VIETNAM
THE PLACE WERE YOU BELONG!
MAP OF VIETNAM
WHICH IS THE CAPITAL OF VIETNAM?
TOURISTIC PLACES OF HANOI
PEOPLE IN HANOI
Mỹ Đình National Stadium
HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
TET FESTIVAL
NEW YEARS DAY
Wandering Souls Day
15th day of the 7th lunar month.On this day the souls of the dead are believed to wander to the homes of their offspring. Celebrations take place in Buddhist temples, food is spread on house altars for the souls of the deceased and fake money is burnt in honour of them.
Mid Autumn Festival (or Moon Festival)
HOW IT IS CELEBRATED?
One of the most important Chinese festivals is the Mid-Autumn Festival which takes place when the moon is full. The Moon Festival is a holiday for family members to get together wherever it is possible. Often moon cake is served to celebrate the auspicious occasion.
BIRTHDAY OF CONFUCIUS
Places to visit when you get here!
Nha Trang
Cu Chi Tunnels
Mekong Delta
Mui Ne
Sa Pa Terraces
Phu Quoc
Hoi An
Hoan Kiem Lake (Hanoi)
Ha Long Bay
DID YOU KNOW SECTION?
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The official name of Vietnam is the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Two rivers in Vietnam, the Mekong in the south and the Red river in the north of the country reach the sea spread over huge swampy delta plains. The lands in these areas are very fertile, ideal for growing rice and other crops and home to the majority of the country's population.
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Vietnam shares a land border with CHINA to the north, Cambodia and Laos to the west.
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There are over 92 million people living in Vietnam (92,477,857) as of July 2013.
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The capital city of Vietnam is Hanoi, with an estimated population of just under 6.5 million it is the second largest city in Vietnam. The largest city is Ho Chi Minh City which had a population of just under 7.5 million in 2010.
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Vietnamese food is a blend of Chinese and Thai styles and is considered one of the healthiest cuisines in the world with its combination of fresh ingredients like fresh herbs, seafoods, fruits and vegetables along with fish sauce, shrimp paste, soy sauce and rice.
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Vietnam is the largest exporter of cashew nuts and black pepper in the world with one-third of the global production. The country is also the second largest exporter of rice behind THAILAND .
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From 1957 to 1975 saw war between North and South Vietnam. Countries including the United States, Russia, and China, became involved. The country was reunified under a communist regime. The 1990's saw economic progress as a free-market system and trade with the West began again.
VIETNAMESE FOOD
GOI CUON
VIETNAMESE CUISINE
BANH MI
LANDFORMS
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The Red River delta is fronted by hills that rise gently into the high mountains of the northwest; the Annam Highlands cover much of the central landscape, and in the southern areas, the coastal lowlands and Mekong River Delta merge.
A fertile and narrow coastal lowland extends south from the Red River Delta to the Mekong Delta.
LANGUAGE
PERCENTAGE OF VIETNAMESE WHO SPEAK IT!
CURRENCY
The Vietnamese dong has been the currency of Vietnam since May 3, 1978. Issued by the State Bank of Vietnam, it is represented by the symbol "₫". Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hào, which was further subdivided into 10 xu, neither of which is now used.
HISTORY OF THE DONG
North Vietnam
In 1946, the Viet Minh government (later to become the government of North Vietnam) introduced its own currency, the đồng, to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par. Two revaluations followed, in 1951 and 1958; the first was at a rate of 100:1, the second at a rate of 1000:1.
South Vietnam
Notes dually denominated in piastres and đồng were issued in 1953 for the State of Vietnam, which evolved into South Vietnam in 1954. On September 22, 1975, after the fall of Saigon, the currency in South Vietnam was changed to a "liberation đong" worth 500 old Southern đồng.
United Vietnam
After Vietnam was reunified, the đồng was also unified, on May 3, 1978. One new đồng equalled one Northern đồng or 0.8 Southern "liberation" đồng.
On September 14, 1985, the đồng was revalued, with the new đồng worth 10 old đồng. This started a cycle of chronic inflation that continued through much of the early 1990s.
COINS
THINGS TO DO!
VISIT THE HALONG BAY
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ENJOY THE FOOD!
GO TO MEKONG DELTA!
VISIT THE SAND DUNES!
VISIT REMMANTS MUSEUM!
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF VIETNAM.
Vietnam began a southward expansion that saw the annexation of territories formerly belonging to the Champa civilization (now Central Vietnam) and parts of the Khmer empire.
In the socialist era, the cultural life of Vietnam has been deeply influenced by government-controlled media and the cultural influences of socialist programs.
MARRIAGE
LITERATURE
Vietnamese literature includes two major components: folk literature and written literature. The two forms developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated.
Vietnamese folk literature came into being very early and had a profound effect on the spiritual life of the Viet. The folk literature contributed to the formation of Vietnam's national identity with praising beauty, humanism, and the love of goodness. Legends, fairy tales, humorous stories, folk songs, epic poems have a tremendous vitality and have lived on until today.
MUSIC
CLOTHING
In feudal Vietnam, clothing was one of the most important marks of social status and strict dress codes were enforced.
Prior to the Nguyễn dynasty, people not of noble birth could dress quite liberally with only few restrictions on styles. For example, wearing yellow color in the Lý dynasty was tolerable since the Imperial clan wore red and white color. However things changed at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty. Commoners now had a limited choice of similarly plain and simple clothes for every day use, as well as being limited in the colors they were allowed to use.