Fukcock Island

From 1760 to 1780, the French Catholic missionary Pinault de Bihain lived on the island, who at one time hid Prince Nguyen Anya, who had escaped the Taishon uprising. From 1782 to 1786, Phu Quoc was the residence of this prince, who returned to the mainland after the defeat of the Taishons and in 1802 became Emperor Zia Long.

The missionary was always preparing the ground for the invasion of his countrymen. In 1869, French troops occupied Phu Quoc and handed it over to the French governor of Cochinchinchin (South Vietnam). The French established rubber and coconut plantations on the island. However, the population of the island did not exceed 1,000.

In 1949, France transferred Phu Quoc to the South Vietnamese government.

During the Vietnam War, the Americans set up a 400-hectare prison on the island for 40,000 Vietnamese prisoners of war.

After the withdrawal of the Americans and literally the day after the fall of the South Vietnamese regime on May 1, 1975, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge of the Pol Pot regime captured Phu Quoc, but were soon defeated by units of the Vietnamese People's Army. In Cambodian, Phu Quoc is called Koh Tral.