Vietnam

Vietnam ( ; , ), offeecially the Socialist Republic o Vietnam (, ), is the eastrenmaist kintra on the Indocheenae Peninsula in Sootheast Asie. It is bordered bi Fowkrepublic o Cheenae (FRC) tae the north, Laos tae the northwast, Cambodie tae the soothwast, an the Sooth Cheenae Sea, referred tae as East Sea (), tae the east. Wi a population o ower 86 million, Vietnam is the 13t maist populous kintra in the warld.

The fowk o Vietnam regained unthirldom an brak away frae Cheenae in AD 938 efter thair victory at the battle o Bạch Đằng River. Successive dynasties flourished alang wi geographic an poleetical expansion deeper intae Sootheast Asie, till it wis colonized bi the French in the mid-19t century. Efforts tae resist the French eventually led tae thair expulsion frae the kintra in the mid-20t century, leavin a naition dividit politically intae twa kintras. Fechtin atween the twa sides continued durin the Vietnam War, endin wi a North Vietnamese victory in 1975.

Emergin frae this prolonged military engagement, the war-ravaged naition wis politically isolatit. In 1986, the govrenment institutit economic an poleetical reforms an began a path towards internaitional reintegration. Bi 2000, it haed establisht diplomatic relations wi maist naitions. Its economic growthe haes been amang the hichest in the warld in the past decade.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3752682.stmThese efforts resultit in Vietnam joinin the World Trade Organization in 2007. Thir economic reforms an' a'  introduced inequality in mony spheres o life in Vietnam sic as income distribution an weemen's richts.http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-55397564.html http://www.jstor.org/pss/2761129http://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/2896.html

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Category:Single-pairty states
Category:Member states o the Unitit Naitions
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Category:Member states o the Association o Sootheast Asian Naitions
Category:Communist states
Category:Kintras borderin the Sooth Cheenae Sea
Category:States an territories established in 1976