Vietnam , officially the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam , 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 the two
Marxist–Leninist 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 nationalist coalition Viet Minh , 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 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. (Full article...
The Spratly Islands Filipino : Kapuluan ng Kalayaan ; Mandarin Chinese : 南沙群島/南沙群岛 ; pinyin : Nánshā Qúndǎo Malay : Kepulauan Spratly ; Vietnamese : Quần đảo Trường Sa ) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea . Composed of islands, islets , cays , and more than 100 reefs , sometimes grouped in submerged old atolls , the archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines , Malaysia , and southern Vietnam . Named after the 19th-century British whaling captain Richard Spratly who sighted Spratly Island in 1843, the islands contain less than 200 ha (500 acres) of naturally occurring land area that is spread over hundreds of square km of the South China Sea.
The Spratly Islands are one of the major archipelagos in the South China Sea which complicate governance and economics in this part of Southeast Asia due to their location in strategic shipping lanes. The islands are largely uninhabited, but offer rich fishing grounds and may contain significant oil and natural gas reserves, and as such are important to the claimants in their attempts to establish international boundaries. Some of the islands have civilian settlements, but of the approximately 45 islands, cays, reefs and shoals that are occupied, all contain structures that are occupied by military forces from Malaysia, China (PRC) , Taiwan (ROC) , the Philippines, and Vietnam. Additionally, Brunei has claimed an exclusive economic zone in the southeastern part of the Spratly Islands, which includes the uninhabited Louisa Reef . (Full article...
Image 1 Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in
Huế , Vietnam
Image 2 Water puppetry , lit. "Making
puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the
Red River Delta area of northern
Vietnam .
Image 3 View of
Ho Chi Minh City from
Bitexco Financial Tower , Vietnam
Image 4 The sunset over
Hanoi , after a rain
Image 5 The train station at
Da Lat
Image 6 A view of
Mường Thanh Valley from
Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam
Image 7 The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at
Sơn Trà District ,
Da Nang , Vietnam
Image 8 Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune,
Thuận Thành District , Bắc Ninh Province.
Image 9 Making salt by evaporation of sea water near
Ninh Hòa town,
Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam
Image 10 Hanging fishing nets in the
Cu Đê River , just before it merges with Da Nang Bay
Image 11 Thích Quảng Đức 's self-immolation during the
Buddhist crisis in Vietnam.
Image 12 The painting depicts the retired emperor
Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm.
Image 13 Imperial City of Huế , recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the
Nguyễn dynasty .
Image 14 Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
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The following are images from various Vietnam-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Vietnamese calligraphy depicting people on a boat, the calligraphy says, "Thuyền nhân" (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 2 Ba tầm hat, a popular type of women's hat in northern Vietnam (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 3 A Kinh Vietnamese woman with blackened teeth. (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 4 A trio of Vietnamese musicians performing together. The man on the far left plays
kèn đám ma , the man in the middle plays the
đàn nhị and the man on the right plays the
trống chầu . (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 5 Hanoi's
One Pillar Pagoda , a historic Buddhist temple (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 6 Vietnamese painting depicting a funeral during the
Nguyễn dynasty (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 7 Vietnamese statues depicting the traditional practice of
teeth blackening (nhuộm răng đen) (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 8 Water puppet theatre in
Hanoi (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 9 A lantern procession during Tết Trung Thu in Vietnam, which is also celebrated as "Children's Festival". (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 10 19th-century manuscript of "Mysterious tales of the Southern Realm" (
Lĩnh Nam chích quái ), a copy of 15th-century original tale. (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 11 Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715-1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in
Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 12 Handwritten Vietnamese (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 13 Court attires of Nguyễn Dynasty (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 14 Portrait of Nguyễn Quý Đức (1648-1720) wearing
áo giao lĩnh (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 15 Traditionally, people wore white clothes along with white turbans during funerals. Vietnamese officials Hồ Đắc Trung, Tôn Thất Hân,
Nguyễn Hữu Bài and Đoàn Đình Duyệt depicted during the funeral of emperor
Khải Định . (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 16 Empress Nam Phương wearing
áo nhật bình and
khăn vành dây (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 18 Ceremonial procession of
Thành hoàng , 19th century (from
Culture of Vietnam )
Image 20 Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification (from
Geography of Vietnam )
Wikinews Vietnam portal
3 January 2025 – Air quality technology company IQAir reports that Hanoi , Vietnam , has the worst air pollution of any city on Earth , with levels of hazardous small particles, known as PM2.5 , measured at 266 micrograms per cubic metre. (Reuters) 18 December 2024 – Eleven people are killed and two others are injured in an arson attack on a bar in Hanoi , Vietnam . (Al Jazeera)
3 December 2024 – A court in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam , upholds the death penalty for real estate tycoon Trương Mỹ Lan after Lan was found guilty of embezzling $ 12.5 billion through the Sai Gon Joint Stock Commercial Bank . (VnExpress) (AP)
The South Korean tourism ministry announces that 38 Vietnamese citizens have gone missing from Jeju Island before their flight back to Vietnam on November 17. (Newsweek) (JoongAng Daily )
30 November 2024 – Vietnam approves a US$ 67 billion 1,541 kilometres (958 mi) high speed rail line from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City , which will be an updated version of the North–South express railway proposal. (Reuters) 21 October 2024 – The National Assembly of Vietnam appoints army general Lương Cường as the country's president , succeeding Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm . (VOA) (AP) (VnExpress)
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