Domain of the Crown

Domain of the Crown Hoàng triều Cương thổ (Vietnamese) Domaine de la Couronne (French) 皇朝疆土
Collection of autonomous territories of the State of Vietnam (a part of French Indochina until 1954)
1950–1955
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The Domain of the Crown, coloured yellow, within French Indochina before 1954 (note the modern provincial names and boundaries).
Capital	Đà Lạt
Area transferred
• 1954	Crown domains in Bắc phần ceded to North Vietnam
Government
• Type	Autonomous administrative divisions
Chief of State
• 1950–1955	Bảo Đại
Historical era	Cold War
• Autonomy granted	15 April 1950
• Battle of Điện Biên Phủ	13 March – 7 May 1954
• Vietnamese division	21 July 1954[a]
• Disestablished	11 March 1955
Subdivisions
• Type	Autonomous territories, provinces, districts, communes
Preceded by Succeeded by Montagnard country of South Indochina Mường Autonomous Territory Tai Autonomous Territory Hmong Kingdoms Nùng Autonomous Territory Thổ Autonomous Territory Hòa Bình Province Thái-Mèo Autonomous Region Việt Bắc Autonomous Region Hải Ninh Province Darlac Đồng Nai Thượng Kontum Lâm Viên Pleiku
Today part of	Vietnam

The Domain of the Crown (Vietnamese: Hoàng triều Cương thổ; Chữ Hán: 皇朝疆土; French: Domaine de la Couronne; Modern Vietnamese: Đất của vua) was originally the Nguyễn dynasty's geopolitical concept for its protectorates and principalities where the ethnic Kinh did not make up the majority, later it became a type of administrative unit of the State of Vietnam.^[1] It was officially established on 15 April 1950.^[1] In the areas of the Domain of the Crown, the Chief of State Bảo Đại was still officially (and legally) titled as the "Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty".^[2]

The Domain of the Crown was established to preserve French interests in French Indochina and to limit Vietnamese immigration into predominantly minority areas, halting Vietnamese influence in these regions while preserving the influences of both French colonists and indigenous rulers.

After the 1954 Geneva Conference the Domain of the Crown lost considerable amounts of territory, as the entirety of Bắc phần was ceded to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, reducing it only to Tây Nguyên. On 11 March 1955 Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm dissolved the Domain of the Crown reducing both the power of the Chief of State Bảo Đại and the French directly annexing these areas into the State of Vietnam as the crown regions still in South Vietnam would later become Cao nguyên Trung phần in the Republic of Vietnam.^[1][3]

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