Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east. With an estimated 90 million inhabitants, Vietnam is the world’s 13th-most-populous country.
Vietnam will show you sides of Asia that you’ve dreamed of. Lush rice fields at the bottom of stunningly gorgeous highlands, colourful water markets on the streams of the Mekong Delta and the endless bustling city life of Hanoi, where anything from school kids to fridges and huge piles of vegetables are transported on the back of countless motorcycles. Although Vietnam’s huge cities are rapidly transforming into modern Asian metropoles, traditional culture is never far away.
Few countries are blessed with landscapes as captivating as those of Vietnam. For many travellers, the country’s awe-inspiring limestone scenery, perfect beaches, islands, mountain ranges, rice fields and lakes are its greatest treasures. One of Vietnam’s top attractions, Ha Long Bay, boasts thousands of limestone pillars and islands topped with dense jungle vegetation.
The Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in 938. 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. Efforts to resist the French eventually led to their expulsion from the country in the mid-20th century, leaving Vietnam divided politically into two countries. Fighting between the two sides continued, with heavy foreign intervention, during the Vietnam War, which ended with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.
Emerging from this prolonged military engagement, the war-ravaged Communist nation was politically isolated. In 1986, the government instituted economic and political reforms and began a path towards international reintegration. Its economic growth has been among the highest in the world since 2000.
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