Vietnam - a long historical country

Vietnam is a country with a four thousand year history. It lays in the eastern Indochina; it is an importan communication link between the India Ocean and the Pacific and a gate of South-East Asia.

Vietnam's national territory comprises a land mass 330,000 square km (127,380 square miles), a vast sea including a large continental shelf and a string of archipelagos stretching from the Tonking Gulf to the Gulf of Thailand.

Vietnam is a continuous land mass bordering China in the North, Laos and Cambodia in  the west, and the Pacific Ocean int he east and the south.

It is a S-shape land, with two large ends and a narrow middle. The distance between its northernmost and southernmost points is 1,650km as the crow flies and its width varies from 50km to 600km from east to west.

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, members of the great national community of Vietnam. All are the cultural beauty of Vietnam.