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Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin , Gulf of Thailand , and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos , and Cambodia .
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries. The figures in the table ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
Country / dependency % total Asia area in km 2 (mi 2); 1 Russia 29.3%: 13,083,100 (5,051,400) [a]2 China 21.5%: 9,596,961 (3,705,407) [b]3 India 7.4%: 3,287,263 ...
Vietnam claims an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of 1,395,096 km 2 (538,650 sq mi) with 200 nautical miles (370.4 km; 230.2 mi) from its shores. [1] [2]Excluding all disputed waters, Vietnam has an undisputed exclusive economic zone of 417,663 km 2 (161,261 sq mi).
Vietnam was partitioned at the 17th parallel in 1954. Bảo Đại (1949–1955). Abdicated as emperor (constitutional monarch) in 1945 following surrender of Imperial Japanese occupying forces at the end of World War II, later serving as head of state to 1955. 1955–1975 Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng Hòa).
The city is the economic center of Vietnam and accounts for a large proportion of the economy of Vietnam. Although the city takes up just 0.6% of the country's land area, it contains 8.34% of the population of Vietnam, 20.2% of its GDP, 27.9% of industrial output and 34.9% of the FDI projects in the country in 2005. [83]