Vietnam, another interesting country in Southeast Asia. It borders Cambodia, Laos and China, and is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula (which Cambodia and Thailand also belong to).
The capital is Hanoi, but the largest city is Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam has had at least 7 different names since its foundation, but since it started already before 3000 BC it’s not very surprising. The current name, Vietnam or Viet Nam, seems to have been adopted somewhere around the start of the 19th century. Viet is the name of the largest ethnic group in Vietnam, and Nam means “the South”, indicating south of China.
Vietnam is quite big, almost the size of Germany, and divided into 58 provinces. As much as 40% of of the land is mountains, and only about 20% could be considered level land. Vietnam also holds two World’s Natural Heritages, Halong Bay and Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.