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agricultural land:34.8%(2011 est.)arable land:20.6%(2011 est.) / permanent crops:12.1%(2011 est.) / permanent pasture:2.1%(2011 est.)forest:45%(2011 est.)other:20.2%(2011 est.)

Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, as well as China, Laos, and Cambodia

5.90

Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)

73.90

8.145 million Ho Chi Minh City, 1.444 million Da Nang, 1.219 million Hai Phong, 1.175 million Can Tho, 1.075 million Haiphong, 1.064 million HANOI (capital) (2018)

-0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2018 est.)

though it has one of the highest population densities in the world, the population is not evenly dispersed; clustering is heaviest along the South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin, with the Mekong Delta (in the south) and the Red River Valley (in the north) having the largest concentrations of people

rate of urbanization: 2.98% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

5.70

6.80

29.00

$648,700,000,000

8.00

7.3

$6,900

54,800,000

2.20

54,800,000

58.50

58.50

3.50

3.50

4.25

4.25

$214,100,000,000

$214,100,000,000

US 20.1%, China 14.5%, Japan 8%, South Korea 6.8% (2017)

$202,600,000,000

$202,600,000,000

China 25.8%, South Korea 20.5%, Japan 7.8%, Thailand 4.9% (2017)

$129,500,000,000

$19,750,000,000

$129,500,000,000

158,200,000,000

143,200,000,000

713,000,000

2,733,000,000

271,400

324,600

2015 est.

8,098,000,000

2017 est.

2017 est.

4,526,077

120,016,181

49,741,000

11,269,936

45

2,600

195,468

47,130

45

324,600

143,200,000,000

713,000,000

2,733,000,000

158,200,000,000

49,741,000

0

195,468

120,016,181

47,130

southeast Asian states have enhanced border surveillance to check the spread of Asian swine fever; Cambodia and Laos protest Vietnamese squatters and armed encroachments along border; Cambodia accuses Vietnam of a wide variety of illicit cross-border activities; progress on a joint development area with Cambodia is hampered by an unresolved dispute over sovereignty of offshore islands; an estimated 300,000 Vietnamese refugees reside in China; establishment of a maritime boundary with Cambodia is hampered by unresolved dispute over the sovereignty of offshore islands; the decade-long demarcation of the China-Vietnam land boundary was completed in 2009; China occupies the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; Brunei claims a maritime boundary extending beyond as far as a median with Vietnam, thus asserting an implicit claim to Lousia Reef; the 2002 "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea" eased tensions but differences between the parties negotiating the Code of Conduct continue; Vietnam continues to expand construction of facilities in the Spratly Islands; in March 2005, the national oil companies of China, the Philippines, and Vietnam signed a joint accord to conduct marine seismic activities in the Spratly Islands; Economic Exclusion Zone negotiations with Indonesia are ongoing, and the two countries in Fall 2011 agreed to work together to reduce illegal fishing along their maritime boundary; in May 2018, Russia’s RosneftVietnam unit started drilling at a block southeast of Vietnam which is within the area outlined by China’s nine-dash line and Beijing issued a warning