South Vietnam (Nation) AKA Republic of Vietnam
South Vietnam
1949 AD - 1975 AD
AKA Republic of Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975, the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War.
South Vietnam was bordered by:
- North Vietnam to the north
- Laos to the northwest
- Cambodia to the southwest
- Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.
It first received international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon (renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in 1976), before becoming a republic in 1955.
Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations, though it failed to gain admission into the United Nations as a result of a Soviet veto in 1957.
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