Information on the country of Vietnam

Country information

Lying on the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula, Vietnam is a strip of land shaped like the letter "S". Vietnam borders China to the north and Laos and Cambodia to the west. Along the east is the East Sea and the Pacific Ocean sits also to the east and south. Vietnam is divided into 63 provinces and cities and three quarters of Vietnam's territory consists of mountains and hills.

• Capital: Hanoi
• Population: 90 million
• National Language: Vietnamese
• Currency: Dong
• Train operator: Vietnam Railways
• Time Zone: UTC/GMT + 7 hours
• Calling Code: +84
• Internet TLD: .vn
• Drives on right