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Vietnam
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16.17° N / 107.83° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Hanoi
- Population
- 100,987,686 2024
- Area
- 331,212 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Vietnamese
- Currency
- Vietnamese đồng (VND)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Vietnam
Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam) is a country in Southeast Asia with great food and a wealth of natural and cultural attractions.
Landscape & landmarks
Vietnam will show you sides of Asia that you've dreamed of. Lush rice fields at the bottom of stunningly gorgeous highlands, colourful water markets on the streams of the Mekong Delta and the endless bustling city life of Hanoi, where anything from school children to fridges and huge piles of vegetables are transported on the back of countless motorcycles.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Vietnam's national dish is phở (pronounced like the fu- in funny, but with tone), a broth soup with beef, pork, chicken or seafood and rice noodles (a form of rice linguine or fettuccine).Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-16. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- South-Eastern Asia
- Calling code
- +84
- Internet domain
- .vn
- Land border codes
- KHM, CHN, LAO
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .vn. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.