VIETNAM
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VIETNAM
is one of the three countries that make up Indochina in Southeast ASIA.
Though mostly known to the Western world for its war that was mortalized
in decades of films, Vietnam is now increasingly becoming known for its
stunning beauty and tourist delights. The long, thin country's impressive
landscape is made up of mountain highlands, rice paddy fields, pretty beaches
along 3000 kilometres of coast line, and a maze of waterways where the great
Mekong River empties into the South China Sea.
Seventy-seven
percent of Vietnam's 83 million people live in the countryside, and ten
percent belong to various ethnic minority groups. Run by the capital of
Hanoi in the north, Vietnam is one of the world's last one-party communist
states, though it's socialist market economy encourages private and international
commerce.
The official
language is Vietnamese, the currency used is the dong and the phone country
code is 84.
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