Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Reunification Palace
Museum of Ho Chi Minh City
War Remnants Museum
Nha Trang
Cham towers (7th and 12th Century Towers)
BEACHES!!
Halong Bay
Thien Cung Caves
Hang Dau Go (Cave)
Cat Ba Island
Hanoi
Old Quarter
Hoan Kiem Lake
One Pillar Pagoda (temple)
Van Mieu (temple)
Western Central Highlands
Dien Bien Phu
Mekong Delta
Country Demographics/ Statistics
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Area: 329,566 sq km
Population: 84.4 million
Capital city: Hanoi (pop 3.5 million)
People: Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups.
Language: Vietnamese (official), English, French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages.
Religion: Buddhist, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), indigenous beliefs, Muslim
Government: Communist People's Republic
President: Nguyen Minh TRIET
Major industries: Rice, rubber, textiles food processing, sugar, chemicals
Major trading partners: China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Currency: dong
Time: GMT/UTC +7
