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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.
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 map of Köppen climate classification Hundreds of active fires burning across the hills and valleys of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam (labelled with red dots). Vietnam's climate, being located in the tropics and strongly influenced by the South China Sea has a monsoon-influenced climate typical of that of mainland Southeast Asia.
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 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.
Province as of 21 March 1890. Hà Nam: Lê Hoàn: Ngoclu drum, musaceae: Province as of 6 November 1996. Nam Định: Đắp xây non nước phú cường [1] (To build a prosperous and powerful country) Prince Hungdao: Phổ Minh Temple, rice, artocarpus heterophyllus, bombax ceiba, anabas testudineus: Re-established province as of 6 November ...
Provinces Province (Quốc ngữ) Province (Hán-Nôm) Provincial capital (Quốc ngữ) Provincial capital (Hán-Nôm) Region (Quốc ngữ) Region (Hán-Nôm) Region (English) tỉnh An Giang: 省安江: thành phố Long Xuyên: 城舖龍川: Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long: 垌平瀧九龍: Mekong Delta tỉnh Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu ...
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 ...