Vietnam
Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia with great food and a wealth of natural and cultural attractions. Despite the turmoil of the Vietnam War, Vietnam has emerged from the ashes since the 1990s and is undergoing rapid economic development, driven by its young and industrious population.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Hoi.
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known as Saigon or by the…
Dong Hoi
Dong Hoi is the capital city of Quang Tri Province in Central Coast of Vietnam.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Southern Vietnam and Central Coast.
Southern Vietnam
Southern Vietnam covers the Mekong Delta, the extreme…
Central Coast
The Central Coast is a region of Vietnam.
Northern Vietnam
Northern Vietnam is the cradle of the Vietnamese…
Central Highlands
The Central Highlands of Vietnam are a distinct…
Vietnam
- Country with about 96,200,000 residents
- …has Hanoi as its capital
- …uses the Dong (VND)
- …has the phone code 84
- …uses the internet domain .vn
- …covers 329,560 km² (127,244 miles²)
- Description: country in Southeast Asia
- Also known as“Cộng Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam”“Socialist Republic of Viet Nam”“SRV”“VIE”“VN”“VNM”
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Latitude of center
16.13° or 16° 7′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
107.644° or 107° 38′ 38″ east
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Vietnam” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Виетнам”
- Achinese: “Viètnam”
- Adyghe: “Вьетнам”
- Afrikaans: “Viëtnam”
- Akan: “Viɛtnam”
- Albanian: “Republika Socialiste e Vietnamit”
- Albanian: “Vietnam”
- Albanian: “Vietnami”
- Amharic: “ቬት ናም”
- Amis: “Vietnam”
- Angika: “वियतनाम”
- Arabic: “جمهورية فيتنام الاشتراكية”
- Arabic: “فيتنام”
- Aragonese: “Bietnam”
- Aragonese: “Vietnam”
- Armenian: “Վիետնամ”
- Arpitan: “Viêt Nam”
- Assamese: “ভিয়েটনাম”
- Asturian: “República Socialista de Vietnam”
- Asturian: “Việt Nam”
- Atayal: “Vietnam”
- Avaric: “Вьетнам”
- Awadhi: “भियतनाम”
- Aymara: “Vietnam”
- Azerbaijani: “VSR”
- Azerbaijani: “Vyetnam Sosialist Respublikası”
- Azerbaijani: “Vyetnam”
- Balinese: “Viétnam”
- Bambara: “Vietnam”
- Bambara: “Wiyɛtinamu”
- Banjar: “Vietnam”
- Bashkir: “Вьетнам”
- Basque: “Vietnam”
- Batak Toba: “Pietnam”
- Bavarian: “Vietnam”
- Belarusian: “В’етнам”
- Belarusian: “Віетнам”
- Bengali: “ভিয়েতনাম”
- Betawi: “Piètnam”
- Bhojpuri: “वियतनाम”
- Bishnupriya: “ভিয়েতনাম”
- Bislama: “Vietnam”
- Bosnian: “Vijetnam”
- Brahui: “Vetnám”
- Breton: “Republik Sokialour Viêt Nam”
- Breton: “Viêt Nam”
- Buginese: “Béqneng”
- Buginese: “Biyéq Neng”
- Buginese: “Péqneng”
- Buginese: “Piyéq Neng”
- Buginese: “Vietnam”
- Buginese: “ᨄᨗᨐᨙ ᨊᨛ”
- Buginese: “ᨄᨙᨊᨛ”
- Buginese: “ᨅᨗᨐᨙ ᨊᨛ”
- Buginese: “ᨅᨙᨊᨛ”
- Bulgarian: “Виетнам”
- Bulgarian: “Социалистическа република Виетнам”
- Burmese: “ဗီယက်နမ်”
- Burmese: “ဗီယက်နမ်နိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “República Socialista del Vietnam”
- Catalan: “Vietnam”
- Cebuano: “Biyetnam”
- Central Bikol: “Bietnam”
- Central Kanuri: “Vietnam”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤیێتنام”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤێتنام”
- Central Okinawan: “ベトナム”
- Chamorro: “Vietnam”
- Chavacano: “Vietnam”
- Chechen: “Вьетнам”
- Cherokee: “ᏫᎡᏘᎾᎻ”
- Cherokee: “ᏫᎡᏘᎾᎻᏱ”
- Cheyenne: “Vietnam”
- Chinese: “Yuènán”
- Chinese: “越南”
- Chinese: “越南社会主义共和国”
- Chinese: “越南社會主義共和國”
- Church Slavic: “Виѥтнамъ”
- Chuvash: “Вьетнам”
- Cornish: “Vietnam”
- Corsican: “Vietnam”
- Crimean Tatar: “Vyetnam”
- Croatian: “Vijetnam”
- Czech: “Vietnam”
- Czech: “Vietnamská socialistická republika”
- Czech: “VSR”
- Dagbani: “Vietnam”
- Danish: “Vietnam”
- Dhivehi: “ވިއެޓުނާމު”
- Dimli (individual language): “Vietnam”
- Dotyali: “भियतनाम”
- Dutch: “Socialistische Republiek Vietnam”
- Dutch: “Vietnam”
- Dutch: “VN”
- Dutch: “VNM”
- Dzongkha: “བེཊ་ནཱམ”
- Dzongkha: “ཝི་ཡཏ་ནམ་”
- Eastern Mari: “Вьетнам”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فييتنام”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤييتنام”
- Emilian: “Vietnam”
- Erzya: “Вьетнам Мастор”
- Esperanto: “Vjetnamio”
- Esperanto: “Vjetnamo”
- Esperanto: “Vjetnamujo”
- Estonian: “Vietnam”
- Estonian: “Vietnami Sotsialistlik Vabariik”
- Ewe: “Vietnam nutome”
- Ewe: “Vietnam”
- Extremaduran: “Vietnam”
- Faroese: “Vjetnam”
- Fiji Hindi: “Vietnam”
- Fijian: “Vietnam”
- Finnish: “Vietnam”
- Finnish: “Vietnamin sosialistinen tasavalta”
- French: “la République socialiste du Vietnam”
- French: “Việt Nam”
- French: “VN”
- Friulian: “Vietnam”
- Fulah: “Vietnam”
- Fulah: “Wiyetnaam”
- Fulah: “Wiyetnam”
- Gagauz: “Vyetnam”
- Galician: “República Socialista de Vietnam”
- Galician: “Vietnam”
- Gan Chinese: “越南”
- Ganda: “Vyetinaamu”
- Georgian: “ვიეტნამი”
- German: “Sozialistische Republik Vietnam”
- German: “Vietnam”
- German: “VN”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Vietnam”
- Gilaki: “ویتنام”
- Goan Konkani: “Vietnam”
- Goan Konkani: “विएतनाम”
- Goan Konkani: “व्हिएतनाम”
- Gorontalo: “Vietnam”
- Greek: “Βιετνάμ”
- Greek: “Σοσιαλιστική Δημοκρατία του Βιετνάμ”
- Guarani: “Vienã”
- Guarani: “Vietnam”
- Guianese Creole French: “Viêt Nam”
- Gujarati: “વિએટનામ”
- Gujarati: “વિયેતનામ”
- Haitian: “Vyetnam”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ye̍t-nàm”
- Hausa: “Biyetinam”
- Hausa: “Vietnam”
- Hawaiian: “Wiekanama”
- Hebrew: “ויאטנם”
- Hebrew: “וייטנאם”
- Hiligaynon: “Biyetnam”
- Hindi: “वियतनाम”
- Hungarian: “Vietnám”
- Hungarian: “Vietnámi Szocialista Köztársaság”
- Iban: “Vietnam”
- Icelandic: “Víetnam”
- Ido: “Vietnam”
- Igbo: “Vietnam”
- Iloko: “Bietnam”
- Inari Sami: “Vietnam sosialistlâš täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Vietnam”
- Indonesian: “Republik Sosialis Vietnam”
- Indonesian: “Vietnam”
- Ingush: “Вьетнам”
- Interlingua: “Vietnam”
- Interlingue: “Vietnam”
- Inuktitut: “ᕕᐊᑦ ᓈᒻ”
- Inupiaq: “Piatnak”
- Inupiaq: “Vietnam”
- Irish: “Poblacht Sóisialach Vítneam”
- Irish: “Vítneam”
- Italian: “Vietnam”
- Italian: “VN”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Vietnam”
- Japanese: “ヴェトナム”
- Japanese: “ベトナム”
- Japanese: “ベトナム社会主義共和国”
- Japanese: “越”
- Japanese: “越南”
- Japanese: “越南社会主義共和国”
- Javanese: “Viètnam”
- Jèrriais: “Vietnam”
- Jèrriais: “Vyitename”
- Jju: “Bvyetnam”
- Kabardian: “Виетнам”
- Kabiyè: “Fɩyɛtɩnaam”
- Kabyle: “Vietnam”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Vietnam”
- Kalaallisut: “Vietnam”
- Kalmyk: “Вьетдин Орн”
- Kannada: “ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vietnam”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Vyetnam”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Вьетнам”
- Kashmiri: “ویتنام”
- Kashmiri: “ویٹِنام”
- Kashubian: “Wietnam”
- Kazakh: “Вьетнам”
- Khmer: “ប្រទេសវៀតណាម”
- Khmer: “យួន”
- Khmer: “វៀតណាម”
- Khmer: “សាធារណរដ្ឋសង្គមនិយមវៀតណាម”
- Kikuyu: “Vietinamu”
- Kikuyu: “Vietnam”
- Kinaray-A: “Vyitnam”
- Kinaray-A: “Vyutnam”
- Kinyarwanda: “Viyetinamu”
- Kirghiz: “Bьeтнам”
- Kirghiz: “Вьетнам”
- Kölsch: “Vietnam”
- Komering: “Vietnam”
- Komi: “Вьетнам”
- Kongo: “Repubilika ya Bantu ya Vyetunami”
- Kongo: “Vietnam”
- Korean: “베트남 사회주의 공화국”
- Korean: “베트남”
- Korean: “월남 사회주의 공화국”
- Korean: “월남”
- Korean: “윁남”
- Kurdish: “Viyetnam”
- Kurdish: “ڤیەتنام”
- Ladin: “Vietnam”
- Ladino: “Vietnam”
- Lao: “ປະເທດຫວຽດນາມ”
- Lao: “ຫວຽດນາມ”
- Latgalian: “Vjetnams”
- Latin: “Vietnamia”
- Latvian: “Vjetnama”
- Lezghian: “Виэтнам”
- Lezghian: “Вьетнам”
- Ligurian: “Vietnam”
- Limburgan: “Viëtnam”
- Lingala: “Vietnami”
- Lingala: “Viyetinamɛ”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Vietnam”
- Literary Chinese: “安南”
- Literary Chinese: “越”
- Literary Chinese: “越南”
- Literary Chinese: “越南社會主義共和國”
- Lithuanian: “Vietnamas”
- Livvi: “Vietnamu”
- Lojban: “vietnam”
- Lombard: “Vietnam”
- Low German: “Vietnam”
- Lower Sorbian: “Vietnam”
- Luba-Katanga: “Viyetiname”
- Luxembourgish: “Sozialistesch Republik Vietnam”
- Luxembourgish: “Vietnam”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Vietnam”
- Macedonian: “Виетнам”
- Madurese: “Viètnam”
- Magahi: “वियत नाम”
- Maithili: “भियतनाम”
- Malagasy: “Vietnam”
- Malagasy: “Vietnamy”
- Malay: “Republik Sosialis Vietnam”
- Malay: “Vietnam”
- Malay: “ۏيئيتنم”
- Malayalam: “വിയറ്റ്നാം”
- Maltese: “il-Vjetnam”
- Maltese: “Repubblika Soċjalista tal-Vjetnam”
- Maltese: “Vjetnam”
- Manchu: “ᠶᡠᠸᡝᡳ ᠨᠠᠨ”
- Manipuri: “ꯚꯤꯌꯦꯠꯅꯥꯝ”
- Manipuri: “ꯚꯦꯠꯅꯥꯝ”
- Manx: “Yn Vietnam”
- Maori: “Whitināma”
- Maori: “Whitināmu”
- Maori: “Witināma”
- Marathi: “व्हिएतनाम”
- Marathi: “व्हियेतनाम”
- Mazanderani: “ویتنام”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Uŏk-nàng”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Yue Nam”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oa̍t-lâm-lâng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “O̍at-lâm”
- Minangkabau: “Vietnam”
- Mingrelian: “ვიეტ ნამი”
- Mingrelian: “ვიეტნამიშ სოციალისტურ რესპუბლიკა”
- Mirandese: “Bietname”
- Moksha: “Виетнам”
- Mongolian: “Вьетнам”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ڤييطنام”
- Mossi: “Vietnam”
- N'Ko: “ߝ߭ߋߕߌߣߊߡ”
- Nauru: “Bitinam”
- Navajo: “Tábąąh Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah”
- Neapolitan: “Vietnam”
- Nepali: “भिएतनाम”
- Nepali: “भियतनाम”
- Newari: “भियतनाम”
- Nias: “Vietnam”
- North Ndebele: “Vietnam”
- Northern Frisian: “Wjetnam”
- Northern Luri: “ویتنام”
- Northern Sami: “Vietnam sosialisttalaš dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Vietnam”
- Northern Sami: “Vietnama sosialisttalaš dásseváldi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den sosialistiske republikk Vietnam”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vietnam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vietnam”
- Norwegian: “Vietnam”
- Novial: “Vietnam”
- Nyanja: “Vietnam”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vietnam”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Fietnam”
- Oriya: “ଭିଏତନାମ୍”
- Oromo: “Veetinaam”
- Ossetian: “Вьетнам”
- Pa'o Karen: “ဗီယက်နမ်ခမ်းထီ”
- Pali: “वियेतनाम”
- Pampanga: “Bietnam”
- Pampanga: “Viatnam”
- Pampanga: “Vietnam”
- Pangasinan: “Vietnam”
- Panjabi: “ਵੀਅਤਨਾਮ”
- Papiamento: “Vietnam”
- Pedi: “Vietnam”
- Pennsylvania German: “Vietnam”
- Persian: “ویتنام”
- Pfaelzisch: “Vietnam”
- Picard: “Vietnam”
- Piemontese: “Vietnam”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Wiyetnaam”
- Polish: “Socjalistyczna Republika Wietnamu”
- Polish: “Wietnam”
- Pontic: “Βιετνάμ”
- Portuguese: “República Socialista do Vietnã”
- Portuguese: “República Socialista do Vietname”
- Portuguese: “VIE”
- Portuguese: “Việt Nam”
- Portuguese: “Vietnã”
- Portuguese: “Vietname”
- Portuguese: “VN”
- Portuguese: “VNM”
- Pushto: “ويتنام”
- Pushto: “وېتنام”
- Quechua: “Vietnam”
- Quechua: “Witnam”
- Romanian: “Republica Socialistă Vietnam”
- Romanian: “VIE”
- Romanian: “Viêt-Nam”
- Romanian: “VN”
- Romansh: “Vietnam”
- Rundi: “Vietnam”
- Rundi: “Viyetinamu”
- Russia Buriat: “Вьетнам”
- Russian: “Вьетнам”
- Russian: “Социалистическая Республика Вьетнам”
- Rusyn: “Вєтнам”
- Sakizaya: “Vietnam”
- Samoan: “Viatename”
- Samoan: “Vietnam”
- Samogitian: “Vietnams”
- Sango: “Vietnäm”
- Sanskrit: “चम्पादेशः”
- Sanskrit: “वियतनाम”
- Santali: “ᱵᱷᱤᱭᱮᱛᱱᱟᱢ”
- Sardinian: “Repùbrica Sotzialìsta de su Vietnàm”
- Sardinian: “Vietnàm”
- Saterfriesisch: “Vietnam”
- Scots: “Socialist Republic o Viet Nam”
- Scots: “Viet Nam”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bhiet-Nam”
- Serbian: “Vijetnam”
- Serbian: “Вијетнам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vijetnam”
- Shan: “မိူင်းဝႅတ်ႉၼမ်း”
- Shona: “Vietnam”
- Sicilian: “Ripùbblica Sucialista dû Vietnam”
- Sicilian: “Ripùbbrica Sucialista dû Vietnam”
- Sicilian: “Vietnam”
- Silesian: “Wjetnam”
- Sindhi: “ويتنام”
- Sindhi: “ويٽنام”
- Sinhala: “වියට්නාමය”
- Skolt Sami: “Vietnaam sosialiistlaž tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Vietnaam”
- Slovak: “Vietnam”
- Slovak: “Vietnamská socialistická republika”
- Slovenian: “Socialistična republika Vietnam”
- Slovenian: “VIE”
- Slovenian: “Việt Nam”
- Slovenian: “VN”
- Somali: “Fiyetnaam”
- Somali: “Fiyetnam”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویئتنام”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویتنام”
- Southern Sotho: “Vietnam”
- Spanish: “República Socialista de Vietnam”
- Spanish: “Viet Nam”
- Sranan Tongo: “Vi-etnam”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴼⵢⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵜⴰⵎⵥⵕⴰⵎⵓⵏⵜ ⵏ ⴼⵢⵉⵜⵏⴰⵎ”
- Sundanese: “Viétnam”
- Swahili: “Socialist Republic of Vietnam”
- Swahili: “SRV”
- Swahili: “Việt Nam”
- Swahili: “Vietnamu”
- Swahili: “VN”
- Swahili: “VNM”
- Swati: “IViyethina”
- Swedish: “Socialistiska republiken Vietnam”
- Swedish: “Vietnam”
- Swiss German: “Vietnam”
- Sylheti: “ꠅꠤꠄꠔꠘꠣꠝ”
- Sylheti: “ꠜꠘ”
- Sylheti: “ꠜꠤꠄꠔꠘꠣꠝ”
- Tachelhit: “Fyitnam”
- Tagalog: “Vietnam”
- Tagalog: “Viyëtnam”
- Tahitian: “Vietu Namu”
- Tajik: “Ветнам”
- Tajik: “Вйетнам”
- Talysh: “Vjetnam”
- Tamil: “வியட்நாம்”
- Taroko: “Vietnam”
- Tatar: “Вьетнам”
- Telugu: “వియట్నాం”
- Telugu: “వియత్నాం”
- Tetum: “Vietname”
- Thai: “VIE”
- Thai: “ญวน”
- Thai: “ประเทศเวียดนาม”
- Thai: “เวียด”
- Thai: “เวียดนาม”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐสังคมนิยมเวียดนาม”
- Thai: “เหวียดนาม”
- Thai: “เหวียตนาม”
- Tibetan: “བི་དི་ནམ།”
- Tibetan: “ཝི་ཏི་ནམ།”
- Tigrinya: “ቬትናም”
- Tok Pisin: “Vietnam”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Vietināmi”
- Tsonga: “Vietnam”
- Tswana: “Vietnam”
- Tulu: “ವಿಯೆಟ್ನಾಮ್”
- Tumbuka: “Vietnam”
- Tunisian Arabic: “ڥياتنام”
- Turkish: “Vietnam Sosyalist Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Vietnam”
- Turkmen: “Wýetnam Sosialistik Respublikasy”
- Turkmen: “Wýetnam”
- Twi: “Vietnam”
- Tyap: “Viyetnam”
- Udmurt: “Вьетнам”
- Uighur: “ۋىيېتنام”
- Uighur: “ۋيېتنام”
- Ukrainian: “В’єтнам”
- Ukrainian: “Соціалістична Республіка В’єтнам”
- Upper Sorbian: “Vietnam”
- Urdu: “ویت نام”
- Uzbek: “Vyetnam Sotsialistik Respublikasi”
- Uzbek: “Vyetnam”
- Uzbek: “Вьетнам Социалистик Республикаси”
- Uzbek: “Вьетнам”
- Venda: “Viëtnam”
- Venetian: “Vietnam”
- Veps: “Vjetnam”
- Veps: “Vjetnaman Socialistine Tazovaldkund”
- Vietnamese: “CHXHCN Việt Nam”
- Vietnamese: “CHXHCNVN”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam”
- Vietnamese: “Việt Nam”
- Vietnamese: “VN”
- Vlaams: “Socialistische Republiek Vietnam”
- Vlaams: “Vietnam”
- Vlax Romani: “Vietnam”
- Volapük: “Vietnamän”
- Võro: “Vietnam”
- Walloon: “Vietnam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vietnam”
- Welsh: “Fiet Nam”
- Western Armenian: “Վիեթնամ”
- Western Frisian: “Fjetnam”
- Western Frisian: “Sosjalistyske Republyk Fjetnam”
- Western Frisian: “Vietnam”
- Western Panjabi: “ویتنام”
- Wolof: “Wiyetnaam”
- Wolof: “Wiyetnam”
- Wu Chinese: “越”
- Wu Chinese: “越南”
- Wu Chinese: “越南社会主义共和国”
- Xhosa: “Vietnam”
- Yakut: “Вьетнам”
- Yiddish: “וויעטנאַם”
- Yoruba: “Fẹtinami”
- Yoruba: “Fiẹtnám”
- Yue Chinese: “越”
- Yue Chinese: “越南”
- Yue Chinese: “越南社會主義共和國”
- Zeeuws: “Vietnam”
- Zhuang: “Yiednamz”
- Zulu: “i-Vietnam”
- Zulu: “IViyetnami”
- “Bietnan”
- “Bietnan Axkayotl”
- “ma Wije”
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