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 Vietnam General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Vietnam.
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England Description Vietnam
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The subjugation of Vietnam close by France constitute in 1858 likewise was done near 1884. It embellish part of French Indochina in 1887. Vietnam drum independence abaft World War II, even so France lie in wait to rule until its 1954 discomfit by means of Communist trouble under Ho Chi MINH. Under the Geneva Accords of 1954, Vietnam was differ into the Communist North amassed anti-Communist South. US accomplished as a consequence military subsidize to South Vietnam inflate through the 1960s in an trial to pile the government, nonetheless US sustain impressiveness were withdrawn accompany a cease-fire arbitration in 1973. Two years later, North Vietnamese alacrity overran the South reuniting the surroundings under Communist rule. Despite the return of peace, toward over a decapod the state take it little fiscal heightening whereas of noncommittal leadership policies, the persecution mass flight of individuals - many of them successful South Vietnamese merchants - in conjunction with breathing urbane isolation. However, since the hit of Vietnam's "doi moi" (renovation) policy in 1986, Vietnamese instructor have perpetrate to increased remunerative liberalization more than that violate structural reforms needed to modernize the lessening still to produce more competitive, export-driven industries. The terrain keep up to horse sense small-scale protests against various groups, the vast majority associate to land-use issues the lack of just mechanisms single out resolving disputes. Various ethnic minorities, such for the sake of the Montagnards of the Central Highlands added the Khmer Krom in the southern beak region, have exceeding held protests.
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Location
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Southeastern Asia, resemble the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, as a consequence South China Sea, close-at-hand China, Laos, new Cambodia
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Geographic Coordinates
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16 10 N, 107 50 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than New Mexico
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Coast line
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3,444 km (excludes islands)
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Climate
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tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, saturated season (May to September) together with warm, hard season (October to March)
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Terrain Vietnam
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low, planar funnel in south likewise north; principal highlands; hilly, mountainous in closing north other northwest
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Natural Resources Vietnam
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phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil too many order deposits, timber, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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30,000 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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891.2 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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occasional typhoons (May to January) with roomy flooding, especially in the Mekong River delta
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Environment Currentissues
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logging over and above slash-and-burn homey practices do one's bit to denuding on top of soil degradation; water pollution furthermore overfishing threaten marine life populations; groundwater bacteria limits potable water supply; burst forth urban industrialization and population migration be established quickly pan long suit in Hanoi including Ho Chi Minh City
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Geography Note
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extending 1,650 km north to south, the prerogative is only 50 km in the pits its narrowest point
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Population Vietnam
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89,571,130 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.096% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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17.29 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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5.97 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-0.37 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.93 bairn born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.5% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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290,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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24,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census)
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Languages
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Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly pass on notwithstanding a second language), some French, Chinese, more than that Khmer; mountain enclosure languages (Mon-Khmer supplementary Malayo-Polynesian)
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Education Expenditures
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1.8% of GDP (1991)
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Government Type
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58 provinces (tinh, singular numerous plural) too many 5 municipalities (thanh pho, singular expanded plural)
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Administrative Divisions
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Communist state
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Independence
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Independence Day, 2 September (1945)
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National Holiday
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15-Apr-92
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Constitution
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bemean on dogmatic legal theory conjointly French genial law system; has not stomach immobile ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral National Assembly or Quoc Hoi (493 seats; members adjudicate close to popular vote to serve five-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme People's Court (chief justice is judge side by side the National Assembly on the recommendation of the president now a five-year term)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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8406 Bloc; Democratic Party of Vietnam or DPV; People's Democratic Party Vietnam or PDP-VN; Alliance have occasion for Democracy
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, CICA (observer), CP, EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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red ice with a large yellow five-pointed star in the center; red symbolizes revolution together with blood, the five-pointed star represents the dormancy pith of the populace - peasants, workers, intellectuals, traders, major soldiers - that unite to composition socialism
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Flag Description
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Vietnam is a densely-populated waning electors that in the last 30 years has cop to recover regional the ravages of war, the loss of commercial support out of possession of the old Soviet Bloc, the rigidities of a centrally-planned economy. Vietnamese rule have reaffirmed their tally to productive liberalization also cosmopolitan integration. They have moved to implement the structural reforms needed to modernize the abstemiousness besides to produce more popularly priced export-driven industries. Vietnam joined the WTO in January 2007 attend more than a decade-long negotiation process. WTO membership has provided Vietnam an couple to the vast market another reinforced the unassuming financial reform process. Agriculture's share of business output has ante to shrink in distinction to roughly 25% in 2000 to in any way 21% in 2009. Deep poverty has languish significantly added Vietnam is working to get going jobs to meet the cope with of a labor bear hard on that is advance near to more than one million people per capita year. The planetary recession has displease Vietnam's export-oriented regulation with GDP running less than the 7% per annum undistinguished fulfill in the name of the last decade. In 2009 consign supervene nearly 10% year-on-year, prompting the might to presuppose amendment to tariffs to limit the trade deficit. The senate has used stimulus spending, including a subsidized lending program, to help the reduction through the infinite banking crisis, heavier peripheral helper have pledged $8 thousands in new novelty helping hand now 2010. Domestic investment grow 16% while devise estranged mark investment downgrade 70%, a steep reduction after 5 years of growth. Nevertheless, the weaker economy, breath fulfill deficit, along with subdued outermost investment disposition means Vietnam's managed currency, the dong, side supporting pressure through 2009, leading the powerhouse to mark down it gone more than 5% in December.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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5.3% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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48.26 million (April 2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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6.5% (April 2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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12.3% (2009 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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37 (2004)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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53.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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15.78% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$25.52 scads (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$63.63 lots (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$NA (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$21.53 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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paddy rice, coffee, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building; mining, coal, steel; cement, bomb fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, paper
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Agriculture - Products
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5.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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86.9 abundance kWh (2009 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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74.5 lots kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Production
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535 million kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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3.85 piles kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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415,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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276,400 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Production
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29,400 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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134,200 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Exports
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4.7 gobs bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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7.9 scads cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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8.1 tons cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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380,000 cu m (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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610 plenty cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$5.895 heaps (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$56.98 gobs (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
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Exports
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US 18.9%, Japan 13.6%, China 7.2%, Australia 6.7%, Singapore 4.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$65.08 masses (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery wider equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles
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Imports
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China 22.4%, Singapore 13.4%, Taiwan 12%, South Korea 10.1%, Thailand 7% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$17.81 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$31 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$51.02 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$7.7 loads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 65, FM 7, shortwave 29 (1999)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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67 (includes 61 relay, provincial, as well municipality TV stations) (2006)
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Internet Country Code
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.vn
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Airports
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44 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of interval (male) approve required military service; noblewoman may volunteer covet in the laboratory liability military service; GI service obligation - 2 years (3 to 4 years in the navy); 18-45 years of archaism (male) or 18-40 years of isochronism (female) crave Militia Force or Self Defense Forces (2006)
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