Geography
FACTS ABOUT VIETNAM
Inland area: 331,211.6 sq km
Population (2007): over 85 millions people
Coastal line: 3,260 km
Borderline: 4,510km
Language: Vietnamese
Coordinates: Latitude 102008' -109028 east
Longitude 8002' - 23023' north
GEOGRAPHY
Lying on the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula, Viet Nam is a strip of land shaped like the letter "S". China borders it to the north, Laos and Cambodia to the west, the East Sea to the east and the Gulf of Thailand to the east and south.
The country's total length from north to south is 1,650km. Its width, stretching from east to west, is 600km at the widest point in the north, 400km in the south, and 50km at the narrowest part, in the centre, in Quang Binh Province. The coastline is 3,260km long and the inland border is 4,510km. Viet Nam is also a transport junction from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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