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Vietnam – or Viet Nam (Listeni/ˌviːɛtˈnɑːm/ vee-et-nahm; Vietnamese: Việt Nam, About this sound listen), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam, About this sound listen) – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest.
Vietnam is divided into 63 provinces.. There are also five centrally-controlled municipalities, which are administratively on the same level as provinces: Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, Can Tho; Ha Noi is capital.
