Vietnam
Việt Nam Several towns have English or French names joining the two syllables:
- Hà Nội : Hanoi, French Hanoï
- Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh : Ho Chi Minh City
- Sài Gòn : Saigon (still used for district), French Saïgon
- Chợ Lớn : Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City
- Hải Phòng : Haiphong, French Haïphong
- Đà Lạt : Dalat
- Đà Nẵng : Danang, French Tourane (obsolete)
- Dãy Trường Sơn : Annamite Range
- Ngũ Hành Sơn : Marble Mountains (Vietnamese name more accurately is "Five elements mountains")
- Mê Kông : Mekong River
- Vịnh Bắc Bộ : Gulf of Tonkin
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Famous quotes containing the word vietnam:
“I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.”
—Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)
“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
—Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)
“I told them I’m not going to let Vietnam go the way of China. I told them to go back and tell those generals in Saigon that Lyndon Johnson intends to stand by our word, but by God, I want something for my money. I want ‘em to get off their butts and get out in those jungles and whip hell out of some Communists. And then I want ‘em to leave me alone, because I’ve got some bigger things to do right here at home.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)