Vietnam

Extracted Attributes

• Area

  Approximately 331,000 square kilometers

• Type

  Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic

• Capital

  Hanoi

• Population

  Over 100 million

• Coordinates

  16.0° N, 108.0° E

• Largest City

  Ho Chi Minh City

• Official Name

  Socialist Republic of Vietnam

• Economic Status

  Developing country, lower-middle-income economy, socialist-oriented market economy

• Economic Reforms

  Đổi Mới (initiated in 1986)

• Current Challenges

  Corruption, censorship, environmental issues, poor human rights record

• Geographic Location

  Southeast Asia, eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia

• Global Population Ranking

  Fifteenth most populous country

Timeline

• Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age. (Source: undefined)

  Paleolithic age

• Early states, such as the Van Lang State, formed on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. (Source: undefined)

  1st millennium BC

• Northern and Central Vietnam came under Chinese rule after the Han dynasty's invasion. (Source: undefined)

  111 BC

• The first Vietnamese dynasty emerged, gaining independence from Chinese rule. (Source: undefined)

  939 AD

• Vietnam was effectively divided into two domains: Đàng Trong and Đàng Ngoài. (Source: undefined)

  17th and 18th centuries

• The Nguyễn dynasty, the last imperial dynasty, surrendered to France. (Source: undefined)

  1883-00-00

• Vietnam's territory was integrated into French Indochina as three separate regions. (Source: undefined)

  1887-00-00

• The country was usually called Annam until this year, when the imperial government adopted Việt Nam. (Source: undefined)

  1945-00-00

• The Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, launched the August Revolution and declared Vietnam's independence from the Empire of Japan, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. (Source: undefined)

  1945-09-02

• The First Indochina War began as France sought to reclaim colonial power. (Source: undefined)

  1946-00-00

• Vietnam emerged victorious from the First Indochina War; as a result of treaties, Vietnam was separated into North and South Vietnam. (Source: undefined)

  1954-00-00

• The Vietnam War began between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam. (Source: undefined)

  1955-00-00

• North Vietnam achieved victory, leading to the reunification of the country. (Source: undefined)

  1975-00-00

• Vietnam reunified as a unitary communist state, officially named the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. (Source: undefined)

  1976-07-02

• Vietnam became bogged down in Cambodia. (Source: undefined)

  1978-00-00

• Vietnam fought a war with China. (Source: undefined)

  1979-00-00

• The Communist Party of Vietnam initiated economic and political reforms (Đổi Mới), transforming the country into a socialist-oriented market economy. (Source: undefined)

  1986-00-00

• Vietnam aspires to become a high-income country. (Source: undefined)

  2045-00-00

• Vietnam aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. (Source: undefined)

  2050-00-00

Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. One of two communist states in Southeast Asia, Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. Before the Han dynasty's invasion, Vietnam was marked by a vibrant mix of religion, culture, and social norms. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam, which were subsequently under Chinese rule from 111 BC until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta, conquering Champa. During most of the 17th and 18th centuries, Vietnam was effectively divided into two domains of Đàng Trong and Đàng Ngoài. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. In 1887, its territory was integrated into French Indochina as three separate regions. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the Viet Minh, a coalition front led by the communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, launched the August Revolution and declared Vietnam's independence from the Empire of Japan in 1945. Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of the treaties signed between the Viet Minh and France, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary communist state that self-designated as a socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy, a trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a socialist-oriented market economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into the global economy and politics. Vietnam is a developing country with a lower-middle-income economy. It has high levels of corruption, censorship, environmental issues and a poor human rights record. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN, the APEC, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OIF, and the WTO. It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice.

Web Search Results

• Vietnam - Wikipedia

  Vietnam is located on the eastern Indochinese Peninsula between the latitudes 8° and 24°N, and the longitudes 102° and 110°E. It covers a total area of 331,210 km2 (127,881 sq mi) or 331,699 km2 (128,070 sq mi). The combined length of the country's land boundaries is 4,639 km (2,883 mi), and its coastline is 3,444 km (2,140 mi) long. At its narrowest point in the central Quảng Bình province, the country is as little as 50 kilometres (31 mi) across, though it widens to around 600 kilometres (370 [...] Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia.''-250) Although Vietnam remains officially committed to socialism as its defining creed, its economic policies have grown increasingly capitalist, with The Economist characterising its leadership as "ardently capitalist communists". Under the constitution, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) asserts their role in all branches of the country's [...] (Vietnamese: nước Nam của người Việt) or even "Viet of the South", per Vietnamese word order. Between 1804 and 1813, the name Vietnam was used officially by Emperor Gia Long. It was revived in the early 20th century in Phan Bội Châu's History of the Loss of Vietnam, and later by the Vietnamese Nationalist Party (VNQDĐ). The country was usually called Annam until 1945, when the imperial government in Huế adopted Việt Nam.

• History of Vietnam - Wikipedia

  In June 1954 Vietnam won full independence.( Following the French defeat, the country was divided into two states in July. As part of the Cold War, a civil war quickly broke out between a North Vietnam supported by China and the Soviet Union, and a South Vietnam aided by the United States. It ended with the defeat of the South in 1975 and unification under a communist government in 1976. Vietnam then fought a war with China in 1979 and was bogged down in Cambodia from 1978 to 1989,( along with [...] Vietnam, with its coastal strip, rugged mountainous interior, and two major deltas, became home to numerous cultures throughout history. Its strategic geographical position in Southeast Asia also made it a crossroads of trade and a focal point of conflict, contributing to its complex and eventful past. The first Ancient East Eurasian hunter-gatherers arrived at least 40,000 years ago. Around 4,000 years ago during the Neolithic period, Ancient Southern East Asian populations, particularly [...] The basic nature of Vietnamese society changed little during the nearly 1,000 years between independence from China in the 10th century and the French conquest in the 19th century. Viet Nam, named Đại Việt (Great Viet) was a stable nation, but village autonomy was a key feature. Villages had a unified culture centered around harmony related to the religion of the spirits of nature and the peaceful nature of Buddhism. While the sovereign was the ultimate source of political authority, a saying

• Brief history of Vietnam

  Viet Nam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centers practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place. On the basis of socio-economic development in the Dong Son Era and given the struggle against natural disasters and foreign invasion, the Van Lang State, the first State in Viet Nam was established in the 7th century B.C. With their hard work and creativeness, the Van Lang (and then Au Lac) inhabitants [...] Since the 2nd century B.C, Viet Nam had been dominated by different Chinese feudal dynasties for more than a thousand years. During this period, the existence of the nation had been challenged, giving rise to the spirit of undauntedness and unyieldingness of the Vietnamese people in the struggle to maintain the nation’s vitality, to preserve the quintessence of its culture and to gain national independence. [...] The founding of the Communist Party of Viet Nam on 3 February 1930 was an important milestone in the Vietnamese history. In August 1945, under the leadership of the Communist Party headed by President Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese people successfully launched an uprising to seize power and the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam came into being on 2 September 1945.

• The World Bank In Viet Nam

  Viet Nam is a remarkable development success story. Economic reforms since the launch of Đổi Mới in 1986, coupled with favorable global trends, helped transform Viet Nam from one of the world’s poorest countries to a middle-income economy in a single generation. Real GDP per capita soared from less than $700 in 1986 to almost $4,500 in 2023 (in constant 2023 dollars), and the share of the population living on less than $3.65/day (in 2017 purchasing power parity) plummeted from 14 percent in [...] Viet Nam's shift from a centrally planned to a market economy has transformed the country from one of the poorest in the world into a lower middle-income country. Viet Nam now is one of the most dynamic emerging countries in the East Asia region. Viet Nam Home Overview Overview -------- Context Strategy Results [...] Viet Nam aspires to become a high-income country by 2045. Doing so will require an average annual per capita economic growth of about 6 percent for the next 20 years, which would more than triple income per capita. Viet Nam also aims to grow in a greener, more inclusive way. At COP27, it pledged to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent, halt deforestation by 2030, and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

• History of Vietnam | People, Culture, Vietnam War, Maps, & Facts

  Encyclopedia Britannica Encyclopedia Britannica Vietnam Vietnam Vietnam Le Loi Cochinchina, French Indochina Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai Learn how the French waged war on the communist Viet Minh in the First Indochina War after World War II Examine early U.S. involvement in Vietnam under the Eisenhower administration during the First Indochina War Vietnam (1954–76) Ngo Dinh Diem Nguyen Cao Ky See how the North Vietnamese-backed Viet Cong launched surprise attacks across South Vietnam Vietnam War theater [...] history of Vietnam, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Vietnam. Located in the eastern portion of mainland Southeast Asia, Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, the South China Sea to the east and south, the Gulf of Thailand (Gulf of Siam) to the southwest, and Cambodia and Laos to the west. The capital, Hanoi, is located in the north, while the country’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), is in the south. Vietnam experienced a period of prolonged [...] warfare in the mid-20th century and a partitioning (1954–75), first militarily and later politically, into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, better known as North Vietnam, and the Republic of Vietnam, usually called South Vietnam. Following reunification in April 1975, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was established in July 1976.

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• Country

  Vietnam

• Instance Of

  Q849866

• Population

  96,208,984

• Coordinates

  Lat: 16.0, Lon: 108.0

• Inception Date

  7/2/1976

Vietnam or Viet Nam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam, [vîət nāːm]), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of 311,699 square kilometres (120,348 sq mi) and population of 96 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and largest city Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon) Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta, conquering Champa. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. Following the August Revolution, the nationalist Viet Minh under the leadership of communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence from France in 1945. Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of treaties signed two years later, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, it was the war between communist North supported by the Soviet Union and China, and anti-communist South supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy, a trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a market-oriented economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into global economy and politics. A developing country with a lower-middle-income economy, Vietnam is nonetheless one of the fastest growing economies of the 21st century, with GDP predicted to rival developed nations by 2050. Vietnam has high levels of corruption, censorship and a poor human rights record; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN, the APEC, the CPTPP, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OIF, and the WTO. It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice.