Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam ranks 87th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Montenegro, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. Memorable people born in present day Vietnam include Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Võ Nguyên Giáp. Memorable people who died in Vietnam include Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Robert Capa. Vietnam has been the birth place of many politicians, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and religious figures.

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 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. One of the two Marxist–Leninist states in Southeast Asia, 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. Read more on Wikipedia