Vietnam officially
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula
in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 90.5
million inhabitants as of 2014, 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. Its capital city has been Hanoi since the
reunification of North and South Vietnam in 1976.
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