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North Viet Nam

North Viet Nam is the alternative form of North Vietnam.

Meaning of North Vietnam

Proper noun

North Vietnam

  1. (historical) A former communist state in Southeast Asia that governed Vietnam north of the 17th parallel from 1954 to 1976. The government was first proclaimed in 1945. Official name: Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
    • When we visited Laos, I had lunch with Souvanna Phouma. During the course of the lunch, he said we ought to bomb Red China, that it was the effective way to stop their aid to North Vietnam.1976, Hubert H. Humphrey, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 333

Questions about North Viet Nam

What is North Viet Nam the alternative form of?
North Viet Nam is the alternative form of North Vietnam.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: North Viet Nam (page history and authors); North Vietnam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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