Vietnam has a population of 83 million people, with Hanoi as the capital city and Ho Chi Minh City as the largest city. The main ethnic group is Kinh Vietnamese, and the primary religion is Buddhism. Pho, a beef or chicken noodle soup, is Vietnam's national food. Vietnamese weddings traditionally take place in autumn or winter and involve astrological consultations and gift-giving ceremonies. Funerals follow solemn traditions such as washing and dressing the body along with placing rice and coins in the mouth.

2. Area: 331,689 km2
Population: 83 million
Capital City: Hanoi (population 3.5 million)
Largest City: Ho Chi Minh City (population 7.8
million)
People: Kinh Vietnamese 85%, plus 53 other ethnic
groups
Languages: Vietnamese, minority languages
Religion(s): mainly Buddhism, also
Catholicism, Protestantism, Cao Dai and Hoa Hao
religions
Currency: Vietnamese Dong (VND)

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4. TRADITIONAL DRESS “AO DAI”

6. VIETNAM NATIONAL FOOD
Pho is a Vietnamese noodle
soup, usually served with beef
(phở bò) or chicken (phở gà).
The soup includes noodles made
from rice flour and is often
served with Asian basil, saw
tooth herb, rau om (rice paddy
herb), cilantro, thinly sliced
green onion, lime juice, and
bean sprouts that are added to
the soup by the person who is
dining. The dish is associated
with the city of Hanoi, where the
first pho restaurant opened in
the 1920s. Pho is a popular
street food, and night-food,[6]
and is, alongside gỏi cuốn, one
of "the world's 50 most delicious
foods," according to CNN.

7. VIETNAMESE WEDDING
Most Vietnamese wedding
takes place in autumn and
winter when the weather
is cooler and farmers have
less field work. Many
Vietnamese families turn
to astrologers to help
determine the bride and
groom’s compatibility and
to choose an auspicious
wedding day. For a
Vietnamese women
getting married at the age
of 22, 23, 26 or 28 is
considered unlucky .

8. BETROTHAL CEREMONY OR AN HOI
This ceremony involves
gifts giving. The groom
and his family visit the
bride’s family bearing
round red lacquered
boxes full of
tea, cakes, fruit, wine &
bettlenuts. As red is
considered a lucky colour
the boxes draped in red
silk and carried by
unmarried boys or girls in
red clothes.

9. VIETNAMESE LANGUAGE
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is the national and official language of
Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of Vietnamese people (Kinh),
and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It also is
spoken as a first or second language by many ethnic minorities
of Vietnam. It is part of the Austro-Asiatic language family of
which it has the most speakers by a significant margin (several
times larger than the other Austro-Asiatic languages put
together).Much of Vietnamese vocabulary has been borrowed
from Chinese, and it formerly was written using the Chinese
writing system, albeit in a modified format and was given
vernacular pronunciation. As a byproduct of French colonial
rule, the language displays some influence from French, and
the Vietnamese alphabet (quốc ngữ) in use today is a Latin
alphabet with additional diacritics for tones and certain vowels
and consonants.

10. VIETNAMESE FUNERAL

11. “The sense of the dead is that
of the final” says a
Vietnamese proverb, implying
that funeral ceremonies must
be solemnly organized.
Funeral went as follows:
- The body was washed and
dressed
- A chop stick was laid
between the teeth and
then a pinch of rice and
three coins were dropped
in the mouth.
- After 49 days the family
stops bringing rice to the
altar & then after 100 days
the family celebrates “Tot
Khoc” or the end of the
tears.

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