North Vietnam (a former Communist country in Southeast Asia that governed northern Vietnam from 1945 to 1975) · northern Vietnam (a geographic region in northern Vietnam)
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (official name of North Vietnam: a former country in Southeast Asia existing from 1945 to 1976, when it merged with South Vietnam to become the single state of Vietnam)
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 越南民主共和, composed of 越南 (“Vietnam”), 民主 (“democratic”) and 共和 (“republic”).