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Vietnam , officially the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (
SRV ), is a country at the eastern edge of
mainland Southeast Asia , with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's
fifteenth-most populous country . Vietnam shares land borders with
China to the north, and
Laos and
Cambodia to the west. It shares
maritime borders with
Thailand through the
Gulf of Thailand , and the
Philippines ,
Indonesia , and
Malaysia through the
South China Sea . Its capital is
Hanoi and its largest city is
Ho Chi Minh City (commonly referred to by its former name, Saigon).
Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam . The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism , and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta , conquering Champa . During most of the 17th and 18th centuries, Vietnam was effectively divided into two domains of Đàng Trong and Đàng Ngoài . The Nguyễn —the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. In 1887, its territory was integrated into French Indochina as three separate regions. In the immediate aftermath of World War II , the nationalist coalition Viet Minh , led by the communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh , launched the August Revolution and declared Vietnam's independence in 1945.
Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II , France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War , from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of the treaties signed between the Viet Minh and France, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, between the communist North Vietnam , supported by the Soviet Union and China , and the anti-communist South Vietnam , supported by the United States . Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy , a trade embargo by the West , and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform , transforming the country to a socialist-oriented market economy . The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into the global economy and politics .
Vietnam is a developing country with a lower-middle-income economy. It has high levels of corruption , censorship , environmental issues and a poor human rights record ; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties , freedom of the press , and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities . It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN , the APEC , the CPTPP , the Non-Aligned Movement , the OIF , and the WTO . It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice. (Full article... )
Haiphong (Vietnamese : Hải Phòng ) is the third-largest city in Vietnam and is the principal port city of the Red River Delta . The municipality has an area of 1,526.52 km2 (589.39 sq mi), consisting of 8 urban districts and 7 rural districts . Two of the rural districts cover islands in the South China Sea : Bạch Long Vĩ and Cát Hải . It has a population of 2,359,000 in 2021. The city's economy has strength in manufacturing, as evident by large industrial parks and numerous smaller traditional handicraft villages. Historically, Haiphong is the first place in Vietnam and Mainland Southeast Asia to get electricity .
In the imperial era of
Đại Việt , the
Bạch Đằng River in Haiphong was a place of many legendary victories, led by now-legendary commanders
Ngô Quyền and
Trần Hưng Đạo . In the 16th century,
Mạc dynasty has promoted the coastal settlement as a secondary capital, growing to become an important port town of
Đàng Ngoài . After the
French conquest of Vietnam , in 1888, the president of the
French Third Republic ,
Sadi Carnot , promulgated a decree to establish Haiphong as one of the principal cities of the
French Indochina . From 1954 to 1975, Haiphong served as the most important maritime city of
North Vietnam . It was one of directly-controlled municipalities of a reunified Vietnam with
Hanoi and
Ho Chi Minh City in 1976. In the 21st century, Haiphong is under active
land reclamation , the most recent effort being the construction of
South Đình Vũ dike in 2022. (
Full article... )
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Image 1 Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
Image 2 The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at
Sơn Trà District ,
Da Nang , Vietnam
Image 3 The train station at
Da Lat
Image 4 Imperial City of Huế , recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the
Nguyễn dynasty .
Image 5 View of
Ho Chi Minh City from
Bitexco Financial Tower , Vietnam
Image 6 Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in
Huế , Vietnam
Image 7 Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune,
Thuận Thành District , Bắc Ninh Province.
Image 8 The painting depicts the retired emperor
Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm.
Image 9 The sunset over
Hanoi , after a rain
Image 10 Thích Quảng Đức 's self-immolation during the
Buddhist crisis in Vietnam.
Image 11 Hanging fishing nets in the
Cu Đê River , just before it merges with Da Nang Bay
Image 12 Making salt by evaporation of sea water near
Ninh Hòa town,
Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam
Image 13 A view of
Mường Thanh Valley from
Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam
Image 14 Water puppetry , lit. "Making
puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the
Red River Delta area of northern
Vietnam .
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