South Vietnam

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noun

a former country in SE Asia that comprised Vietnam S of about 17° N latitude; a separate state 1954–75; now part of reunified Vietnam. Capital: Saigon.

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She illustrates how her family escaped the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s and the challenges they faced living in America.
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Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
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Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.
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He prepared operations south of Samarra and north of Baghdad.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. Senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
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The Potato is planted very sparingly south of Piedmont, and not so commonly there as in Savoy.
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If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.
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Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

British Dictionary definitions for South Vietnam

South Vietnam

noun

a former republic (1955–76) occupying the S of present-day Vietnam on the South China Sea and the Gulf of Thailand

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