Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Hanoi
- Region
- Asia, South-Eastern Asia
- Population
- 101,598,527 (2025)
- Area
- 329,560 km²
- Currency
- Vietnamese đồng (VND)
- Languages
- Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese, Khmer
- Calling code
- +84
- Internet domain
- .vn
- ISO codes
- VN, VNM, 704
- Time zone
- UTC+7:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- ###### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Vietnam covers about 329,560 square kilometres. By area it ranks 68th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Malaysia and a little larger than Norway. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: China, Cambodia, Laos. Its centre lies at about 16° north, 108° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 102 million people live in Vietnam (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 16th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 1.2 percent of the world's people. On average there are 308 people to each square kilometre. About 39 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 75 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Vietnamese, English, French, Chinese, Khmer. A person from Vietnam is called Vietnamese.
Money and economy
The currency is the Vietnamese đồng (code VND, symbol ₫). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 515 billion (2025), which is about US$ 5,066 for each person (2025).
Time
Vietnam uses one time zone, UTC+7:00 (Asia/Ho Chi Minh). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14,002,598 |
| Hanoi | 8,053,663 |
| Haiphong | 2,625,200 |
| Cần Thơ | 1,507,187 |
| Huế | 1,380,000 |
| Da Nang | 1,276,000 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South-Eastern Asia
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.