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NORTH VIETNAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Holonyms ("North Vietnam" is a part of...):
Annam; Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Viet Nam; Vietnam (a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945)