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<title>
Vietnam: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Vietnam
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Southeast Asia, bordering the South China Sea,
between Laos and the Philippines
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 329,560 km2</l>
<l> land area: 325,360 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly larger than New Mexico</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 3,818 km, Cambodia 982 km, China 1,281
km, Laos 1,555 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 3,444 km (excludes islands)
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 nm or the edge of continental
margin</l>
<l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: maritime boundary with Cambodia not
defined; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands
with China, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and possibly Brunei;
unresolved maritime boundary with Thailand; maritime boundary
dispute with China in the Gulf of Tonkin; Paracel Islands
occupied by China but claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan
</p>
<p>Climate: tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy
season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season
(mid-October to mid-March)
</p>
<p>Terrain: low, flat delta in south and north; central
highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest
</p>
<p>Natural resources: phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite,
chromate, offshore oil deposits, forests
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 22%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 2%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 1%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 40%</l>
<l> other: 35%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 18,300 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: occasional typhoons (May to January) with
extensive flooding
</p></body></article></text>