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Country Profile
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Geography
Location
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia
Climate
tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March)
Government Type
Communist State
Capital
Hanoi
People
Population
85,262,356 (July 2007 est.)
Life Expectancy at Birth
total population: 71.07 years
male: 68.27 years
female: 74.08 years (2007 est.)Ethnic Groups
Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census)
Religions
Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Currency
The official Vietnam currency is the dong (VND).
Communications
There is telephone, cellular phone, radio, television and internet access.
Transportation
Vietnam has 2,600 km of railways, 222,179 km of roadways (42,167 km of which are paved), 32 airports (26 with paved runways). Vietnam also has 2 ports and terminals: Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City.