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Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam, [vîət nāːm] (

listen), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of 331,212 square kilometres (127,882 sq mi) and population of 99 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Vietnam share land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (commonly referred to by its former name, Saigon).

Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta, conquering Champa. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. Following the August Revolution, the nationalist coalition Viet Minh under the leadership of communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam's independence in 1945.

Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of the treaties signed between the Viet Minh and France, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, between the communist North, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South, supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy, a trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a market-oriented economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into the global economy and politics.

A developing country with a lower-middle-income economy, Vietnam is nonetheless one of the fastest-growing economies of the 21st century, with a GDP predicted to rival developed nations by 2050. Vietnam has high levels of corruption and censorship and a poor human rights record; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN, the APEC, the CPTPP, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OIF, and the WTO. It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice. (Full article...)

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The Buddhist Uprising of 1966 (Vietnamese: Nổi dậy Phật giáo 1966), or more widely known in Vietnam as the Crisis in Central Vietnam (Vietnamese: Biến động Miền Trung), was a period of civil and military unrest in South Vietnam, largely focused in the I Corps area in the north of the country in central Vietnam. The area is a heartland of Vietnamese Buddhism, and at the time, activist Buddhist monks and civilians were at the forefront of opposition to a series of military juntas that had been ruling the nation, as well as prominently questioning the escalation of the Vietnam War.

During the rule of the Catholic Ngô Đình Diệm, the discrimination against the majority Buddhist population generated the growth of Buddhist institutions as they sought to participate in national politics and gain better treatment. In 1965, after a series of military coups that followed the fall of the Diệm regime in 1963, Air Marshal Nguyễn Cao Kỳ and General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu finally established a stable junta, holding the positions of Prime Minister and figurehead Chief of State respectively. The Kỳ-Thiệu regime was initially almost a feudal system, being more of an alliance of warlords than a state as each corps commander ruled his area as his own fiefdom, handing some of the taxes they collected over to the government in Saigon and keeping the rest for themselves. During that time, suspicion and tension continued between the Buddhist and Catholic factions in Vietnamese society. (Full article...)

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Image 1The painting depicts the retired emperor Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm.
Image 2Imperial City of Huế, recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty.
Image 3Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation during the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam.
Image 4The sunset over Hanoi, after a rain
Image 5A view of Mường Thanh Valley from Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam
Image 6View of Ho Chi Minh City from Bitexco Financial Tower, Vietnam
Image 7Making salt by evaporation of sea water near Ninh Hòa town, Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam
Image 8Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province.
Image 9The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at Sơn Trà District, Da Nang, Vietnam
Image 10Hanging fishing nets in the Cu Đê River, just before it merges with Da Nang Bay
Image 11The train station at Da Lat
Image 12Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
Image 13Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in Huế‎, Vietnam
Image 14Water puppetry, lit. "Making puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam.

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... that Radio Saigon Houston has been cited as a factor luring Vietnamese Americans to move from the West Coast to Texas?
... that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
... that U.S. federal judge Miranda Du came to the United States as a child after her family fled Vietnam?
... that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
... that wushu athlete Nguyễn Thúy Hiền was voted the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century?
... that copies of the underground anti-war publication Liberated Barracks were found on ships carrying US troops to Vietnam?

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The following are images from various Vietnam-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Handwritten Vietnamese (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 2Vovinam demonstration in France in 2014 (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 3Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, a historic Buddhist temple (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 419th-century manuscript of "Mysterious tales of the Southern Realm" (Vietnamese: Lĩnh Nam chích quái), a copy of 15th-century original tale. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 5Court attires of Nguyễn Dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 6Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Vietnam)
Image 7Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715-1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 8Mother Goddess (or Đạo Mẫu) (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 9Tet Vietnamese New Year Festivities in Chau Doc, Vietnam. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 10A lantern procession during Mid-Autumn Festival (Tết Trung thu) in Vietnam, which is also celebrated as "Children's Festival". (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 11Portrait of Nguyễn Quý Đức (1648-1720) wearing áo giao lĩnh (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 12Empress Nam Phương wearing áo nhật bình and khăn vành dây (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 13Decorations placed around a coffin at a home funeral in Da Nang (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 14Vietnamese calligraphy depicting people on a boat, the calligraphy says, "Thuyền nhân" (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 15Vietnamese phở, noodle soup with sliced rare beef and well done beef brisket (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 16Hán Nôm calligraphy in Vietnam (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 17Water puppet theatre in Hanoi (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 18A trio of Vietnamese musicians perform together. The man at centre plays a đàn nhị. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 19Typical Đông Hồ folk woodblock print of a carp (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 20A Kinh Vietnamese woman with blackened teeth due to chewing betel nut, a common practice in Vietnam (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 21In Chữ Quốc Ngữ, the word "tính" means "to ponder" or "figure out". (from Culture of Vietnam)

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6 May 2023 – 2023 Asia heat wave: Vietnam records its highest ever temperature of 44.2 °C (111.56 °F) in the Tương Dương district, Nghệ An province, while Laos records its highest ever temperature of 43.5 °C (110.3 °F) in Luang Prabang amid a heat wave. (The Guardian)
5 April 2023 –: Five people are killed when a helicopter crashes near Hạ Long Bay, Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. (Vietnam Plus)
2 March 2023 – 2023 Vietnamese presidential election: The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Võ Văn Thưởng as the country's new president, succeeding Nguyễn Xuân Phúc. (Nikkei Asia)
16 February 2023 –: A Da Nang court sentences four South Korean men to imprisonment for smuggling around 200 South Koreans into Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic when the country suspended the entry of all foreigners from 2020 to 2021. (AFP via Al Arabiya)
17 January 2023 –: Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigns as president of Vietnam, the second highest-ranked position in the country, citing responsibility for several recent scandals in the government. (VnExpress)

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