/vee et'nahm", -nam", vyet'-, vee'it-/ , n.
1. Official name, Socialist Republic of Vietnam . a country in SE Asia, comprising the former states of Annam, Tonkin, and Cochin-China: formerly part of French Indochina; divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified. 75,123,880; 126,104 sq. mi. (326,609 sq. km). Cap.: Hanoi. Cf. North Vietnam, South Vietnam .
2. See Vietnam War .
Also, Viet Nam .