Persian
/ English
conventional long form: Socialist
Republic of Vietnam
conventional short form: Vietnam
local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam
local short form: Viet Nam
abbreviation: SRV
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of
Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and
Cambodia
total: 329,560 sq km
land: 325,360 sq km
water: 4,200 sq km
82,689,518 (July 2004 est.)
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly
favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain
area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
food processing, garments, shoes,
machine-building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil,
coal, steel, paper
crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee,
rubber, tea, garments, shoes
machinery and equipment, petroleum products,
fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles