vietnam

Vietnam, official name: Republic of Socialist Vietnam, the old name: the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (named in 1945 to 1976), is a country located in the eastern peninsula of Indochina, under southeast Asia. Vietnam has a northern border with China, to the west with Laos and Cambodia, to the southwest bordering the Gulf of Thailand, east and south China Sea and has more than 4,000 islands, large and small reefs, near and offshore, with internal waters, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam Government identified nearly three times the land area (over 1 million square kilometers). On the East Coast there Spratlys and Paracels are claimed by Vietnam but still being claimed by other countries such as Taiwan, China, Malaysia and the Philippines.

After North Vietnam in the North and the National Front for Liberation of South Vietnam victory over Republic of Vietnam in the South April 30, 1975, North-South were unified. July 2, 1976 of Vietnam National brand is placed Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

In 1986, Vietnam conducted a number of economic reforms (known as Innovation), opening up Vietnam's economy integrate into the world. Vietnam has established diplomatic relations with 178 countries, economic relations - trade - investment with over 224 countries and territories, is a member of the United Nations, ASEAN, ASEM, APEC, WTO, International Francophone Organization, Movement for nothing Links and many international organizations, other areas.. Since 2000 Vietnam is one of countries with the fastest economic growth in the world, and according to Citigroup, a high growth rate This will continue to grow. According to the BBC, in 2004, Vietnam ranked 11th in the fastest growing economies in the world. However, the growth rate slowed in some years later, in 2013 growth of 5.42% , ranked No. 6 in the 11 countries in Southeast Asia. The successful economic reforms have led the way for Vietnam to become a member of the World Trade Organization in 2007.

However, Vietnam still faced many problems such as high inflation, inequality of income, health care and the poor state of gender inequality still many