Viet Nam
General country information
| Hanoi | |
| Communist state | |
| 329560 km2 | |
| 86116560 (July 2008 est.) / 261/km2 | |
| Dong (VND) currency converter | |
| $ 2600 (2007 est.) | |
| 0.733 (2005) | |
| Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) | |
| Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census) | |
| tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March) | |
