Country guide

Vietnam

Capital, flag, borders and quick geography facts for Vietnam.

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Key facts

Capital
Hanoi
Region
Asia
Area
331,212 km²
Population
101,343,800

Neighboring countries

Vietnam has 3 land neighbors in the country data.

Learn Vietnam

Vietnam's capital is Hanoi. The country uses a Latin-based alphabet called Quoc Ngu, unlike the scripts used by its mainland Southeast Asian neighbors.

Vietnam covers 331,212 square kilometers and borders three countries, with China as its largest neighbor. Hang Son Doong is the world's largest cave passage by volume.

The saola, nicknamed the 'Asian unicorn' for its extreme rarity, remained unknown to science until it was discovered in Vietnam in 1992.

Trivia

  • Ha Long Bay in northern Vietnam contains around 1,600 limestone karst islands and islets and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.
  • Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the world's largest cave passage by volume, big enough to fit a 40-story skyscraper inside.
  • Water puppetry, in which puppeteers stand waist-deep to perform on a pool's surface, is a folk art form that originated in Vietnam's Red River Delta and is found nowhere else.
  • The saola, nicknamed the 'Asian unicorn' for its extreme rarity, was unknown to science until its discovery in Vietnam in 1992.
  • Vietnamese is written with a Latin-based alphabet called Quoc Ngu, setting it apart from the scripts used by its mainland Southeast Asian neighbors.

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