Source: The World Factbook
| Area: | 329,560 sq km |
| Capital: | Hanoi |
| Geographic coordinates: | 16 00 N, 106 00 E |
| Climate: | tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season (mid-October to mid-March) |
| Government: | Communist state |
| Currency: | dong (VND) |
| Literacy(%): | 90.3 |
| Languages: | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Ethnicity/race: | Kinh (Viet), Tay, Thai, Muong, Khome, Hoa, Nun, Hmong, others |
| Religions: | Buddhist, Catholic, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Protestant, Muslim, none |
| Industries: | food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper |
| Natural resources: | phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower |