# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000052848
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-212686
**Filing Date:** 2025-9
**Character Count:** 3947
**Document Hash:** 45495ec9d539aa16cb49c1cb7ce3b722
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## Filing Summary
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**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-212686

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: CORRESP

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 3

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250923

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** VANGUARD WORLD FUND
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000052848

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 046035483
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0831

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** CORRESP

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** PO BOX 2600
- **STREET 2:** V26
- **CITY:** VALLEY FORGE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19482
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6106691000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** PO BOX 2600
- **STREET 2:** V26
- **CITY:** VALLEY FORGE
- **STATE:** PA
- **ZIP:** 19482

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VANGUARD WORLD FUNDS
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20020402

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** VANGUARD WORLD FUND INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19920703

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** IVEST FUND INC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 19850923

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P.O. Box 2600

Valley Forge, PA 19482

jane_hongshissler@vanguard.com

**via electronic filing**

September 23, 2025

Lisa N. Larkin, Esq.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, DC 20549

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| **Re:** | **Vanguard World Fund (the "Trust")** |
|  | **File No. 2-17620** |
|  | **Post-Effective Amendment No. 175** |

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Dear Ms. Larkin,

This letter responds to your comments provided on July 7, 2025, to the above referenced post-effective amendment that was filed with the Commission on May 30, 2025. In this letter, Vanguard Emerging Markets ex-China ETF, a new series of the Trust, will be referred to as the "Fund."

**<u>Vanguard Emerging Markets Ex-China ETF</u>**

**Comment 1: More on the Fund and ETF Shares – Security Selection**

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| Comment: | In the section describing the Fund's index, please add disclosure regarding the |
|  | rebalance and reconstitution process of the index. |
| Response: | The disclosure has been revised accordingly. |
| **Comment 2:** | **More on the Fund and ETF Shares – Security Selection** |
| Comment: | Please consider adding disclosure on the potential significance of the impact on |
|  | the Fund's performance as a result of emerging markets exposure. |
| Response: | The disclosure has been revised accordingly. |
| **Comment 3:** | **More on the Fund and ETF Shares – Security Selection** |
| Comment: | Please consider adding disclosure stating that the rights and remedies associated |
|  | with investments in a fund that tracks an index comprised of foreign securities may |
|  | be different than a fund that tracks an index comprised of domestic securities. |
| Response: | The disclosure has been revised accordingly. |
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P.O. Box 2600

Valley Forge, PA 19482

jane_hongshissler@vanguard.com

Please do not hesitate to contact me at jane_hongshissler@vanguard.com with any questions or comments regarding the above responses.

Sincerely,

/s/ Jane Hong Shissler

Jane Hong Shissler

Associate General Counsel

The Vanguard Group, Inc.