Answer:
conquered parts of southern Asia.
Explanation:
France had several colonial possessions, in various forms, from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s. At its height, between 1919 and 1939, the second French colonial empire extended over more than 12,898,000 km² of land. Including Francemetropolitana, the total area of land under French sovereignty reached 13,000,000 km² in the 1920s and 1930s, which is 8.7% of the world's land area.
Southeast Asia Napoleon III also established French control over Cochinchina (the southernmost part of present-day Vietnam, including Saigon) in 1867 and 1874, as well as a protectorate over Cambodia in 1863. In addition, France had a sphere of influence during the nineteenth century and the twentieth century in southern China, including a naval base in Kuangchow (Guangzhou) of the Bay.
It was only after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and the founding of the Third Republic (1871-1940) that most of France's colonial possessions developed. From its base in Cochinchina, the French took charge of Tonkin (in present-day North Vietnam) and Annam (in the modern center of Vietnam) on 1884-1885. These, along with Cambodia and Cochinchina, formed French Indochina in 1887 (to which Laos was added in 1893, and Kwang-Chou-Wan in 1900). In 1849 the French concession of Shanghai was established, which lasted until 1946.
