Sฦกn ฤoรฒng here is the largest known cave passage in the world, with its own jungle and clouds inside.
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Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam ยท Viแปt Nam
Asia
ยท South-Eastern Asia
0Population
331.21Kkmยฒ of land
$2.72KGDP / person
HanoiCapital
- ISO codes
- VN ยท VNM
- Density
- 291 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Currency
- Vietnamese ฤแปng (VND)
- Dial code
- +84
- Internet domain
- .vn
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 21.7150ยฐ N, 105.3870ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Vietnamese
- UN region
- South-Eastern Asia
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $261.92B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Vietnam stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
15th
of 242 ยท 1.26% of world population
Land area
68th
of 242 ยท 0.22% of world land
GDP per person
178th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
44th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Vietnam
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 96,462,106 people, the 15th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 1.26 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 331,212 kmยฒ, making it the 68th largest country here - about 10.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 291 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Hanoi, at 21.04ยฐ N, 105.85ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 4,378,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Cambodia, China and Laos.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Asia/Ho Chi Minh.
The currency is the Vietnamese ฤแปng (VND, symbol โซ).
The official language is Vietnamese.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Asia/Ho Chi Minh
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UTC+07:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
Ho Chi Minh City
H? Chรญ Minh city
10.7820ยฐ N, 106.6931ยฐ E
5.31M
2
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Hanoi
Thรกi Nguyรชn
21.0353ยฐ N, 105.8481ยฐ E
4.38M
3
Haiphong
Qu?ng Ninh
20.8320ยฐ N, 106.6781ยฐ E
1.97M
4
Da Nang
รร N?ng
16.0600ยฐ N, 108.2500ยฐ E
1M
๐งญ Worth the trip
Ha Long Bay
Nature
Roughly 1,600 limestone karst towers rising from jade water, hollowed through with caves and hidden lagoons.
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Vietnam.