Vietnam
1964 AD - 1975 AD

Country in Southeast Asia located at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, that covers 311,699 square kilometres.

With a population of over 96 million, it is the world's fifteenth-most populous country. Vietnam borders

• China to the north,
• Laos and Cambodia to the west,
• Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand
• Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia through the South China Sea.

Its capital is Hanoi and its largest city is Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnam was inhabited as early as the Paleolithic age. The first known states during the first millennium BC centered on the Red River Delta, located in modern-day northern Vietnam.

The Han dynasty annexed and put 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. The Nguyễn—the last imperial dynasty—fell to French colonization in 1887.

Following the August Revolution, the nationalist Viet Minh under the leadership of communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh proclaimed independence from France in 1945.