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What does the name Vietnam mean?

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"Viet" was a Vietnamese pronounciation of a Chinese word for "far" which described a wondering hunter type people in that region of Asia; these wonderer's migrated southward into current day Vietnam. "Nam" means "south" or southern region. Wondering people living in the south.

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