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This is a list of outlines of present-day nations, states, and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Vietnam: 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.
Outline of Burma; Outline of Cambodia; Outline of China [2] Outline of Cyprus; Outline of East Timor; Outline of Georgia; Outline of India; Outline of Indonesia; Outline of Iran; Outline of Iraq; Outline of Israel; Outline of Japan; Outline of Jordan; Outline of Kazakhstan; Outline of Kuwait; Outline of Kyrgyzstan; Outline of Laos; Outline of ...
Each entry below is an outline, an introduction to a subject structured as a hierarchical list of the essential points.Each of these outlines focuses on a country. Along with Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines, the outlines on Wikipedia form an all-encompassing outline of the knowledge of humankind.
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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. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
According to the Montevideo convention, a state must have a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states. These states were categorized accordingly independent of our endorsement or opposition to their statehood and is based solely on their de facto and de jure statuses [9]
The Vietnam War began shortly after, between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976.