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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.
The national language of the country is Vietnamese, a tonal Austroasiatic language (Mon–Khmer), which is spoken by the majority of the population. Vietnam's minority groups speak a variety of languages, including: Tày, Mường, Cham, Khmer, Chinese, Nùng, and Hmong.
In 2021, Paul Sidwell proposed that the locus of Proto-Austroasiatic languages was in this area about 4,000–4,500 years before present. [5] The Hong River Delta is the cradle of the Vietnamese nation. Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies here. The region was bombed by United States warplanes during the Vietnam War.
Afrikaans; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; 閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú; Башҡортса; Беларуская
The border between Indonesia and Vietnam is a maritime border located in the South China Sea to the north of Indonesia's Natuna Islands. The two countries signed an agreement to determine their continental shelf boundary on 26 June 2003 in Hanoi , Vietnam .
An enlargeable topographic map of Vietnam. Geography of Vietnam. Vietnam is: a country; Location: Northern Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere; Eurasia Asia Southeast Asia Indochina; Time zone: UTC+07; Extreme points of Vietnam High: Fan Si Pan 3,143 m (10,312 ft) Low: South China Sea 0 m; Land boundaries: 4,639 km Laos 2,130 km China 1,281 km
Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand. Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971.Largely inspired by the British use of chemicals 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (Agent Orange) during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, it was part of the overall herbicidal warfare program during the war called "Operation Trail Dust".
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