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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.
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.
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 ...
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
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 ...
In the center of the zone (the pole), the day is one year long, with six months of daylight and six months of night. The frigid zones are the coldest regions of Earth and are generally covered in ice and snow. It receives slanting rays of the Sun, as this region lies farthest from the equator.
This is a list of countries with territory that straddles more than one continent, known as transcontinental states or intercontinental states. [1]Contiguous transcontinental countries are states that have one continuous or immediately-adjacent piece of territory that spans a continental boundary, most commonly the line that separates Asia and Europe.
State-run. Voice of Vietnam: State radio broadcaster; Vietnam Television: State television broadcaster; Vietnam News Agency: Official state news agency; Nhân Dân : Official Communist Party newspaper; Quân đội Nhân Dân: Newspaper of the People's Army; Vietnam Net: Largest Vietnamese portal, run by the government-owned Vietnam Post and ...