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Country (long form)	Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Capital	Hanoi
Total Area	127,243.83 sq mi 329,560.00 sq km (slightly larger than New Mexico)
Population	79,939,014 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050	119,003,660
Languages	Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Literacy	93.7% total, 96.5% male, 91.2% female (1995 est.)
Religions	Buddhist, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), indigenous beliefs, Muslim
Life Expectancy	67.12 male, 72.19 female (2001 est.)
Government Type	Communist state
Currency	1 new dong (D) = 100 xu
GDP (per capita)	$1,950 (2000 est.)
Industry	food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper
Agriculture	paddy rice, corn, potatoes, rubber, soybeans, coffee, tea, bananas, sugar; poultry, pigs; fish
Arable Land	17%
Natural Resources	phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower