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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 borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
Border with Malaysia near mount Bukit Pagon: 115°25′E 25 Hong Kong: Tung Ping Chau, Tai Po: 114°26′E 26 Macau: A Pérola, Se 113°33′E 27 Vietnam: Hon Gom peninsula, Khánh Hòa Province: 109°30′E 28 Cambodia: Ratanakiri Province, border with Vietnam: 107°35′E 29 Laos: Border with Vietnam, Sekong Province: 106°40′E 30 Thailand
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] 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 Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The demarcation line did not exactly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Bến Hải River in Quảng Trị Province to the ...
near Lavumisa: 27°19′S Botswana: Bokspits: 26°54′S Mozambique: Coastal border with South Africa near Zitundo: 26°52′S Madagascar: Cape Vohimena: 25°37′S Tropic of Capricorn: 23°26′21″S Bolivia: Border with Chile, Sur Lípez Province: 22°54′S Zimbabwe: Mozambique/South Africa/Zimbabwe tripoint: 22°25′S France: Saint-Joseph ...
VietNam Map or a collection of Vietnamese maps; Encyclopædia Britannica – Vietnam; US State Department – Vietnam includes Background Notes, Country Study and major reports; US Library of Congress – Country Study: Vietnam; Information about Vietnam: from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affair
Vietnam stretches along the coast of the South China Sea, with the northernmost point being more than 1,650 km from the southernmost. [1] Most extreme points are not in dispute with any other countries; only one extreme point, Tennent Reef, is disputed by China, Taiwan, and the Philippines as a part of the Spratly Islands dispute (though ...