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OFFICIAL NAME
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Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
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GEOGRAPHY
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Coastal country of Indo-c hina, bordered by the Gulf of Tonkin (east) and the South C hina Sea (southeast), and three countries: C hina (north), Laos (west) and Cambodia (southwest). | |
AREA
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329,566 sq km / 127,245 sq miles | |
COMPARATIVE
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slightly larger than the state of New Mexico | |
POPULATION
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81,624,700 | |
CAPITAL
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Hanoi (pop 3.5 million) | |
LITERACY
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94% (age 15+ and can read and write) | |
LANGUAGE
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Official: Vietnamese Other: French, Russian, C hinese, English |
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RELIGION
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Buddhism is the principal religion but there are also sizeable Taoist, Confucian, Hoa Hao, Cao Daists, Muslim and Christian minorities. | |
POLITICS
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Socialist/Communism state with both a President and a Prime Minister. Vietnam won its independence from France in 1954. | |
INCOME
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Per capita income = US$ 550 per year | |
CURRENCY
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Dong (D) | |
TIME ZONE
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GMT/UTC +7 | |
SOURCES
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Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News. |
Country Profile
News: Country-Specific
- Viet Nam News - The national English language daily
- VietnamNews.net
- Vietnam Globe
News: Asia General
- Channel News Asia (all Asia)
- World News Asia (all Asia)
Travel
- Vietnam National Administration of Tourism
- Lonely Planet/Vietnam
- U.S. State Department Travel/Vietnam consular page
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