Vietnam  
   
Geography
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Area: total: 331,210 sq km
land: 310,070 sq km
water: 21,140 sq km
Natural Resources: phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower
Population and Health
Population:  89,571,130 (July 2010 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 25.6% (male 11,994,692/female 10,939,088)
15-64 years: 68.8% (male 30,746,066/female 30,922,425)
65 years and over: 5.5% (male 1,903,504/female 3,065,355) (2010 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.096% (2010 est.)
Birth rate:

17.29 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
Death rate:  5.97 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth: 1.115 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.1 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.62 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 21.57 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 21.95 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 21.15 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population: 71.94 years
male: 69.48 years
female: 74.69 years (2010 est.)
Total fertility rate: 1.93 children born/woman (2010 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.5% (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  290,000 (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  24,000 (2007 est.)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.3%
male: 93.9%
female: 86.9% (2002 est.)
Economy
GDP (purchasing power parity): 

$258.1 billion (2009 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): 

$92.84 billion (2009 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 

5.3% (2009 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): 

$2,900 (2009 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 21.3%
industry: 40%
services: 38.7% (2009 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: 

agriculture: 51.8%
industry: 15.4%
services: 32.7% (30 April 2009)
Population below poverty line:

12.3% (2009 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):

7% (2009 est.)
Agriculture - products:

paddy rice, coffee, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood
Industries:

food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building; mining, coal, steel; cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, paper
Industrial production growth rate:

5.5% (2009 est.)
Exports - commodities:

crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
Currency (code):

Dong (VND)
Others
Nationality: noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural)
adjective: Vietnamese

Religions: 

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)

Languages: 

Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Country name:

conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
conventional short form: Vietnam
local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam
local short form: Viet Nam
abbreviation: SRV
Government type: 

Communist state
Capital:

name: Hanoi (Ha Noi)
geographic coordinates: 21 02 N, 105 51 E
time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Administrative Divisions : 58 provinces (tinh, singular and plural) and 5 municipalities (thanh pho, singular and plural)
provinces: An Giang, Bac Giang, Bac Kan, Bac Lieu, Bac Ninh, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Ca Mau, Cao Bang, Dac Lak, Dac Nong, Dien Bien, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai, Ha Giang, Ha Nam, Ha Tinh, Hai Duong, Hau Giang, Hoa Binh, Hung Yen, Khanh Hoa, Kien Giang, Kon Tum, Lai Chau, Lam Dong, Lang Son, Lao Cai, Long An, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Phu Tho, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Son La, Tay Ninh, Thai Binh, Thai Nguyen, Thanh Hoa, Thua Thien-Hue, Tien Giang, Tra Vinh, Tuyen Quang, Vinh Long, Vinh Phuc, Yen Bai
municipalities: Can Tho, Da Nang, Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City
Independence: 

2 September 1945 (from France)
Legal system: based on communist legal theory and French civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
 
 

 
 

Source :

CIA The World Factbook