Vietnam (Listeni/ˌviːətˈnɑːm/, /viˌɛt-/, /-ˈnæm/, /ˌvjɛt-/;[7]
Vietnamese pronunciation: [viət˨ næm˧] ( listen)), officially the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (
SRV; Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa
Việt Nam (About this sound listen)), 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.[8] Its capital city has been
Hanoi since the reunification of
North and South Vietnam in
1976.
Vietnam was part of
Imperial China for over a millennium, from
111 BC to
AD 938. The
Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in 938, following the Vietnamese victory in the
Battle of Bạch Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the
French in the mid-19th century.
Following a
Japanese occupation in the
1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the
First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam.
Conflict between the two sides intensified, with heavy intervention from the
United States, in what is known as the
Vietnam War. The war ended with a
North Vietnamese victory in
1975.
Vietnam was then unified under a communist government but remained impoverished and politically isolated. In
1986, the government initiated a series of economic and political reforms which began Vietnam's path towards integration into the world economy.[9] By
2000, it had established diplomatic relations with all nations (except
South Sudan). Since 2000, Vietnam's economic growth rate has been among the highest in the world,[9] and, in
2011, it had the highest
Global Growth Generators
Index among 11 major economies.[10] Its successful economic reforms resulted in its joining the
World Trade Organization in
2007.
However, regardless of the advancements that have been made in recent years, the country still experiences high levels of income inequality, disparities in access to healthcare, and a lack of gender equality
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