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Vietnam – sovereign country located on the eastern extent of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia. [1] It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.
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 .
Vietnam is located on the eastern Indochinese Peninsula between the latitudes 8° and 24°N, and the longitudes 102° and 110°E. It covers a total area of 331,210 km 2 (127,881 sq mi) [8] or 331,699 km 2 (128,070 sq mi). [9]
The extreme points of Vietnam include the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost locations in Vietnam's territory, as well as the highest and the lowest altitudes in Vietnam. Because Vietnam is located in the eastern Indochinese Peninsula, the northernmost point and the westernmost point both lie on the land, and there are two ...
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English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 106, 16, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Vietnam is highlighted in red.
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