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Facts and figures
| Full name | Socialist Republic of Vietnam | | Area | 329,566 sq km (128,527 sq mi) | | Population | 81 million | | Capital city | Hanoi (pop 1 million) | | People | 85% ethnic Vietnamese, 3% ethnic Chinese, also Khmers, Chams (a remnant of the once-great Indianised Champa Kingdom) and members of some 60 ethnolinguistic groups (also known as Montagnards, 'highlanders' in French) | | Languages | Vietnamese, Russian, French, Chinese, English and a variety of Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian local dialects | | Government | Communist People's Republic | | Major products and industries | Rice, rubber, food processing, textiles, chemicals | | Major trading partners | China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan |
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