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South Viet Nam

South Viet Nam is the alternative form of South Vietnam.

Meaning of South Vietnam

Proper noun

South Vietnam

  1. (historical) A former state in Southeast Asia that governed Vietnam south of the 17th parallel from 1955 to 1975. Official name: Republic of Vietnam.
    • China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers, that if South Vietnam went, it would not only give them an improved geographic position for the guerrilla assault on Malaya but would also give the impression that the wave of the future in Southeast Asia was China and the Communists. So I...1971, Lyndon Johnson, quoting John F. Kennedy, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61

Questions about South Viet Nam

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

Words near South Viet Nam in the dictionary

  1. South Tyneside
  2. South Tyrol
  3. South Uist
  4. South Utsire
  5. South Van
  6. South Viet Nam
  7. South Viet-Nam
  8. South Vietnam
  9. South Vietnamese
  10. South Villazar
  11. South Wairarapa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: South Viet Nam (page history and authors); South 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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