Names of Vietnam
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Throughout its history, Vietnam has been referred to by many names, either for the whole country or parts of it.
Plaque of the Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam in Beijing, being inscribed in standard Vietnamese and Chinese.
The endonym Vietnam was supposedly coined by 16th century poet Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
![10th century brick with Chữ Hán inscription: 大越國軍城塼 "Brick [to build] the Đại Việt State's military forts"](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t_qu%E1%BB%91c_qu%C3%A2n_th%C3%A0nh_chuy%C3%AAn.JPG/500px-%C4%90%E1%BA%A1i_Vi%E1%BB%87t_qu%E1%BB%91c_qu%C3%A2n_th%C3%A0nh_chuy%C3%AAn.JPG)
10th century brick with Chữ Hán inscription: 大越國軍城塼 "Brick [to build] the Đại Việt State's military forts"
Scholar consensus believes that the exonym of Yue, Yueh, and Viet peoples are related to their notorious axes. A bronze ax from Dong Son burial site, Thanh Hoa, North-central Vietnam, dated 500 BC.
Tonkin
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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
Administrative divisions of Tonkin, 1920
Tonkin, 1880s
Tonkin, 1883
Tonkin, 1883