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Official name
of country: Socialist Republic
of Vietnam
Capital city: Hanoi, population one million
Official language: Vietnamese
Type of government: People's Republic, controlled by the
Communist Party
Head of state: President
Head of government: Prime Minister
Population: 75 million
Main ethnic
groups: 87% ethnic Vietnamese,
3% ethnic Chinese, Khmer, Cham and 60 other minority ethnic groups
Main religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and Caodaism.
Christianity and Islam are minority religions.
feast day at a Buddhist temple
Area or size of the country: 329 566 square kilometres
worshippers at the Caodai temple
Currency: Dong (d), of 100 xu
Highest mountain: Fan si Pan (3143 metres)
Longest river: Mekong (4200 kilometres)
Time difference
from Australian Eastern Standard Time:
3 hours behind
Main agricultural
products: rice, soy beans,
coffee, tea, peanuts, rubber, pepper and sugar
Industries: fishing, plastics, bicycle manufacturing,
paper products, cotton textiles, food processing, tourism and
mining of petroleum, salt, coal and tin.
planting rice in Vietnam
Vietnam is a long, narrow strip
of land in South-east Asia, shaped like the letter 'S'. 
To the west, Vietnam has borders with Laos and Cambodia,
and in the north, a border with China. The South China Sea is
to the east and south.
Hear the Vietnamese National Anthem here
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8106/Anthems/vietnam.htm
See another kidcyber page about Vietnam
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/specials/goplaces/0,12405,187
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Acknowledge this
source in your bibliography like this:
Vietnam:
Facts in brief (2000).
[Online], Available: www.kidcyber.com.au
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updated October 2006