Geography and Population

1,240 miles long - in the Western hemisphere Vietnam would extend from Miami to Panama Two great river deltas: Red River in the north Mekong River in the south Together they support about 80% of the population of 76 million Mountain range cuts through the center of the country Vietnamese form 85% of the population Ethnically they are mostly non-Chinese Mongolian and Austro-Indonesian who originally lived in southern China.

Language

Vietnamese is a mixture of Malay-Indonesian and Thai with much locally derived

Monotonic and multitonic .

Use of Chinese ideographs until the French produced a romanized writing system: Quoc-ngu. Chinese
ideographs have mostly vanished except in pagodas and temples.

Monosyllabic