southern Vietnam
Southeast Asian territory
Southern Vietnam refers to the lower portion of Vietnam, historically and politically significant as the territory of South Vietnam (1955–1975), a separate state during the Vietnam War.
The region includes the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
Today it designates the geographic southern half of unified Vietnam, known for tropical climate and rice production.
- boat peopleRefugees traveling by sea
- Mekong DeltaVietnamese river's coastal plain
- reunificationRestoring divided unity
- Ho Chi Minh TrailWartime supply route through jungle
- floating marketsTrade conducted from boats
agriculture · tropical monsoon · mangroves · rice paddies · water buffalo · canals · rubber production · Viet Cong · French Indochina · fish sauce · street vendors · Buddhist temples · coffee plantations · coconut palms · folk music · Tet Offensive · colonial legacy · tourism sector
- Indochina mapsMekong Delta, colonial maps
- French IndochinaIndochina, Saigon, Tonkin, Hanoi, Tonkinese
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