-French War ended in April 1885, there were 35,000 French troops in Tonkin, but the area of French control was restricted to the Red River