French Formosa

State of Formosa (French: État de Formose, Chinese: 福爾摩沙州), also known as French Formosa (French: Formose française, Chinese: 法語福爾摩沙) is an smallest colonies/states of the French Colonial Empire established in the northern tip of the island known to Europeans at the time as Formosa (now Taiwan) from 1676 to 1894.