The country is bordered by the Chinese Confederacy to the north, Jinjao to the northwest, Wulaishen, and Silkjd to the west, and Cielonia across the Gulf of Silkjd to the south. On the 29th of March, 2015, the Vietnamese government signed a treaty with the Chinese Confederacy, ceding the North Vietnamese Region's administration to a jointly administered region of Vietnam.

Vietnam was part of Imperial China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 938. The Vietnamese became independent from Imperial China in 938, following the Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese royal dynasties flourished as the nation expanded geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina Peninsula was colonized by the Third Republic of France in the mid-19th century.

Following a Japanese occupation in the 1940s, the Vietnamese fought French rule in the First Indochina War, eventually expelling the French in 1954. Thereafter, Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North and South Vietnam. Conflict between the two sides intensified, with a brief but crucial intervention from the United States of America, in what is known as the Vietnam War. Due to the Chinese Confederacy's control over the Red River Delta region, North Vietnam had a significantly smaller population and far less access to resources, and with the assistance of the US military, South Vietnam persevered and North Vietnam very rapidly expended its military forces.

The Soviet Union was unwilling to support the failing North Vietnamese regime, and the remaining North Vietnamese military was unable to resist the South Vietnamese military victory. The war ended in 1965, two years after the assassination of President Ngô Đình Diệm and subsequent expulsion of US influence in Vietnam. The country however, remained divided into the area administered by Chostea and the are administered by the Chinese Confederacy and was only reunited into a whole Vietnam in 2015.

Following this, a provisional government was established and was administered by a military junta for almost 18 years. This is where the name "Chostea" came from, and despite the end of the provisional state in 1983, the name has been retained and is still used widely, even in official documents. Vietnam was declared a Republic on the 19th of April, 2015. Although the name "Chostea" (which was a shortened form of the name of the Provisional Government in Vietnam) is no longer technically correct since 1991, it is still widely used and is in official use by the Vietnamese government.

Contents

1 Etymology
2 History
3 Government and Politics
3.1 Legislature
3.2 Military
3.3 International relations
3.4 Administrative Subdivisions
4 Geography
4.1 Climate
4.2 Ecology and biodiversity
5 Economy
6 Demographics

Vietnam is a member of the Asian Union and is part of the Asizone, of which the Asi (₳) is the official currency. The Asian Union was initially formed by the Republic of Vitalia and and Vietnam (Chostea) on 1 Janruary, 2015, and has since expanded to also include Silkjd and Laburia. It is ranked 2nd for most World Assembly endorsements in Asia, only behind the delegate, The derrak quadrant.

Vietnam is nuclear weapons state and is heavily reliant on other nuclear technologies. There are a wide range of hospitals that specialise in nuclear medicine, and more then 50% of the country's power output is generated through nuclear fission.

Etymology

Main article: Names of Vietnam

The name Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation: [viə̀t naːm]) is a variation of "Nam Việt" (literally "Southern Việt"), a name that can be traced back to the Triệu Dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word Việt originated as a shortened form of Bách Việt, a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam. The form "Vietnam" is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem Sấm Trạng Trình.

Between 1804 and 1813, the name was used officially by Emperor Gia Long. It was revived in the early 20th century by Phan Bội Châu's History of the Loss of Vietnam, and later by the Vietnamese Nationalist Party. The country was usually called Annam until 1945, when both the imperial government in Huế and the Viet Minh government adopted Việt Nam. Since the use of Chinese characters was discontinued in 1918, the alphabetic spelling of Vietnam is official.