Socialist Republic of Vietnam

State · 1976–2026 CE · at its largest around 1976 CE

The unified Vietnamese state proclaimed in 1976 after North Vietnam's victory over the South. Ruled by the Communist Party, it adopted the Doi Moi market reforms in 1986.

On its lands while it lasted

Saigon (1862–1976 CE): Capital of French Indochina (1887–1954).
Pol Pot (1925 CE – 1998 CE): Leader of the Khmer Rouge and of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979, whose regime was responsible for the Cambodian genocide.
Cambodian genocide (1975–1979 CE): Under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, an estimated 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians died from execution, forced labour and starvation.