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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.
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[372] [379] Throughout Vietnam's history, many Chinese people, largely from South China, migrated to the country as administrators, merchants and even refugees. [380] Since the reunification in 1976, an increase of communist policies nationwide resulted in the nationalisation and confiscation of property especially from the Hoa in the south and ...
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [14]
Map of Vietnam showing its territorial expansions, 11th to 19th century Đại Việt, Champa and Khmer Empire (12th century) Northern and Southern dynasties (Vietnam)(1533–1592) Vietnam in 17th century during the Trịnh–Nguyễn War Map of Vietnam under the control of Trịnh lords and Nguyễn lords Map of division of French Indochina North and South Vietnam (1954–1976)
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History of Vietnam being invaded and ruled by China rule has had substantial influence from French colonial scholarship and Vietnamese postcolonial national history writing. During the 19th century, the French promoted the view that Vietnam had little of its own culture and borrowed it almost entirely from China.