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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, between China and Cambodia

Area:
total area: 329,560 sq km
land area: 325,360 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than New Mexico

Land boundaries: total 3,818 km, Cambodia 982 km, China 1,281 km, Laos 1,555 km

Coastline: 3,444 km


People

Population: 74,393,324 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 36% (female 13,225,916; male 13,918,321)
15-64 years: 59% (female 22,353,710; male 21,223,739)
65 years and over: 5% (female 2,236,453; male 1,435,185)

Population growth rate: 1.71% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 26.25 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 7.6 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -1.51 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 44.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 65.72 years
male: 63.66 years
female: 67.91 years

Total fertility rate: 3.21 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese 3%, Muong, Thai, Meo, Khmer, Man, Cham

Religions: Buddhist, Taoist, Roman Catholic, indigenous beliefs, Islam, Protestant

Languages: Vietnamese (official), French, Chinese, English, Khmer, tribal languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989)
total population: 88%
male: 93%
female: 83%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
conventional short form: Vietnam

Type: Communist state

Capital: Hanoi

Independence: 2 September 1945 (from France)

Constitution: 15 April 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $83.5 billion

National product real growth rate: 8.8%

National product per capita: $1,140

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 14.4%

Unemployment rate: 20%

Electricity:
capacity: 2,200,000 kW
production: 9.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 125 kWh



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