Vietnam

Vietnam

See also: vietnam, Víetnam, Viëtnam, Viet Nam, Viêt Nam, and Việt Nam

National flag of Vietnam

English

Alternative forms

• Viet-Nam, Viet Nam

Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Việt Nam. Sino-Vietnamese word from 越南, composed of 越 (“Yue”) and 南 (“south”). 越 (pronounced ɢʷaːd in Old Chinese)contains a symbol for "battleaxe", and the word also has meanings like to transgress, to rob thus "southern barbarians". Extended senses come from the Vietnam War.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnɑːm/, /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnæm/, /(ˈ)viːətˈnɑːm/, /(ˈ)viːətˈnæm/
  • (Cockney) IPA^(key): /ˌvjɛʔˈnɑːm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnɑm/, /(ˈ)vjɛtˈnæm/, /ˌvi.ətˈnɑm/, /ˌvi.ətˈnæm/

• Audio (US)

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• (US, rare, perhaps modeled on piece etc, or the South Vietnamese pronunciation) IPA^(key): /(ˈ)vitˈnɑm/, /(ˈ)vitˈnæm/
• Rhymes: -ɑːm, -æm

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

   Synonyms: (official name) Socialist Republic of Vietnam, (informal) Nam

2. (chiefly US, colloquial) The Vietnam War.

   Synonym: (informal) Nam

Derived terms

• Vietnam syndrome
• Vietnam War
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamization
• Vietnamize

Translations

country in Southeast Asia

Abkhaz: Виетнам (Vjetʼnam) Afrikaans: Viëtnam Albanian: Vietnam m Amharic: ቬት ናም (vet nam) Arabic: فِيتْنَام‎ f (fiyitnām) Hijazi Arabic: ڤِيِتنام‎ f (viyitnām), فِيِتنام‎ f (fiyitnām) Armenian: Վիետնամ (hy) (Vietnam) Assamese: ভিয়েটনাম (bhietonam) Asturian: Vietnam (ast) Azerbaijani: Vyetnam (az) Bashkir: Вьетнам (V’yetnam) Belarusian: В'етна́м m (Vʺjetnám) Bengali: ভিয়েতনাম (bn) (bhiyetônam) Breton: Viêt Nam, Viêtnam, Vietnam Bulgarian: Виетна́м (bg) m (Vietnám) Burmese: ဗီယက်နမ် (my) (biyaknam) Catalan: Vietnam (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 越南 (yue) (jyut6 naam4) Hakka: 越南 (Ye̍t-nàm) Mandarin: 越南 (zh) (Yuènán) Min Dong: 越南 (Uŏk-nàng) Min Nan: 越南 (O̍at-lâm) Wu: 越南 (hhyq noe) Czech: Vietnam (cs) m Danish: Vietnam (da) Dhivehi: ވިއެޓުނާމު‎ (dv) (vieṭunāmu) Dutch: Vietnam (nl) n Esperanto: Vjetnamio (eo), Vjet-Namo, Vjetnamo Estonian: Vietnam (et) Faroese: Vjetnam n Finnish: Vietnam (fi) French: Viêt Nam (fr) m, Vietnam (fr) m Galician: Vietnam (gl) Georgian: ვიეტნამი (vieṭnami) German: Vietnam (de) n Greek: Βιετνάμ (el) n (Vietnám) Gujarati: વિએટનામ (vieṭanām) Hani: Yiqnaq Hausa: Biyetinam Hawaiian: Wiekanama Hebrew: וייטנאם / וְיֶטְנָאם‎ f (vyetnam) Hindi: वियतनाम (hi) m (viyatnām) Hungarian: Vietnam (hu) Icelandic: Víetnam (is) Indonesian: Vietnam (id) Interlingua: Vietnam Irish: Vítneam m Italian: Vietnam (it) Japanese: ベトナム (ja) (Betonamu), 越南 (ja) (えつなん, Etsunan, ベトナム, Betonamu) Jarai: čar Wiêt Nam Kamba: Vietnam Kannada: ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್ (kn) (viyeṭnām) Kazakh: Вьетнам (Vetnam) Khmer: វៀតណាម (km) (viət naam) Korean: 베트남 (ko) (Beteunam), 윁남 (ko) (Wennam) (North Korea), 월남(越南) (ko) (Wollam) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Viyetnam (ku) Kyrgyz: Вьетнам (Vʹyetnam) Lao: ຫວຽດນາມ (lo) (wīat nām), ວຽດນາມ (wīat nām) Latgalian: please add this translation if you can Latvian: Vjetnama (lv) f Lithuanian: Vietnamas (lt) m Lü: ᦶᦂᧁ (k̇aew) Macedonian: Виетнам (mk) m (Vietnam) Malay: Vietnam Malayalam: വിയറ്റ്നാം (viyaṟṟnāṃ) Maltese: il-Vjetnam Maori: Whitināma Maranao: Bit Nam Marathi: व्हियेतनाम (vhiyetnām) Mingrelian: ვიეტნამი (vieṭnami) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Вьетнам (Vʹjetnam) Mongolian: ᠸᠢᠶ᠋ᠧᠲ᠋ᠨ᠋ᠠᠮ (wiyētnam) Muong: Viêt Nam Navajo: Biʼednam Nepali: भियतनाम (bhiyatanām) Norman: Vietnam m Norwegian: Bokmål: Vietnam (no) Nynorsk: Vietnam (nn) Occitan: Vietnam Okinawan: ベトナム (Betonamu), 越南 (いつなん, Itsunan), 安南 (あんなん, Annan) Oriya: ଭିଏତନାମ (bhietônamô) Ossetian: Вьетнам (Vʹetnam) Pashto: ويتنام‎ m (witnãm) Persian: ویتنام‎ (fa) (viyatnâm) Polish: Wietnam (pl) m inan Portuguese: Vietname (pt) m (Portugal), Vietnã (pt) m (Brazil) Punjabi: ਵੀਅਤਨਾਮ (pa) (vīatanām) Romanian: Vietnam (ro) n Russian: Вьетна́м (ru) m (Vʹjetnám) Santali: ᱵᱷᱤᱭᱮᱴᱱᱟᱢ (bhiyeṭnam) Scots: Vietnam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ви̏јетнам m Roman: Vȉjetnam (sh) m Sichuan Yi: ꒀꆆ (yop nap) Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can Sindhi: ويٽنام‎ Sinhalese: වියට්‍නාමය (wiyaṭnāmaya) Slovak: Vietnam m Slovene: Vietnam (sl) m Spanish: Vietnam (es) m Swahili: Vietinamu (sw), Uvieti Swedish: Vietnam (sv) Tagalog: Byetnam, Biyetnam (tl) Tai Dam: ꪫꪸ꫁ꪒꪙꪱꪣ Tajik: Вйетнам (Vyetnam) Tamil: வியட்நாம் (viyaṭnām) Tatar: Вьетнам (W’yetnam) Tausug: Bitnam Telugu: వియత్నాం (te) (viyatnāṁ) Thai: เวียดนาม (th) (wîiat-naam), ญวน (th) (yuuan) Tibetan: ཝི་ཏི་ནམ (wi ti nam) Turkish: Vietnam (tr) Turkmen: Wýetnam Ukrainian: В'єтна́м (uk) m (Vʺjetnám) Urdu: ویت‌نام‎ m (vīyatnām) Uyghur: ۋيېتنام‎ (wyëtnam) Uzbek: Vyetnam (uz) Vietnamese: Việt Nam (vi) (越南 (vi)) Welsh: Fietnam West Frisian: Fjetnam Western Panjabi: ویتنام‎, ویت نام‎ Yiddish: וויעטנאַם‎ n (vyetnam) Yoruba: Fẹtinami Zhuang: Yeznanz, (please verify) Yiednamz

Noun

Vietnam (plural Vietnams)

1. A long and protracted war or conflict in which the dominating foreign occupier is unable to secure a victory.

   another Vietnam

   the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979–89 occupation of Afghanistan)

   France's Vietnam (the Algerian War or First Indochina War)

2. (US, slang) A place that is very dangerous, especially if afflicted by violence.
   • 1992, “187um (Deep Cover Remix)”, in Deep Cover, performed by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg:

     Welcome back to Vietnam, California.

   • 1992, “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat”, in The Chronic, Death Row Records, performed by Dr. Dre:

     Vietnam, California, back in and on a mission.

3. (US, slang, by extension) A situation in which one cannot win.
   • 1989, Michael Goodwin and Naomi Wise, On the Edge: The Life and Times of Francis Coppola, p. 195:

     Everyone was miserable, including Coppola. "It was my Vietnam," he moaned a few months later.

   • 2011, “Judy is your Viet Nam”, performed by They Might Be Giants:

     Judy is the great deceiver / Judy is your Viet Nam

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• Srebrenica, Chernobyl

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Catalan

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vi.ənˈnam/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi.ənˈnam/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi.enˈnam/

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Asia)

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Central Nahuatl

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam (a country in Asia)

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Czech

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪɛtnam]

Proper noun

Vietnam m inan

1. Vietnam

Declension

Declension of Vietnam

	singulare tantum
nominative	Vietnam
genitive	Vietnamu
dative	Vietnamu
accusative	Vietnam
vocative	Vietname
locative	Vietnamu
instrumental	Vietnamem

Related terms

• vietnamský
• vietnamština
• Vietnamec
• Vietnamka

Further reading

• Vietnam in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Vietnam in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

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Dutch

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɛtˈnɑm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Viet‧nam
• Rhymes: -ɑm

Proper noun

Vietnam n

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• Vietnamees

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Finnish

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋie̯tnɑm/, [ˈʋie̞̯t̪nɑm]
• Rhymes: -ietnɑm
• Syllabification^(key): Viet‧nam

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

   Vietnamin sosialistinen tasavalta ― Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Declension

Inflection of Vietnam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Vietnam	—
genitive		Vietnamin	—
partitive		Vietnamia	—
illative		Vietnamiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Vietnam	—
accusative	nom.	Vietnam	—
	gen.	Vietnamin
genitive		Vietnamin	—
partitive		Vietnamia	—
inessive		Vietnamissa	—
elative		Vietnamista	—
illative		Vietnamiin	—
adessive		Vietnamilla	—
ablative		Vietnamilta	—
allative		Vietnamille	—
essive		Vietnamina	—
translative		Vietnamiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Vietnamitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Vietnam (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Vietnamini	Vietnamimme
2nd person	Vietnamisi	Vietnaminne
3rd person	Vietnaminsa

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French

Alternative forms

• Viêt Nam
• Viet Nam (rare or obsolete)

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjɛt.nam/

• Audio (France)

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• Audio

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Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)

Derived terms

• vietnamien

See also

• (countries of Asia) pays d'Asie; Afghanistan, Arabie saoudite, Arménie, Azerbaïdjan, Bahreïn, Bangladesh, Bhoutan, Birmanie, Brunei, Cambodge, Chine, Chypre, Corée du Nord, Corée du Sud, Émirats arabes unis, Géorgie, Inde, Indonésie, Iran, Irak, Israël, Japon, Jordanie, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Koweït, Laos, Liban, Malaisie, Maldives, Mongolie, Népal, Oman, Ouzbékistan, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russie, Singapour, Sri Lanka, Syrie, Tadjikistan, Thaïlande, Timor oriental, Turquie, Turkménistan, Vietnam, Yémen ^{(Category: fr:Countries in Asia)}

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Galician

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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German

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi̯ɛtˈnam/, /-ˈnaːm/, [vjɛt-], [vi.ɛt-], [ʋ-]
• IPA^(key): /virtˈnam/, [viɐ̯tˈnam] (colloquial variant; compare Serviette)

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -am, -aːm

Proper noun

Vietnam n (proper noun, genitive Vietnams or (optionally with an article) Vietnam, plural Vietnam)

1. Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)
   • 2012, Otto Nigsch, Regierung und Gouvernance: Zur Geschichte der bestehenden Ordnung, page 102:

     Dieser zweite Teil der Genfer Erklärung sah auch vor, im Juli 1956 Wahlen zur Vereinigung der beiden Vietnam durchzuführen, doch wurde dieser Teil der Verträge nicht mehr unterschrieben.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 2014, Heino Caesar, Commander: Ein Bericht. Buch 3, page 180:

     Es war ein blau-gelb-grüner runder Fleck im dunklen Meer unter ihnen auf 17° Nordbreite, der noch existierenden Demarkationslinie zwischen den beiden Vietnam.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Usage notes

• The plural Vietnam refers to North Vietnam (German: Nordvietnam) and South Vietnam (German: Südvietnam).

Declension

Declension of Vietnam [neuter, toponym]

	singular		plural
	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	das	Vietnam	die	Vietnam
genitive	des	Vietnams, Vietnam1	der	Vietnam
dative	dem	Vietnam	den	Vietnam
accusative	das	Vietnam	die	Vietnam

¹Optionally with an article.

Derived terms

• Nordvietnam n
• Südvietnam n
• vietnamesisch
• Vietnamese m

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvijɛtnaːm]
• Hyphenation: Vi‧et‧nam

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Superseded spelling of Vietnám.[1]

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Vietnam	Vietnamok
accusative	Vietnamot	Vietnamokat
dative	Vietnamnak	Vietnamoknak
instrumental	Vietnammal	Vietnamokkal
causal-final	Vietnamért	Vietnamokért
translative	Vietnammá	Vietnamokká
terminative	Vietnamig	Vietnamokig
essive-formal	Vietnamként	Vietnamokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Vietnamban	Vietnamokban
superessive	Vietnamon	Vietnamokon
adessive	Vietnamnál	Vietnamoknál
illative	Vietnamba	Vietnamokba
sublative	Vietnamra	Vietnamokra
allative	Vietnamhoz	Vietnamokhoz
elative	Vietnamból	Vietnamokból
delative	Vietnamról	Vietnamokról
ablative	Vietnamtól	Vietnamoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Vietnamé	Vietnamoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Vietnaméi	Vietnamokéi

Possessive forms of Vietnam
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Vietnamom	Vietnamjaim
2nd person sing.	Vietnamod	Vietnamjaid
3rd person sing.	Vietnamja	Vietnamjai
1st person plural	Vietnamunk	Vietnamjaink
2nd person plural	Vietnamotok	Vietnamjaitok
3rd person plural	Vietnamjuk	Vietnamjaik

Derived terms

• vietnami

References

1.  A magyar helyesírás szabályai, 12. kiadás (’The Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2015. →ISBN

Further reading

• e-nyelv: Mostantól: Vietnám!
• Magyar Nyelvőr: Megjelent A magyar helyesírás szabályai 12. kiadása

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvjɛt.nam/, (traditional) /vjetˈnam/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛtnam, (traditional) -am
• Hyphenation: Vièt‧nam, (traditional) Viet‧nàm

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Derived terms

• vietnamita

References

1. Vietnam in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

• mentiva

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnameser
• vietnamesisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamesar
• vietnamesisk

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Scots

Etymology

From English Vietnam, from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

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Slovak

Etymology

Ultimately from Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvi̯etnam]

Proper noun

Vietnam m (genitive singular Vietnamu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Vietnam (a country in Asia)

Declension

Declension of Vietnam

	singulare tantum
nominative	Vietnam
genitive	Vietnamu
dative	Vietnamu
accusative	Vietnam
locative	Vietname
instrumental	Vietnamom

Derived terms

• Vietnamec m
• Vietnamka f
• vietnamský (adjective)
• vietnamsky (adverb)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bjedˈnam/ [bjeð̞ˈnãm]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: Viet‧nam

Proper noun

Vietnam m

1. Vietnam

Related terms

• vietnamita

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Swedish

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam n (genitive Vietnams)

1. Vietnam

Anagrams

• vitmena

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Turkish

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Nam.

Proper noun

Vietnam

1. Vietnam

Declension

Declension of Vietnam

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	Vietnam	-
definite accusative (belirtme)	Vietnam'ı	-
dative (yönelme)	Vietnam'a	-
locative (bulunma)	Vietnam'da	-
ablative (ayrılma)	Vietnam'dan	-
genitive (tamlayan)	Vietnam'ın	-

    possessive of Vietnam

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Vietnam'ım	Vietnamlarım / Vietnam'larım
senin (your)	Vietnam'ın	Vietnamların / Vietnam'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Vietnam'ı	Vietnamları / Vietnam'ları
bizim (our)	Vietnam'ımız	Vietnamlarımız / Vietnam'larımız
sizin (your)	Vietnam'ınız	Vietnamlarınız / Vietnam'larınız
onların (their)	Vietnam'ı / Vietnamları / Vietnam'ları	Vietnamları / Vietnam'ları

Derived terms

• Vietnamlı
• Vietnamca

See also

• (countries of Asia) Asya ülkesi; Afganistan, Azerbaycan, Bahreyn, Bangladeş, Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri, Bruney, Butan, Çin, Doğu Timor, Endonezya, Ermenistan, Filistin, Filipinler, Güney Kore, Gürcistan, Hindistan, Irak, İran, İsrail, Japonya, Kamboçya, Katar, Kazakistan, Kıbrıs, Kuveyt, Kuzey Kore, Kırgızistan, Laos, Lübnan, Maldivler, Malezya, Mısır, Moğolistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Özbekistan, Pakistan, Rusya, Singapur, Sri Lanka, Suriye, Suudi Arabistan, Tacikistan, Tayland, Tayvan, Türkiye, Türkmenistan, Umman, Ürdün, Vietnam, Yemen