Vietnamese encyclopedias
Vietnamese encyclopedias are encyclopedias which are written in Vietnamese or are focused on Vietnam-related topics. In Vietnamese, "encyclopedia" are known as "Bách khoa toàn thư", literally meaning "complete book of a hundred subjects". The first work which was considered as an encyclopedia of Vietnam is an 18th-century book "Vân đài loại ngữ" by Lê Quý Đôn, a Lê Dynasty Confucian scholar. Since then, many encyclopedic works were published before the first modern and official encyclopedia was published in Vietnam. The topics of modern Vietnamese encyclopedias vary and span from scientific topics to children's topics. Following  the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are "Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam", a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Publications. Notable encyclopedic works and encyclopedias written in the Vietnamese language or focused on Vietnam-related topics include: Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.