State of Vietnam
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| État du Viêt-Nam Quốc gia Việt Nam |
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Associated state of the French Union; constituent territory of French Indochina until 1954 |
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Anthem "Thanh niên Hành Khúc" (English: "The March of Youths") |
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| Capital | Saigon | |||||||||||
| Languages | Vietnamese, French | |||||||||||
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Roman Catholicism Buddhism Confucianism Taoism Paganism |
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| Government | Provisional government | |||||||||||
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| • | 1949–1955 | Bảo Đại | ||||||||||
| Prime minister | ||||||||||||
| • | 1954–1955 | Ngô Đình Diệm | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | |||||||||||
| • | Proclamation | July 2, 1949 | ||||||||||
| • | Internationally recognized | 1950 | ||||||||||
| • | 1955 referendum | October 26, 1955 | ||||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||||
| • | 1955 | 173,809 km² (67,108 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||||
| • | 1955 est. | 12,000,000 | ||||||||||
| Density | 69 /km² (178.8 /sq mi) | |||||||||||
| Currency | piastre | |||||||||||
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The State of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Quốc gia Việt Nam; French: État du Viêt-Nam) was a state that claimed authority over all of Vietnam during the First Indochina War although part of its territory was actually controlled by the communist Viet Minh. The state was created in 1949 and was internationally recognized in 1950. Former emperor Bảo Đại was chief of state (Quốc Trưởng). After the 1954 Geneva Agreements, the State of Vietnam had to abandon the Northern part of the country to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed prime minister that same year, and after ousting Bảo Đại in 1955, became president of the Republic of Vietnam.
Since the August Revolution, Viet Minh had seized all of the territories of Vietnam. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was established by Viet Minh on September 2, 1945 and the DRV had controlled all of territories of Vietnam.
By February 1947, following the pacification of Tonkin (North Vietnam), the Tonkinese capital, Hanoi, and the main traffic axis returned under French control. The Việt Minh partisans were forced to retreat into the jungle and prepared to pursue the war using guerrilla warfare.
In order to reduce Việt Minh leader Hồ Chí Minh's influence over the Vietnamese population, the French authorities in Indochina supported the return to power of the emperor (last ruler of the Nguyễn Dynasty), Bảo Đại by establishing puppet states, including the State of Vietnam. Bao Dai had voluntarily abdicated on August 25, 1945, after the fall of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.
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