VIETNAM
(Socialist Republic of Vietnam)

Capital: Hanoi

Flag: a flag red with a five-pointed gold star in the center.

Motto: Tian Quan (forward, soldiers!).

MONETARY BLOCK: Dong (d) - paper currency of 10 hectares and 100 kuna. There are coins of 1, 2 and 5 xu and also notes of 5 xu, 1, 2 and 5 hao and 1, 2, 5 and 10 dong. d1 = $0,00006 (or $1 = d15,855) as of 2005.

WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard, but some traditional measures are still used.

HOLIDAYS: Liberation of Saigon, on April 30; May Day, on May 1; Independence Day, on September 2. Mobile vacation includes the Vietnamese New year (Thetas).

TIME: 7th evenings = midday of GMT.

ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) is located on east coast of the mainland of Southeast Asia of 329 560 sq.km (127 244 quarter. Miles), 1,650 km long (1025 miles) nanosecond and 600 km (373 miles) of highway. Rather, the area occupied with Vietnam is a little more, than in the State of New Mexico. Vietnam is in the bottleneck in only 50 km (31 ми). The nation borders on China, in the east of Gulf of Tonkin, in the south of China, on the southwest coast of Thailand and on Cambodia and Laos, with the general overland border of 4 639 km (2,883 miles) and the coastline of 3444 km (2,140 miles). Before the association proclaimed on July 3, 1976 Vietnam was divided into two parts on the 17th parallel. In the south there was a Republic Vietnam (RVN) also known as the Southern Vietnam; in the north, Democratic Republic Vietnam (DRV), also known as Northern Vietnam.

Vietnam, China, Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Malaysia apply for everything or a part of the islands of Spratly and Paracel Islands located in the South China Sea approximately in 600 km (350 miles) to the east from the city of Ho Chi Minh and 400 km (250 miles)) to the east from Da Nanga, respectively. Paratselsky islands are known on Vietnamese as Hoang Sa archipelago, and Spratlis - as Truong Sa. It is reported that both archipelagoes are surrounded with rich diving reserves of oil and are productive trade sites. China occupied the Paracel Islands since 1974 when the Chinese troops conducted the southern Vietnamese garrison with the western islands. Vietnam occupies six of Spratly, and unsuccessfully conducts negotiations with Malaysia and Philippines on the rest. Periodic collisions between the Chinese and Vietnamese Navies happened near both island groups.
The capital of Vietnam, Hanoi, is located in a northern part of the country.

TOPOGRAPHY

Vietnam was described as the bearing column with the basket for drawing hanging since each end. The description is suitable for one mountain chain, Annam Cordillera (in Vietnamese, the son Chyong) stretches along the western border of Vietnam from the North for the South, connecting two "baskets with rice" which are formed by the densely populated Red River the Delta of the region Tonkin in the north and the rich delta of the Mekong River in the south.