Sooth Vietnam

Sooth Vietnam, offeecially the Republic o Vietnam, wis a state which govrened soothren Vietnam till 1975. It received internaitional recogneetion in 1949 as the "State o Vietnam" (1949–55), an later as the "Republic o Vietnam"^[a] (1955–75). Its caipital wis Saigon. The term "Sooth Vietnam" acame common usage in 1954, when the Geneva Conference pairtitioned Vietnam intae communist an non-communist pairts.

Republic of Vietnam[a] Việt-nam Cộng-hòa
1954–1975
Coat o Airms
Motto: "Tổ quốc - Danh dự - Trách nhiệm" (English: "Fatherland – Honor – Duty")
Anthem: "Tiếng Gọi Công Dân" (Scots: "Cry tae the Ceetizens")
Location o Sooth Vietnam in Sootheast Asie
Caipital	Saigon
Common leids	Vietnamese (offeecial)
Releegion	Buddhism Roman Catholicism Confucianism Taoism
Govrenment	Presidential republic
Preses
• 1955–1963	Ngô Đình Diệm
• 1963–1964	Dương Văn Minh Nguyễn Khánh
• 1964–1965	Phan Khắc Sửu
• 1965–1975	Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
• 1975	Trần Văn Hương (actin)
• 1975	Dương Văn Minh (actin)
Prime Meenister
• 1963–1964 (first)	Nguyen Ngoc Tho
• 1975 (last)	Vu Van Mau
Historical era	Cauld War · Vietnam War
• Referendum	23 October 1954
• 1963 coup	November 1963
• Paris Peace Accords	27 Januar 1973
• Faw o Saigon	30 Aprile 1975
Aurie
1955	173,809 km2 (67,108 sq mi)
1974	173,809 km2 (67,108 sq mi)
Population
• 1955	12000000
• 1974	19582000
HDI (1979)	0.783 heich · 53
Currency	đồnga
Precedit bi Succeedit bi State o Vietnam Provisional Revolutionary Govrenment o the Republic o Sooth Vietnam
The day pairt o	Vietnam
Gradually phased in tae replace the piastre.

Sooth Vietnam's origins can be traced tae the French colony o Cochincheenae, which consistit o the soothern third o Vietnam an wis a subdiveesion o French Indocheenae. Efter Warld War II, the Viet Minh, led bi Ho Chi Minh, proclaimed the establishment o a Communist naition in Hanoi. In 1949, non-communist Vietnamese politeecians furmed a rival govrenment in Saigon led bi umwhile emperor Bảo Đại. Bảo Đại wis deponed bi Prime Meenister Ngô Đình Diệm in 1955, who proclaimed himsel preses efter a referendum. Efter Diệm wis deponed in a militar coup in 1963, thare wis a series o short-lived militar governments. General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu led the kintra frae 1967 till 1975. The Vietnam War began in 1959 wi an uprisin bi Viet Cong forces supplied bi North Vietnam. Fichting climaxed during the Tet Offensive o 1968, when thare wur ower 1.5 million Sooth Vietnamese soldiers an 500,000 U.S. sodgers in Sooth Vietnam. Despite a peace treaty concluded in Januar 1973, fichtin continued till the North Vietnamese airmy owerran Saigon on 30 Aprile 1975.

Notes

1. The Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed on October 26, 1955 with Ngô Đình Diệm as its first president.^[1] Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and by some eighty-seven other nations. It had membership in several special committees of the United Nations, and would have been a member of the United Nations itself had it not been for a Soviet veto in 1957.^[2][3]