Map of Vietnam

Vietnam is located in Asia. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 16.2° N, 107.8° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Cambodia, China and Laos — and also has its own coastline. Within Asia, a continent of 49 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Vietnam is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Vietnam shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Vietnam covers about 331,212 km² (127,882 sq mi). That makes it the 67th-largest country in the world by area and the 19th-largest in Asia, larger by area than 30 of the continent’s 49 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 101,343,800, the 16th-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in Asia, accounting for about 2.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Vietnam has an average population density of about 306 people per km². Among the 49 countries of Asia it stands 8th by population and 19th by area.

The seat of government is Hanoi, and the official currency is the Vietnamese đồng (VND, ₫), and the main official language is Vietnamese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+07:00.

Vietnam carries the ISO country codes VN and VNM, dials on the international calling code +84 and uses the .vn internet domain.

Vietnam shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are China (capital Beijing, about 1,408,280,000 people), Cambodia (capital Phnom Penh, about 17,577,760 people) and Laos (capital Vientiane, about 7,647,000 people).

By area, Vietnam is larger than 2 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 16.2° N, 107.8° E and opens at zoom level 5, framing Vietnam within Asia. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Hanoi. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Vietnam lies about 1,795 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Vietnam keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+07:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +07:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Vietnamese đồng (VND, ₫).

The official language is Vietnamese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +84 and websites commonly use the .vn internet domain.

In short, Vietnam is a coastal country in Asia, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Hanoi. Vietnam has a population of about 101,343,800 and covers around 331,212 km² (127,882 sq mi), ranking it 16th in the world by population and 67th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Vietnam.

The flag of Vietnam features a large five-pointed yellow star on a red field.

The flag of Vietnam is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.