Vietnam
Vietnam (officially Socialist Republic of Vietnam) is a country in South-Eastern Asia, with its capital at Hanoi, and is home to roughly 101.0M people.
Vietnamese is the official language; the currency in circulation is Vietnamese đồng (₫); people from here are called Vietnamese.
- »Hang Sơn Đoòng is among the largest known caves in the world, with its own river, jungle and clouds.
- »Vietnam is one of the world's largest coffee exporters.
Vietnam touches three neighbours: Cambodia to the south, China to the north and Laos to the northwest. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Hanoi celebrated a thousand years as a capital in 2010. Its old quarter is organised into streets that were each named for the guild or trade that worked there.
328,425 km² (126,806 sq mi), 65th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Malaysia.
Population 100,987,686, 16th of 198 on file. That averages 307 per km² (796 per sq mi).
The gold star's five points stand for workers, peasants, soldiers, intellectuals and youth, on the red of revolution.
Easily confused with Kyrgyzstan and Montenegro.
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