General information

Vietnam’s soil is diverse with high fertility, thus providing very favourable conditions for the development of agriculture and forestry. Vietnam is also endowed with abundant and diverse flora, including 14,600 species of vegetation.

In addition to their unique cultures, 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam have different languages. 24 ethnic groups have their own scripts such as Thai, H'Mong, Tay, Nung, Khmer, Gia Rai, Ede, Chinese and Cham, etc. And some of these scripts, are used at schools.

At present, there are 20 million religious followers, nearly 62,500 dignitaries, monks and 22,345 worshiping places in Vietnam. Training establishments for different religions have grown in number.

Vietnam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centres practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place. On the basis of socio-economic development in the time of the Dong Son culture and given the struggle with nature and against aggression, Van Lang State, the first State in Vietnam was established in the 7th century B.C.