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The two south central provinces Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận are sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region. This region is the most economically developed region in Vietnam. In 2006, this region contributed 148,000 billion VND (equal to $9.25 billion) out of 251,000 billion VND to the state budget. [4]
The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit. 'Nine Dragon River Delta' or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, 'Mekong River Delta'), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of ...
Pù Mát National Park is about 120 km south-west of Vinh City, Nghệ An province. This is a large forest area in North Central Vietnam and is also a biosphere reserve in the world. With beautiful natural landscape, Pu Mat is an attractive ecological tourist destination that attracts domestic and foreign tourists.
Today, this port network is the hub for the export and import of goods in south Vietnam – the economic hub of the nation, which accounts for more than two-thirds of Vietnam's economy, and the Mekong delta farming as one of the more productive in the world, and the main producer of cereals (rice) and shrimp in Vietnam.
Đồng Nai is one of Vietnam's main manufacturing centers. It has attracted 9.1% of FDI [clarification needed] into Vietnam by 2011, an accumulated US$18.2 billion, the fourth largest after Ho Chi Minh City, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province and Hanoi. [5] Industrial gross output in 2011 was VND 314 trillion, 10.6% of the national value. [5]
The name Việt Nam (pronounced [viə̂tˀ nāːm], chữ Hán: 越南), literally "Viet South", means "Viet of the South" per Vietnamese word order or "South of the Viet" per Classical Chinese word order. [15] A variation of the name, Nanyue (or Nam Việt, 南越), was first documented in the 2nd century BC. [16]
It has a population of around 1,507,187 as of 2024, [9] and is located on the south bank of the Hậu River, a distributary of the Mekong River. In 2007, about 50 people died when the Cần Thơ Bridge collapsed, causing Vietnam's worst engineering disaster. [10] In 2011, Cần Thơ International Airport opened. [11]
Landmark 81 is a supertall skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [1] It is primarily invested and developed by Vinhomes, the largest Vietnamese real-estate developer.. Landmark 81 holds the position of the tallest building in Vietnam, the second tallest building in Southeast Asia, as well as the seventeenth tallest building in the world o