North Vietnam
Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the area surrounding the Red River Delta of Northern Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term referred to the domain of Đàng Ngoài, under the control of the Trịnh lords, encompassing both the Northern and Thanh–Nghệ regions, north of the Gianh River at the 17.7th parallel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Region
- Description: northern part of Vietnam, to the west of the Gulf of Tonkin
- Also known as: “Bac-Ky”, “Bac-Viet”, “Bak-bo”, “Tongkin”, “Tongking”, “Tonkin”, and “Tonquin”
North Vietnam
- Category: administrative territorial entity
- Location: Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“North Vietnam” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تونكين”
- Azerbaijani: “Bakbo”
- Basque: “Tonkin”
- Belarusian: “Бакбо”
- Belarusian: “Раён Бакбо”
- Breton: “Tonkin”
- Catalan: “Tonquín”
- Chinese: “东京”
- Chinese: “北圻”
- Chinese: “東京”
- Corsican: “Tonchinu”
- Czech: “Tonkin”
- Danish: “Tonkin”
- Dutch: “Tonkin”
- Esperanto: “Tonkino”
- Finnish: “Tonkin”
- French: “Le Tonkin”
- French: “Nord-Viêtnam”
- French: “Tonkin”
- French: “Tonquin”
- French: “Tunquin (xviiie siècle)”
- Galician: “Tonkín”
- German: “Bac Bo”
- German: “Bắc Bộ”
- German: “Tongking”
- German: “Tonkin”
- German: “Tonking”
- German: “Tunkin”
- Greek: “Τονκίνο”
- Hebrew: “טונקין”
- Hindi: “ताङ्किङ्”
- Hindi: “तोंकिन”
- Indonesian: “Tonkin”
- Italian: “Tonchino”
- Italian: “Tunchino”
- Italian: “Tunckino”
- Japanese: “トンキン”
- Japanese: “北部地方”
- Khmer: “តុងកឹង”
- Korean: “통킹”
- Lao: “ຕົງແກງ”
- Lao: “ໂຕນກິນ”
- Latin: “Tonkino”
- Malay: “Tonkin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tonkin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tonkin”
- Norwegian: “Tonkin”
- Persian: “تونکین”
- Polish: “Tonkin”
- Portuguese: “Tonkin”
- Portuguese: “Tonquim”
- Romanian: “Tonkin”
- Russian: “Бакбо”
- Russian: “Протекторат Тонкин”
- Russian: “Северная часть Вьетнама”
- Russian: “Тонкин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bắc Kỳ”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tonkin”
- Slovak: “Tonkin”
- Slovenian: “Tonkin”
- Spanish: “Tongking”
- Spanish: “Tonkin”
- Spanish: “Tonkín”
- Spanish: “Tonquin”
- Spanish: “Tonquín”
- Swedish: “Dong Kinh”
- Swedish: “Tonkin”
- Thai: “Tonkin”
- Thai: “ตังเกี๋ย”
- Turkish: “Tonkin”
- Ukrainian: “Бакбо”
- Venetian: “Tonchin”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Phần”
- Vietnamese: “Miền Bắc”
- Vietnamese: “Tonkin”
- Vietnamese: “Tunchino”
- Yue Chinese: “東京”
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