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Vietnam
(, ; ), officially the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
(
SRV
;
), is the easternmost country on the
Indochina Peninsula
in
Southeast Asia
. With an estimated 90.5 million inhabitants as of 2014, it is the world's
13th-most-populous country
, and the
eighth-most-populous Asian country
.
The name Vietnam
translates as "Southern Viet" (synonymous with the much older term
Nam Viet
); it was first officially adopted in 1802 by Emperor
Gia Long
, and was adopted again in 1945 with the founding of the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
under
Ho Chi Minh
. The country is bordered by China to the north,
Laos
to the northwest,
Cambodia
to the southwest, and
Malaysia
across the
South China Sea
to the southeast. Its capital city has been
Hanoi
since the reunification of
North
and
South Vietnam
in 1975.
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Vietnam News Agency
The
Vietnam News Agency
(VNA), a governmental agency, is the official state news provider of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
.
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