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title: "Vietnam — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Vietnam: capital Hanoi, area 331,210 km², population 101,598,527 (2025), currency Vietnamese đồng. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/vietnam/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Vietnam

**Vietnam: Capital Hanoi**

331,210 km² · 101,598,527 people (2025) · Vietnamese đồng

Long and narrow: about 1,650 km from north to south and under 50 km wide at the waist. Hang Sơn Đoòng in Phong Nha is the largest known cave passage in the world, big enough to hold a New York block of 40-storey buildings, with its own river, jungle and clouds. Hạ Long Bay holds roughly 1,600 limestone karst islands.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Hanoi
- **Largest city:** Ho Chi Minh City
- **Area:** 331,210 km² — 127,881 sq mi
- **Population:** 101,598,527 (2025)
- **Density:** 306.7 people per km²
- **Currency:** Vietnamese đồng (VND, ₫)
- **Official language:** Vietnamese
- **Time zone:** UTC+07:00
- **Calling code:** +84
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** VN · VNM
- **Continent:** Asia

## How it compares

- **By area:** 66 of 200
- **By population:** 16 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Republic of the Congo | 342,000 | 6,484,437 |
| Finland | 338,145 | 5,646,436 |
| Vietnam ← | 331,210 | 101,598,527 |
| Malaysia | 329,847 | 35,977,838 |
| Norway | 323,802 | 5,610,870 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Vietnam?

Hanoi

### What currency does Vietnam use?

The Vietnamese đồng (VND).

### How big is Vietnam?

331,210 km², or 127,881 square miles — 66 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Vietnam drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Finland](https://atoneplace.net/country/finland/)
- [Malaysia](https://atoneplace.net/country/malaysia/)
- [Norway](https://atoneplace.net/country/norway/)
- [India](https://atoneplace.net/country/india/)
- [China](https://atoneplace.net/country/china/)
- [Indonesia](https://atoneplace.net/country/indonesia/)
- [Pakistan](https://atoneplace.net/country/pakistan/)
- [Bangladesh](https://atoneplace.net/country/bangladesh/)
- [Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country/japan/)
- [Philippines](https://atoneplace.net/country/philippines/)
- [Iran](https://atoneplace.net/country/iran/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]