General Profile
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Area: total: 329,560 sq km
land: 325,360 sq km
water: 4,200 sq km
Climate: tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season (mid-October to mid-March)
Terrain: low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and nortwest
Capital: Hanoi
Administrative divisions: 59 provinces (tinh) and 5 municipalities (thu do) : provinces: An Giang, Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan,Ca Mau, Cao Bang, Dac Lak, Dac Nong, Dien Bien, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai,Ha Giang, Hai Duong, Ha Nam, Ha Tay, Ha Tinh, Hau Giang, Hoa Binh, Hung Yen, Khanh Hoa, Kien Giang, Kon Tum, Lai Chau, Lam Dong, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Long An, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Phu Tho, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Son La, Tay Ninh,Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien-Hue, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Long, Vinh Phuc, Yen Bai: municipalities: Can Tho, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh
Population: 83,535,576 (2005 est.)
Ethnic groups: Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, other 4.1%
Nationality: noun: Vietnamese
adjective: Vietnamese
Languages: Vietnamese (official), English, French, Chinese, and Khmer; hilltribe languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Religions: Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, no affiliation 80.8%
Literacy: 90.3%
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Economical Profile
Currency (code): dong (VND)
GDP: $251.8 billion (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $3,000 (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities: marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
Exports - partners: US, Japan, China, Australia, Germany, Singapore, UK
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles
Imports - partners: China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong
Agriculture - products: paddy rice, coffee, fish and seafood, rubber, cotton, tea, paper, soybeans, cashews, sugarcane, peanut, bananas, poultry
Industries: food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, oil, coal, steel, paper
Source : The World Fact Book 2005 (www.cia.gov) |