Portal:Vietnam

Welcome to the Vietnam portal / Chào mừng bạn đến với Cổng thông tin Việt Nam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City (commonly known as Saigon). Vietnam was inhabited by the Paleolithic age, with states established in the first millennium BC on the Red River Delta in modern-day northern Vietnam. The Han dynasty annexed Northern and Central Vietnam under Chinese rule from 111 BC, until the first dynasty emerged in 939. Successive monarchical dynasties absorbed Chinese influences through Confucianism and Buddhism, and expanded southward to the Mekong Delta, conquering Champa. During most of the 17th and 18th centuries, Vietnam was effectively divided into two domains of Đàng Trong and Đàng Ngoài. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—surrendered to France in 1883. In 1887, its territory was integrated into French Indochina as three separate regions. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the nationalist coalition Viet Minh, led by the communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, launched the August Revolution and declared Vietnam's independence in 1945. Vietnam went through prolonged warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious in 1954. As a result of the treaties signed between the Viet Minh and France, Vietnam was also separated into two parts. The Vietnam War began shortly after, between the communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and the anti-communist South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Upon the North Vietnamese victory in 1975, Vietnam reunified as a unitary socialist state under the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in 1976. An ineffective planned economy, a trade embargo by the West, and wars with Cambodia and China crippled the country further. In 1986, the CPV initiated economic and political reforms similar to the Chinese economic reform, transforming the country to a socialist-oriented market economy. The reforms facilitated Vietnamese reintegration into the global economy and politics. Vietnam is a developing country with a lower-middle-income economy. It has high levels of corruption, censorship, environmental issues and a poor human rights record; the country ranks among the lowest in international measurements of civil liberties, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion and ethnic minorities. It is part of international and intergovernmental institutions including the ASEAN, the APEC, the CPTPP, the Non-Aligned Movement, the OIF, and the WTO. It has assumed a seat on the United Nations Security Council twice. (Full article...) Selected article - Thơ in 1958 Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (chữ Hán: 阮玉書 26 May 1908 – 12 June 1976) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the first vice president of South Vietnam, serving under President Ngô Đình Diệm from 1956 until Diệm's overthrow and assassination in 1963. He also served as the first prime minister of South Vietnam, serving from November 1963 to late January 1964. Thơ was appointed to head a civilian cabinet by the military junta of General Dương Văn Minh, which came to power after overthrowing and assassinating Diệm, the nation's first president. Thơ's rule was marked by a period of confusion and weak government, as the Military Revolutionary Council (MRC) and the civilian cabinet vied for power. Thơ lost his job and retired from politics when Minh's junta was deposed in a January 1964 coup by General Nguyễn Khánh. The son of a wealthy Mekong Delta landowner, Thơ rose through the ranks as a low-profile provincial chief under French colonial rule, and he was briefly imprisoned by Imperial Japan when they invaded and deposed the French during World War II. During this time he met Minh for the first time as they shared a cell. Following World War II, he became the interior minister in the French-backed State of Vietnam, an associated state in the French Union. After the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam in 1955 following the partition in 1954, Thơ was sent to Japan as ambassador and secured war reparations. Recalled to Vietnam within a year, he helped to dismantle the private armies of the Hòa Hảo religious sect in the mid-1950s. Thơ led the political efforts to weaken the Hòa Hảo leadership. While Minh led the military effort, Thơ tried to buy off Hòa Hảo leaders. One commander, Ba Cụt, was personally hostile to Thơ, whose father had confiscated the land of Ba Cụt's family decades earlier. The stand-off could not be ended peacefully in this case, and Ba Cụt was captured and executed. (Full article...) List of selected articles Battle of Dien Bien Phu Double Seven Day scuffle Ho Chi Minh trail Vietnam War Ba Cụt Lê Văn Duyệt Huế chemical attacks Thích Quảng Đức Operation Passage to Freedom Tet Offensive Lê Quang Tung Prime Minister of Vietnam Mekong Delta Cần Thơ Viet Cong Ho Chi Minh City Fall of Saigon Vietnamese cuisine Krulak–Mendenhall mission Hanoi Battle of Kham Duc Lê Duẩn North Vietnam People's Army of Vietnam Vietnam Airlines Typhoon Dan (1989) Commercial Import Program Hạ Long Bay Battle of Lang Vei Malaysia–Vietnam relations Ho Chi Minh Đổi Mới Operation Ranch Hand Noi Bai International Airport Mỹ Tho Battle of Ban Me Thuot Vinh Communist Party of Vietnam Haiphong Operation Shed Light Tan Son Nhat International Airport Spratly Islands Nguyễn Hữu Có North–South railway (Vietnam) Trần dynasty Lady Triệu Vietnamese boat people Degar Áo dài Vietnam and the World Bank National Museum of Vietnamese History September 2009 Vietnam tropical depression Thuy Trang Hue–Da Nang Campaign 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam Politics of Vietnam 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam Cambodian–Vietnamese War Typhoon Xangsane South Vietnam Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem December 1964 South Vietnamese coup 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing Phan Xích Long Phạm Ngọc Thảo Tôn Thất Đính Xá Lợi Pagoda raids General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam List of Vietnamese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War South Central Coast Buddhist Uprising The Rockpile Lê Trọng Tấn Buddhist crisis Vietnam Women's Union Rail transport in Vietnam War in Vietnam (1954–1959) Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Nguyễn Chánh Thi Quảng Bình province Selected picture Making salt by evaporation of sea water near Ninh Hòa town, Khánh Hòa Province Vietnam Wooden doors in the Imperial palace in Huế‎, Vietnam Dong Ho painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province. Hồ Chí Minh attended French Communist Congress in Marseilles in 1921 under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc. The train station at Da Lat Hanging fishing nets in the Cu Đê River, just before it merges with Da Nang Bay The painting depicts the retired emperor Trần Nhân Tông who has now become a monk and returned to Hanoi from his hermitage in Vũ Lâm. A view of Mường Thanh Valley from Dien Bien Phu city, Vietnam Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation during the Buddhist crisis in Vietnam. Imperial City of Huế, recognized as a UNESCO Heritage site in 1993, was the former capital of Vietnam under the Nguyễn dynasty. Water puppetry, lit. "Making puppets dance on water") is a tradition that dates back as far as the 11th century when it originated in the villages of the Red River Delta area of northern Vietnam. The gate to Linh Ung Pagoda at Sơn Trà District, Da Nang, Vietnam The sunset over Hanoi, after a rain View of Ho Chi Minh City from Bitexco Financial Tower, Vietnam Did you know - Newer entries ... that Lài dogs were instrumental in the Vietnamese Lam Sơn uprising against Ming China in 1418–1428? ... that United States Air Force colonel Virgil K. Meroney flew two combat missions with his son before his son was killed in action in March 1969, during the Vietnam War? ... that a U.S. soldier who killed a Vietnamese woman after raping her was dubbed a "double veteran"? ... that Trần Lập was involved in Vietnam's first internet copyright lawsuit? ... that Nothgottes, a pilgrimage destination in the Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of Cistercians from Vietnam? ... that war correspondent Jurate Kazickas financed her plane ticket to Vietnam in 1967 with a US$500 win on the game show Password? General images - The following are images from various Vietnam-related articles on Wikipedia. A trio of Vietnamese musicians performing together. The man on the far left plays kèn đám ma, the man in the middle plays the đàn nhị and the man on the right plays the trống chầu. (from Culture of Vietnam) Vietnamese statues depicting the traditional practice of teeth blackening (nhuộm răng đen) (from Culture of Vietnam) Empress Nam Phương wearing áo nhật bình and khăn vành dây (from Culture of Vietnam) Vietnamese painting depicting a funeral during the Nguyễn dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam) Vietnamese calligraphy depicting people on a boat, the calligraphy says, "Thuyền nhân" (from Culture of Vietnam) 19th-century manuscript of "Mysterious tales of the Southern Realm" (Lĩnh Nam chích quái), a copy of 15th-century original tale. (from Culture of Vietnam) Court attires of Nguyễn Dynasty (from Culture of Vietnam) Water puppet theatre in Hanoi (from Culture of Vietnam) Typical Đông Hồ folk woodblock print of a carp (from Culture of Vietnam) Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, a historic Buddhist temple (from Culture of Vietnam) Vietnamese New Year in Châu Đốc, Vietnam. (from Culture of Vietnam) Ceremonial procession of Thành hoàng, 19th century (from Culture of Vietnam) Silk painting of Trịnh Đình Kiên (1715-1786) in the 18th century, exhibited in Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts (from Culture of Vietnam) Portrait of Nguyễn Quý Đức (1648-1720) wearing áo giao lĩnh (from Culture of Vietnam) Ba tầm hat, a popular type of women's hat in northern Vietnam (from Culture of Vietnam) A lantern procession during Tết Trung Thu in Vietnam, which is also celebrated as "Children's Festival". (from Culture of Vietnam) Handwritten Vietnamese (from Culture of Vietnam) A Kinh Vietnamese woman with blackened teeth. (from Culture of Vietnam) Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification zones (from Geography of Vietnam) Vietnam News Wikinews Vietnam portal 24 May 2024 – Fourteen people are killed and three others are injured in a building fire in a densely populated area of Hanoi, Vietnam. (VnExpress) (Reuters) 22 May 2024 – 2024 Vietnamese presidential election Security Minister Tô Lâm is elected President by the National Assembly, two months after the resignation of Võ Văn Thưởng amid the ruling Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign. (DW) 18 May 2024 – The Communist Party of Vietnam nominates Minister of Public Security Tô Lâm as the next President after Võ Văn Thưởng resigned as President in March due to the party's anti-corruption campaign. (Al Jazeera) 16 May 2024 – Permanent Member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee's Secretariat Trương Thị Mai resigns after just over a year in office amid the Communist Party's anti-corruption campaign. (Xinhua) 12 May 2024 – The Marywilska 44 shopping mall in Białołęka district, Warsaw, Poland, is destroyed in a suspected arson attack. Many of the venues were Vietnamese-owned. (The Times of India) (Puls Biznesu) 26 April 2024 – Vương Đình Huệ, the Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, resigns following a sweeping anti-corruption probe. (AP) Categories Category puzzle Select [►] to view subcategories Vietnam Vietnam-related lists Buildings and structures in Vietnam Culture of Vietnam Economy of Vietnam Education in Vietnam Environment of Vietnam Ethnic groups in Vietnam Geography of Vietnam Government of Vietnam Health in Vietnam History of Vietnam Organizations based in Vietnam Vietnamese people Politics of Vietnam Society of Vietnam Images of Vietnam Vietnam stubs WikiProject Vietnam WikiProject Countries WikiProject Southeast Asia WikiProject Vietnam Wikipedias in Vietnamese languages Topics Recognized content Featured articles 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines 1955 State of Vietnam referendum 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm Ba Cụt Operation Camargue Wesley Clark December 1964 South Vietnamese coup Battle of Điện Biên Phủ Double Seven Day scuffle Thích Quảng Đức Durian Gerald Ford Thomas J. Hudner Jr. Huế chemical attacks Javan rhinoceros Krulak–Mendenhall mission Lê Quang Tung Early life and military career of John McCain John McCain McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II USS New Jersey (BB-62) Ngô Đình Cẩn Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem Ngô Đình Diệm presidential visit to Australia Nguyễn Chánh Thi Operation Passage to Freedom Phạm Ngọc Thảo Phan Đình Phùng Phan Xích Long September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace bombing Tang dynasty Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ Tôn Thất Đính Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng Xá Lợi Pagoda raids Featured lists List of Asian Pacific American Medal of Honor recipients Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam List of Vietnamese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War List of World Heritage Sites in Vietnam Good articles 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam 10th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam 15th Sustainment Brigade 18th Engineer Brigade (United States) 20th Engineer Brigade (United States) 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team Action of 23 August 1967 Agent Orange American Gangster (film) Typhoon Angela (1989) Áo dài Attack on Camp Holloway Attack on USNS Card Peter Badcoe Battle of Ap Bac Battle of Ban Me Thuot Battle of Binh Gia Battle of Coral–Balmoral Battle of Đồng Xoài Battle of Gang Toi Battle of Kham Duc Battle of Lang Vei Battle of Lima Site 85 Battle of Loc Ninh Battle of Long Khánh Battle of Muong Khoua Battle of Ong Thanh Battle of Suoi Bong Trang Battle of Suoi Chau Pha Battle of Xuân Lộc Birdy (film) Bombing of Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base Born on the Fourth of July (film) Cambodian Civil War Cambodian–Vietnamese War Cambodian campaign Coast Guard Squadron One George Thomas Coker Commercial Import Program Typhoon Dan (1989) Typhoon Dot (1985) Typhoon Elsie (1989) Jane Fonda Hue–Da Nang Campaign Huế Phật Đản shootings I Ching The Inbetweeners 2 George McTurnan Kahin Khmer language Lê Duẩn Lê Văn Duyệt Tropical Storm Linda (1997) Malaysia–Vietnam relations National Museum of Vietnamese History Ngô Đình Diệm presidential visit to the United States Nguyễn Văn Nhung Operation Bribie Operation Coburg Operation Crimp Operation Eagle Pull Operation Frequent Wind Operation Shed Light Patrol Air Cushion Vehicle Politics of Vietnam Prime Minister of Vietnam Pygmy slow loris Leslie H. Sabo Jr. Sarus crane Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. September 2009 Vietnam tropical depression State visit by Ngô Đình Diệm to the United States Tropical Storm Soudelor (2009) Southward expansion of the Han dynasty Tạ Phong Tần Tết Offensive Tịnh Xá Trung Tâm Typhoon Typhoon Wayne (1986) Typhoon Xangsane Humbert Roque Versace Vietnam Airlines Vietnam and the World Bank Vietnamese Cambodians Things you can do In rough order of importance, by type of task. Tagging and assessment Tag the talk pages of all Vietnam-related articles that are not already tagged with {{WPVN}}. Assess all of our unknown-quality and unknown-importance articles. Article improvement Expand and improve our Top-importance Vietnam articles, especially those that are rated Start-class or Stub-class. Add references to Vietnam-related BLPs that lack them. Improve the articles in our cleanup listing (some of these have been tagged since 2006). Standardize and improve the articles on Vietnam's regions, provinces, districts and populated places (some are just one sentence). Translate, create or expand articles listed under Requested articles. Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Vietnam (474 as of October 2012). Take care of requests at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Vietnam (461 as of October 2012). Expand and improve the articles on all 54 officially recognized ethnic groups in Vietnam. Determine and add etymologies of the district names for each district listed at Category:Districts of Vietnam. Policy and guidelines Further develop our style guidelines. Regular maintenance Maintain the Vietnam portal: pick featured articles and featured pictures, update monthly DYK list, etc. Maintain WikiProject Vietnam and related pages (including our task list!) Verify the status of Vietnam-related articles up for deletion. 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