Introduction

Vietnam is not only this country at one time torn and bombarded that several successive wars returned sadly celebrates: it in addition has a single and rich civilization, spectacular landscapes and natural sites, and people particularly cultivated and hospital. The insulation in which it was after the reunification of 1975 made place with the opening, and it lives from now on in peace. Still relatively little attended in spite of its richnesses, this country with the two deltas, the scintillating rice plantations, the charm and the beauty legendary releases a perfume of authenticity: the occasion or never to leave to its discovery

Destination

Official heading of the country: socialist republic of Vietnam

Capital: Hanoi Surface: 331 690 km²

Population: 84,2 million inhabitants

People and ethnos groups: Vietnameses (84%), Chinese (2%), Khmers, Cham and an about sixty groups ethnolinguistic

Languages: Vietnamese, Chinese, dialects of the mountain ethnos groups

Religions: Confucianism, taoism, Buddhism, Christianity

Political institutions: Communist, single party (Vietnamese Communist Party, PCV)

President: Nguyen Minh Triet 

Prime Minister: Nguyen Tan Dung

Economy

GDP: 210,9 billion $US

PIB/Hab: 2 570 $US

Annual Growth: 7,7%

Inflation: 7,7%

Principal activities: Agriculture (rice, fishing), oil, coal, industry (electricity, steel-works), tourism.

Principal partners: Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Germany and France.