COUNTRY FACTS

 

Population:

78,773,873  (2000)

 

Location:

Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia

 

Area:

329,560 sq km

 

Language:

Vietnamese (official), Chinese, English, French, Khmer, tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)  

 

Literacy:

93.7% (by definition, total population age 15 or older)

 

Compulsory Education:

completion of primary education

 

Currency:

New Dong (D)

 

Source: UNESCO IBE Database and World Fact Book, CIA

 

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This country profile was developed by WES with funding from the Government of Ontario.

Revised: 05/06/2004
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