title: Tonquin
text: # Tonquin
  
  Tonquin may refer to:
  
  ## Ships
  
  * Tonquin (1807), an American merchant vessel destroyed on Vancouver Island in 1811
  * Tonquin (1845), a later American commercial vessel that sank in 1849 near San Francisco, CA
  * SS City of Paris (1865), a French steamship briefly named Tonquin that sank in 1885
  
  ## Locations
  
  * Tonquin Valley, a valley located in Alberta
  * Tonquin Pass, a mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies
  * Tonquin, Oregon, an unincorporated locale of Oregon
  
  ## Vietnam
  
  * Tonkin, the northern region of Vietnam
  * Tonquin War, an alternative name for the Sino-French War
  
  ## Plants
  
  * Tonquin bean, a flowering pea tree native to Central and South America
  