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Vietnam

Vietnam is located in South Asia which is adjacent to China in the North. With a total area of three hundred twenty-nine thousand, five hundred sixty square kilometers. With the water being four thousand, two hundred square kilometers and the land taking up three hundred twenty-five thousand, three hundred sixty square kilometers. It is slightly larger than New Mexico in the USA. Cambodia, China, and Laos are Vietnam’s bordering countries. Vietnam’s topography in land is one with two progressively widening parts at the northern and southern ends.
Vietnam forms a one thousand mile long “S” shape. From the mountains in the north to the Red River delta a narrow central belt snakes down to the fertile southern Mekong delta.
“ The Vietnamese often describe their country as a bamboo pole with a rice basket on each end. The fertile paddy fields of the two river deltas are the rice baskets at either end, and the pole represents the baskets at either end, and the pole r...

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