Vietnam (
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[7] Vietnamese
pronunciation: [viət˨
naːm˧] (
listen)),
officially the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (
SRV;
Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam
(
listen)),
is the easternmost country on the
Indochina Peninsula in
Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.3 million
inhabitants as of 2012, it is the world's
13th-most-populous country, and
the
eighth-most-populous Asian
country.
The name
Vietnam translates as "Southern Viet" (synonymous with the much older term
Nam Viet); it
was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor
Gia Long, and was adopted again in 1945 with the
founding of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
under
Ho Chi Minh. The
country is bordered by China to the north,
Laos to the northwest,
Cambodia to the southwest, and the
South China Sea to the
east.
[8] Its capital city has
been
Hanoi since the reunification of
North and
South Vietnam in 1976.
More at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam
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