Travel Guide, Vietnam
Vietnam is a country with the look of a "bamboostick with two rice bowles" which refers to the two fruitful river deltas in the North and the South (the rice bowles) combined by a slim, dry region dominated by forests and moutains (the bamboostick).
It is a communist country with 54 different ethnicities living across Vietnam. After struggeling through the Vietnam War in the 20th century, Vietnam kept constantly recovering from it and since a couple of years the country is attracting more and more tourists.
It is a communist country with 54 different ethnicities living across Vietnam. After struggeling through the Vietnam War in the 20th century, Vietnam kept constantly recovering from it and since a couple of years the country is attracting more and more tourists.
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Fast Facts
- When to go: From January to April, November and December.
- Population: 86,967,524 inhabitants
- Tourists per year: 3,560,000
- Area: 329,560 km2
- Capital: Hanoi
- Language(s): Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
- Altitude (in meters): 0
- Telephone code (prefix): 84
- Per capita income (USD/year): 828
- Major exports: crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
- Major imports: machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles
- http://www.mofa.gov.vn/en/
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