GALLERY 17 - VIETNAM Vietnam, sometimes spelled Viet Nam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea - referred to in Vietnam as the East Sea - to the east. With a population of over 89 million as of 2011, Vietnam is the 13th-most-populous country in the world, and the eighth-most-populous Asian country. The Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in 938 AD. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th century. Efforts to resist the French eventually led to their expulsion from the country in the mid-20th century, leaving Vietnam divided politically into two countries. Fighting between the two sides continued, with heavy foreign intervention, during the Vietnam War, ending with a North Vietnamese victory in 1975. VIEW OUR PATTAYA,THAILAND CONDO VIETNAM 17-1 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-2 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-3 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-4 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-5 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-6 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-7 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-8 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-9 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-10 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-11 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-12 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-13 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-14 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-15 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-16 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-17 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-18 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-19 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-20 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-21 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-22 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-23 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-24 Click to enlarge VIETNAM 17-25 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-26 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-27 Click to enlarge   VIETNAM 17-28 Click to enlarge