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February 20, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
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Section sizes

Section size for Vietnam (57 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	19,586	19,586
Etymology	4,400	4,400
History	91	32,655
Prehistory and early history	4,001	4,001
Dynastic Vietnam	5,249	5,249
French Indochina	7,540	7,540
First Indochina War	5,925	5,925
Vietnam War	4,930	4,930
Reunification and reforms	34	4,919
1970s	2,704	2,704
1980s to present	2,181	2,181
Geography	4,723	16,967
Climate	2,966	2,966
Biodiversity	9,278	9,278
Government and politics	7,386	21,989
Administrative divisions	5,177	5,177
Foreign relations	5,156	5,156
Military	1,399	1,399
Human rights and sociopolitical issues	2,871	2,871
Economy	6,856	27,316
Agriculture	1,118	1,835
Seafood	717	717
Science and technology	3,418	3,418
Tourism	1,903	1,903
Transport	5,949	5,949
Energy	2,555	2,555
Telecommunication	1,400	1,400
Water supply and sanitation	3,400	3,400
Demographics	3,251	23,181
Urbanisation	3,945	3,945
Languages	5,131	5,131
Religion	4,668	4,668
Education	2,239	2,239
Health	3,947	3,947
Culture	5,974	20,464
Literature	2,229	2,229
Music	2,853	2,853
Media	1,736	1,736
Cuisine	2,556	2,556
Holidays and festivals	1,867	1,867
Sports	3,249	3,249
See also	81	81
Notes	26	26
References	35	35
Sources	14	151,313
Print	27,841	27,841
Legislation and government source	19,745	19,745
Academic publications	31,763	31,763
News and magazines	44,708	44,708
Websites	26,836	26,836
Free content	406	406
Further reading	16,035	16,035
External links	736	8,043
Government	734	734
Media and censorship	380	380
Tourism	86	86
Miscellaneous	6,107	6,107
Total	342,091	342,091

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 1 January 2025

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For the country's infobox, below Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam (Vietnamese), add 越南社會主義共和國 (Chữ Hán) as done with South Korea DVB The Great (talk) 20:56, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, if we want to be more accurate, it would be 共和社會主義越南 as being written in that order would perfectly correspond with Cộng hòa Xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam. DVB The Great (talk) 21:05, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. Chữ Hán is no longer used in modern contexts. Adding that transcription to the infobox would be unnecessary cruft, especially since Chữ Hán does not exist in an official government capacity. Yue🌙 22:28, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't that be the same with South Korea? They also don't use Hanja anymore if I remember correctly. DVB The Great (talk) 00:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Second option of the Image Switcher

Hello, I've noticed that, in the image switcher, the second option is named "Show map of ASEAN", which in Wikipedia, is not really good (see MOS:MAPOF), since I am not an extended comfirmed user, that's mean that i can't directly edit this article. Thanks. QwertyZ34 (talk) 17:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sweden supporting North Vietnam in 1955 incorrect

The article says North Vietnam was supported by Sweden in 1955 when Ngô Đình Diệm claimed himself as president of South Vietnam. The source does not claim this, but rather says Sweden first started supporting Viet Cong in 1971, but might have been sympathizing with it in late 1960's. I do not have editing permission for this article, could someone who has correct it? Gurkmaztha (talk) 12:01, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request to Replace Orthographic Map Image of Vietnam

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Replace:

With:

DannamEmpire (talk) 04:22, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: No clear reason to do this. Remsense ‥ 论 04:25, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose we could put the two of them side by side as a "Spot the difference(s)" puzzle. If there ARE any differences (I sure didn't spot any). Uporządnicki (talk) 10:21, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I do see something. The proposed replacement has all these little curves and angles on the Pacific and Indian Oceans. I suppose they're meant to delineate ocean territories of islands that are too small to appear on the map. Uporządnicki (talk) 10:25, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 14 February 2025

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In the Formation section in the infobox, I suggest adding the Élysée Accords (8 March 1949) with the name "End of the French protectorate", as the 9th event below the "Declaration of Independence" event. The Élysée Accords was an important event in Vietnamese history, after this treaty, the French protectorate (colonial regime) in Vietnam was officially abolished.^[1] Of course, Vietnam was de facto not completely independent from France at that time as Vietnam was only associated state, but at least France recognized the abolition of the protectorate in Vietnam. Anyway, the Élysée Accords was important in Vietnamese history. In fact Vietnam gained full independence from France on 4 June 1954 but not in the Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954.^[2]^[3] Again, I think we need to add the Élysée Accords. 58.186.77.50 (talk) 02:16, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

~~I agree. Fixer09 (talk) 20:58, 8 March 2025 (UTC)~~ (sock strike)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 6 March 2025

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I want to update Vietnam population from 96,208,984 in 2019 census to 101,112,656^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] in 2024 census. Also I want to change Vietnam's population ranking from 15 to 16.^[8]2402:9D80:3A6:A255:B3F8:1A3C:1F6E:15C9 (talk) 11:27, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 11 March 2025

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Under the section "Economy", subsection "Agriculture" states in the first sentence that Vietnam's increased agricultural output is due to "land reforms", with no elaboration on the point of comparison or what these reforms entail. I believe the he only proximate source that mentions such a thing is the Nielsen 2007^[9] source. This source, however, does not primarily attribute this increased output to land reforms. The attribution is instead given primarily to trade liberalisation.

Furthermore, due to the lack of clarification and the nature of Vietnam's history, readers may come under the reasonable impression that "land reform" here refers to something like collectivisation, which is the exact opposite of what the reforms in question actually entail.

As such, the term "several land reform measures" here should be replaced with something akin to "broad market liberalisation efforts undertaken by the government starting from 1986 as part of the Đổi Mới program, including trade liberalisation and no longer requiring farmers to participate in cooperatives". Maybe less if this is too wordy, maybe some of it moved into other sentences. Dieknon (talk) 21:11, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110806004651/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent5.htm. Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |ngày truy cập= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |tựa đề= ignored (help)
^ "A picture taken on ngày 4 tháng 6 năm 1954 shows Vietnamese Prime Minister Buu Loc and French council president Joseph Laniel (R) preparing to sign two Franco-Vietnamese treaties by which France recognised Vietnam as an independent state at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, on ngày 4 tháng 6 năm 1954. These signatures took place one month after the defeat of Dien Bien Phu and a few days before the fall of Laniel's government". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-19.
^ "Vietnam, indépendance, Digithèque MJP". Archived from the original on 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-01-19.
^ https://tuoitre.vn/mat-do-dan-so-tai-tp-hcm-gap-1-7-lan-so-voi-ha-noi-20250222214719029.htm
^ https://vnpa.moh.gov.vn/tin-tong-hop/viet-nam-van-dang-trong-thoi-ky-co-cau-dan-so-vang
^ https://nhandan.vn/sau-5-nam-dan-so-viet-nam-tang-them-49-trieu-nguoi-post854698.html
^ https://www.gso.gov.vn/du-lieu-va-so-lieu-thong-ke/2025/01/thong-cao-bao-chi-ket-qua-dieu-tra-dan-so-va-nha-o-giua-ky-nam-2024/#:~:text=(1)%20Theo%20k%E1%BA%BFt%20qu%E1%BA%A3%20%C4%90i%E1%BB%81u,tr%C3%AAn%20th%E1%BA%BF%20gi%E1%BB%9Bi%5B1%5D.
^ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
^ https://web.archive.org/web/20181005074015/http://agro.gov.vn/images/2007/04/VN%20Rice%20Policy.pdf

[pent5-1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110806004651/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent5.htm. Archived from the original on 2011-08-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |ngày truy cập= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |tựa đề= ignored (help)

[2] "A picture taken on ngày 4 tháng 6 năm 1954 shows Vietnamese Prime Minister Buu Loc and French council president Joseph Laniel (R) preparing to sign two Franco-Vietnamese treaties by which France recognised Vietnam as an independent state at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, on ngày 4 tháng 6 năm 1954. These signatures took place one month after the defeat of Dien Bien Phu and a few days before the fall of Laniel's government". Archived from the original on 2014-07-26. Retrieved 2014-07-19.

[3] "Vietnam, indépendance, Digithèque MJP". Archived from the original on 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-01-19.

[4] ttps://tuoitre.vn/mat-do-dan-so-tai-tp-hcm-gap-1-7-lan-so-voi-ha-noi-20250222214719029.htm

[5] ttps://vnpa.moh.gov.vn/tin-tong-hop/viet-nam-van-dang-trong-thoi-ky-co-cau-dan-so-vang

[6] ttps://nhandan.vn/sau-5-nam-dan-so-viet-nam-tang-them-49-trieu-nguoi-post854698.html

[7] ttps://www.gso.gov.vn/du-lieu-va-so-lieu-thong-ke/2025/01/thong-cao-bao-chi-ket-qua-dieu-tra-dan-so-va-nha-o-giua-ky-nam-2024/#:~:text=(1)%20Theo%20k%E1%BA%BFt%20qu%E1%BA%A3%20%C4%90i%E1%BB%81u,tr%C3%AAn%20th%E1%BA%BF%20gi%E1%BB%9Bi%5B1%5D.

[8] ttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

[9] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20181005074015/http://agro.gov.vn/images/2007/04/VN%20Rice%20Policy.pdf

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