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Vietnam

A country stretched into a thousand-mile S along the South China Sea, barely fifty kilometres wide at its narrowest point: from the karst islands of Ha Long Bay in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south, Vietnam is one of the most elongated nations on Earth, and among the fastest growing economies of the last three decades.

Aerial view of the limestone karst islands of Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Ha Long Bay

Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0

Red for revolution and the blood spent winning independence. The gold star's five points stand for the five groups the state casts as building the nation together: workers, farmers, soldiers, intellectuals and traders.

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