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Location	Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia .
Geographic coordinates	16 00 N, 106 00 E.
Map references	Southeast Asia.
Area	Total: 329,560 sq km Land: 325,360 sq km Water: 4,200 sq km .
Land Boundaries	Total: 4,639 km.
Border Countries	Cambodia 1,228 km, China 1,281 km, Laos 2,130 km.
Coastline	3,444 km (excludes islands).
Climate	Tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season (mid-October to mid-March).
Geography — Note	Extending 1,650 km north to south, the country is only 50 km across at its narrowest point.
Population	81,098,416 (July 2002 est.).
Age Structure	0-14 years: 31.6% (male 13,259,152; female 12,392,089) 15-64 years: 62.9% (male 24,938,098; female 26,083,681) 65 years and over: 5.5% (male 1,749,531; female 2,675,865) (2002 est.).
Population growth rate	1.43% (2002 est.).
Ethnic groups	Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups.
Religions	Buddhist, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), indigenous beliefs, Muslim.
Languages	Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian).
Literacy	Definition: age 15 and over can read and write Total population: 93.7% Male: 96.5% Female: 91.2% (1995 est.).
Country Name	Conventional Long Form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam Conventional Short Form: Vietnam Local Short Form: Viet Nam Abbreviation: SRV Local Long Form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam .
Government type	Communist state.
Capital	Hanoi.
Independence	2 September 1945 (from France).
National holiday	Independence Day, 2 September (1945).
Constitution	15 April 1992.
Legal System	Based on communist legal theory and French civil law system.
Suffrage	18 years of age; universal.
GDP	Purchasing Power Parity - $168.1 billion (2001 est.).
GDP - real growth rate	4.7% (2001 est.).
GDP - per capita	Purchasing Power Parity - $2,100 (2001 est.).
GDP - composition by sector	Agriculture: 25% Industry: 35% Services: 40% (2000 est.).
Population below poverty line	37% (2001 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share	Lowest 10%: 3.6% Highest 10%: 29.9% (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	- 0.3% (2001 est.).
Labor force	38.2 million (1998 est.)
Labor force - by occupation	Agriculture 67%, industry and services 33% (1997 est.).
Budget	Revenues: $5.3 billion Expenditures: $5.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $1.8 billion (1999 est.).
Industries	Food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper .
Agriculture - products	Paddy rice, corn, potatoes, rubber, soybeans, coffee, tea, bananas, sugar, poultry, pigs, fish .
Exports	$15.1 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.).
Exports - commodities	Crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes.
Exports - partners	Japan 18.1%, China 10.6%, Australia 8.8%, Singapore 6.1%, Taiwan 5.2%, Germany 5.1%, US 5.1% (2000).
Imports	$15.3 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.).
Imports - commodities	Machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles.
Imports - partners	Singapore 17.7%, Japan 14.4%, Taiwan 12.1%, South Korea 11.1%, China 9.1%, Thailand 5.2%, Hong Kong 3.9% (2000).
Currency	Dong (VND).
Currency code	VND.
Fiscal year	Calender Year.

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