What the records say
- When
- 1975
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- South Vietnam
- Coordinates
- 10.76° N, 106.66° E
- Process
- conquest
- Type
- Conquest (armed force)
- Pop
- 18300000
- Area km2
- 174481
- Gaining
- Vietnam
- Losing
- Republic of Vietnam
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
South Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia (1955–1975)
The Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as South Vietnam, was a country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1955 to 1975. It first garnered recognition in 1949 as the associated State of Vietnam within the French Union, with its capital at Saigon. Since 1950, it was a member of the Western Bloc during the Cold War.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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