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Children. 2. Website. Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen(Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971[a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
920 ha (3.6 sq mi) Mỹ Sơn (Vietnamese pronunciation: [mǐˀ səːn]) is a cluster of abandoned and partially ruined Shaiva Hindu temples in central Vietnam, constructed between the 4th and the 13th century by the Kings of Champa, an Indianized kingdom of the Cham people. [1][2] The temples are dedicated to the veneration of God in accordance ...
Vietnam, [ e ][ f ] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [ g ] 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.
There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam as officially recognized by the Vietnamese government. [1] Each ethnicity has their own unique language, traditions, and culture. The largest ethnic groups are: Kinh 85.32%, Tay 1.92%, Thái 1.89%, Mường 1.51%, Hmong 1.45%, Khmer 1.32%, Nùng 1.13%, Dao 0.93%, Hoa 0.78%, with all others accounting for the remaining 3.7% (2019 census). [2]
UTC+7 (Indochina Time) Vũng Tàu (Hanoi accent: [vuŋm˧ˀ˥ taːw˨˩] ⓘ, Saigon accent: [vuŋm˧˩˧ taːw˨˩] ⓘ) is the largest city of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province in southern Vietnam. It is the province's economic, financial and cultural centre, and a popular tourist hub in southern Vietnam.
Hội An (Vietnamese: [hôjˀ aːn] ⓘ), formerly known in the Western world as Faifoo or Faifo, is a city of approximately 120,000 people in Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. [1] Along with the Cù Lao Cham archipelago, it is part of the Cù Lao Cham-Hội An Biosphere Reserve, designated ...
The first edition of Nguoi Viet Daily News was a four-page publication, printed and distributed on December 15, 1978, in San Diego, California. [ 2 ] 2,000 copies of the first issue, paid for with $4,000 of life savings from the couple's Vietnam War escape, were printed in their garage with the assistance of the other members of their family ...
The official name of the North Vietnamese state was the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam" (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa). The South was known as the " Republic of Vietnam ". Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation: [vjə̀tnam]) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. [ 22 ] It is a variation of " Nam Việt " (南 越 ...