Portal:Vietnam

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Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a population of over 102 million, it is the world's 16th-most populous country. One of two communist states in Southeast Asia, Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west; it lies along the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest and the South China Sea to the east, where it has shared and disputed maritime borders with other countries. Its capital is Hanoi, while its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City.

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, which were subsequently 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. During most of the 17th and 18th centuries, Vietnam was effectively divided into two domains, Đàng Trong and Đàng Ngoài. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. In 1887, its territory was integrated into French Indochina as three separate regions. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the communist-led Viet Minh coalition front launched the August Revolution and declared Vietnam's independence from the Empire of Japan in 1945.

Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reassert colonial control in the First Indochina War, but was defeated in 1954 amid the global Cold War. As a result of the accords signed between the Viet Minh and France, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War later broke out between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a communist state that self-designated as a 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 launched economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reforms, transforming the country to a socialist-oriented market economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into the global economy and politics. Vietnam is a developing country with an upper-middle–income economy. It has high levels of corruption, censorship, environmental issues, and a poor human rights record. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions, including the ASEAN, the APEC, 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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Cần Thơ (Vietnamese pronunciation: [kən˨˩ tʰɤ˧] ^ⓘ) is the third largest centrally-governed city in Vietnam and is in the Mekong Delta region. It is noted for its floating markets, Bánh tráng-making village, and rural canals. Cần Thơ has a population of around 4,199,824 as of 2024.

On June 12, 2025, the National Assembly passed Resolution No. 202/2025/QH15, which took effect the same day, merging Hậu Giang Province and Sóc Trăng Province into Cần Thơ municipality. Ninh Kiều, which has the Ninh Kiều port, is the former central district and the most populated of the former districts. (Full article...)

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Image 1Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc.
Image 2Water 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.
Image 3Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in Huế‎, Vietnam
Image 4Incense making in Quang Phu Cau village, on the outskirts of Hanoi.
Image 5View of Ho Chi Minh City from Bitexco Financial Tower, Vietnam
Image 6Hanging fishing nets in the Cu Đê River, just before it merges with Da Nang Bay
Image 7Imperial City of Huế, recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty.
Image 8Indochinese fulvetta, Ngoc Linh Nature Reserve, Kontum.
Image 9The train station at Da Lat
Image 10Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province.
Image 11A view of Mường Thanh Valley from Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam
Image 12Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation during the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam.
Image 13Making salt by evaporation of sea water near Ninh Hòa town, Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam
Image 14The sunset over Hanoi, after a rain
Image 15The 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 16The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at Sơn Trà District, Da Nang, Vietnam

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... that Charles Larson became one of the first Americans to teach African literature, after working in Nigeria for the Peace Corps to avoid the Vietnam draft?
... that Vietnamese gangster Eight-Finger Phước cut off two of his own fingers after his mother scolded him?
... that Trần Lập was involved in Vietnam's first internet copyright lawsuit?

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

Image 1Typical Đông Hồ folk woodblock print of a carp (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 2Portrait of Nguyễn Quý Đức (1648–1720) wearing áo giao lĩnh (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 3Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification (from Geography of Vietnam)
Image 4Traditionally, people wore white clothes along with white turbans during funerals. Vietnamese officials Hồ Đắc Trung, Tôn Thất Hân, Nguyễn Hữu Bài and Đoàn Đình Duyệt depicted during the funeral of emperor Khải Định. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 5Empress Nam Phương wearing áo nhật bình and khăn vành dây (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 6Ba tầm hat, a popular type of women's hat in northern Vietnam (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 719th-century manuscript of "Mysterious tales of the Southern Realm" (Lĩnh Nam chích quái), a copy of 15th-century original tale. (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 8Handwritten Vietnamese (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 9Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715–1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 10Vietnamese painting depicting a funeral during the Nguyễn dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 11Water puppet theatre in Hanoi (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 12Court attires of Nguyễn Dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 13Ceremonial procession of Thành hoàng, 19th century (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 14Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, a historic Buddhist temple (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 15Vietnamese statues depicting the traditional practice of teeth blackening (nhuộm răng đen) (from Culture of Vietnam)
Image 16A lantern procession during Tết Trung Thu in Vietnam, which is also celebrated as "Children's Festival". (from Culture of Vietnam)

Vietnam News

28 July 2026 –: Three more people are rescued from the Vietnamese cargo ship Khoi Nguyen 18 that sank on Saturday. Fourteen others remain missing with a multinational search still underway. (AFP via The Canadian Press) (South China Morning Post)
26 July 2026 –: Vietnamese cargo ship Khoi Nguyen 18 sinks in the South China Sea along the Vietnamese coast. Forty-five people are rescued while 17 more are still missing. (Reuters)
21 July 2026 –: In Vietnam, a fire on a bus travelling from Lâm Đồng province to Ho Chi Minh City kills seven passengers and injures five others. (Reuters)
18 July 2026 –: Five people are killed and two others are injured in a workplace accident in Thanh Hóa province, Vietnam. (Xinhua); Four people are killed, four more are missing, and seven others are injured after torrential rains and flash floods hit a mountainous village in Lai Châu province, Vietnam. (AA)

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Tagging and assessment

Tag the talk pages of all Vietnam-related articles that are not already tagged with {{WPVN}}.
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Expand and improve our Top-importance Vietnam articles, especially those that are rated Start-class or Stub-class.
Add references to Vietnam-related BLPs that lack them.
Improve the articles in our cleanup listing (some of these have been tagged since 2006).
Standardize and improve the articles on Vietnam's regions, provinces, districts and populated places (some are just one sentence).
Translate, create or expand articles listed under Requested articles.
Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Vietnam (474 as of October 2012).
Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Vietnam (461 as of October 2012).
Expand and improve the articles on all 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Update articles on former districts/urban districts, provincial cities, towns, villages, etc, as well as create/improve new articles on the new wards/communes.
Improve and update articles on the provinces of Vietnam.
Improve articles on the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam.
Determine and add etymologies of the district names for each district listed at Category:Districts of Vietnam.