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Regions of Vietnam Topographic map of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987.
It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. With a population of over 98 million, Vietnam is the 15th most populous country in the world. Vietnam was under Chinese control for a thousand years before becoming a nation-state in the 10th century.
The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, [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.
A Chinese fried rice dish, named after the Yangzhou region in China, it is a well-known dish in Vietnam. Cơm gà rau thơm (chicken and rice with mint) This dish is rice cooked in chicken stock and topped with fried then shredded chicken, with mint and other herbs. The rice has a unique texture and taste that the fried mint garnish enhances.
Each cuisine has similarities to foods and cuisines in neighboring countries and regions, including the Cuisine of Burma, Yunnan cuisine, Lao cuisine, Cambodian cuisine and Malaysian cuisine. [47] Vietnamese cuisine is a style of cooking derived from Vietnam with Chinese and French influence.
The smallest is Bắc Ninh, located in the populous Red River Delta region. The following is a table of Vietnam's provinces broken down by population and area, according to the 2023 Census and the 2018 area data from Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. [2] [4] Municipalities are written in bold.
The Northern Vietnam is the traditional homeland of the ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh people) where the Đông Sơn culture existed with the first states appearing here, the region later was ruled by Nanyue and later the various Chinese dynasties until the independence in 939 and influenced by Han Chinese culture, language, and migration. After the ...