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PROFILE
  • 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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