Full name: Vietnam
Nationality
noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural) adjective: Vietnamese
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Area total: 329,560 sq km land: 325,360 sq km water: 4,200 sq km
Population: 83,535,576 (July 2005 est.)
Ethnic groups
Vietnamese 85%-90% Chinese Hmong Thai Khmer Cham mountain groups
Capital: Hanoi, population 1,075,000
Largest Cities
Haiphong – 785,000
Da Nang – 385,000 Nha Trang – 225,000
Official Language
Vietnamese (official) English (increasingly favored as a second language) French Chinese Khmer mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Religion
Buddhist Hoa Hao Cao Dai Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant) indigenous beliefs Muslim
Political system: Communist state
GDP: purchasing power parity – $227.2 billion (2004 est.)
GDP per head: purchasing power parity – $2,700 (2004 est.)
Annual growth: 7.7% (2004 est.)
GDP – composition by sector
agriculture: 21.8% industry: 40.1% services: 38.1% (2004 est.)
Inflation: 9.5% (2004 est.)