Asia
Vietnam
capital
the capital of Vietnam is Hanoi.
population of vietnam
the population of Vietnam in 2009 85,789,573 and it has increased it's population
climate
Vietnam is between 9 and 23 degrees celsius north.Eastern Vietnam has a long coastline of the gulf tonkin and the south china the country is dominated by south to southeasterly wind affecting the country
location
Vietnam is located in the southern tip of Asia next to Cambodia and Laos
Geography
Vietnam is shaped in a long s streching from 1000 miles from China in the North to the gulf of Thailand in the South.THe country area is slightly larger than Italy. It is narrow in the middle and only 31 miles wide.Vietnam is a country of tropical lowlands hills and densley forested highlands and land is covering now more than twenty percent of the area
Environmental issues
The issues mostly waste in Vietnam there is very little garbage disposal.The problem about solid waste is that its very hazardous.In Vietnam most people just throw their garbage
on the ground.All the waste caused severe forestation soil erosion lots of pollution of the coastal and marine environment.If this continues there will be an increase of diseases and birth defects
natural resources
Vietnam is rich in natural resources but mainly in coal mining located in the North. They also exploit metals and minerals iron ore , tin,copper and many more.However it is deficient in coking coal.Gold deposits are small. In 1987 the Vietnamese were exporting crude oil for first to Japan.Vietnam was dependent on the Soviet- supplied potroleum through the 1990s.Vietnams fisheries are modest they claim a million square kilometre of shore economic zone and an annual catch of 1.3 to 1.4 million tons of fish