Vietnam

• Area: 331,210 sq. km (127,881 sq. mi.)
• Population: 95,261,021 (2016 est.)
• Population growth rate: 0.95% (2016 est.)
• Life expectancy: 73.4 years (2016)
• Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
• Religions: Buddhist 7.9%, Catholic 6.6%, Hoa Hao 1.7%, Cao Dai 0.9%, Protestant 0.9%, Muslim 0.1%, none 81.8%
• Formal name: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
• Alternate names: Công Hòa Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Việt Nam
• Government type: communist state
• Leaders: chief of state: President Tran Dai QUANG; head of government: Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan PHUC
• Capital: Hanoi
• Administrative divisions: 58 provinces and 5 municipalities
• GDP per capita (PPP): $6,000 (2015 est.)
• Exports: clothes, shoes, electronics, seafood, crude oil, rice, coffee, wooden products, machinery
• Imports: machinery and equipment, petroleum products, steel products, raw materials for the clothing and shoe industries, electronics, plastics, automobiles
• Currency: dong (VND)

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