Key facts
Capital: Hanoi (Ha Noi)
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, as well as China, Laos, and Cambodia
Government: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Currency: dong (VND)
Area: 331,210 sq km
Population: 102,789,598 (July 2021 est.)
Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Religion: Catholic 6.1%, Buddhist 5.8%, Protestant 1%, other 0.8%, none 86.3% (2009 est.)
TimeZone: UTC+7
Tel Code: +84
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