Map of Vietnam
Open Vietnam on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.
Facts
As the source states them, in the source’s own words.
| Capital | Hanoi |
|---|---|
| Area | 331,212 km² |
| Currency | VND (Vietnamese đồng) |
| Languages | Vietnamese |
Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.
Historical maps
IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Vietnam existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.
Dated events in this outline
Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Vietnam. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.
- 1940
Japan occupies northern Indochina — the first step to Pearl Harbor
World War II · IntMap’s war record
22 September → - 1955
The Republic of Vietnam is proclaimed in Saigon after a rigged referendum deposes Bảo Đại
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
26 October → - 1960
The National Liberation Front is founded in Tây Ninh province
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
20 December → - 1963
Battle of Ấp Bắc — a Viet Cong battalion stands and beats a force five times its size
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
2 January → - 1963
Thích Quảng Đức burns himself at a Saigon crossroads, and the Buddhist crisis becomes visible to the world
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
11 June → - 1963
The generals’ coup: Ngô Đình Diệm is overthrown and killed
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
1 November → - 1965
Camp Holloway at Pleiku is attacked, and the reprisal strikes of Flaming Dart begin the air war against the North
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
7 February → - 1965
Operation Rolling Thunder — three and a half years of graduated bombing of North Vietnam
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
2 March → - 1965
Two Marine battalions land at Đà Nẵng — the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
8 March → - 1965
Operation Starlite — the first major American ground battle of the war, south of Chu Lai
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
18 August → - 1965
Battle of the Ia Drang — the first meeting of the US Army and the PAVN in strength
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
14 November → - 1966
Battle of Long Tân — one Australian company holds off a regiment in a rubber plantation
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
18 August → - 1967
Operation Cedar Falls — the Iron Triangle is cleared and Bến Súc is emptied and razed
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
8 January → - 1967
Operation Junction City — the largest American operation of the war, and the war’s only US combat parachute drop
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
22 February → - 1967
Battle of Đắk Tô — three weeks for the hills above the town, and Hill 875
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
3 November → - 1968
Siege of Khe Sanh — seventy-seven days of encirclement, and a base abandoned five months later
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
21 January → - 1968
The Tết Offensive — over a hundred towns attacked at once, a military defeat that ended American confidence in the war
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
30 January → - 1968
Battle of Huế — a month of street fighting for the citadel, and most of the old imperial city destroyed
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
31 January → - 1968
Massacre at Huế — thousands taken from lists and killed during the month the city was held
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
31 January → - 1968
My Lai massacre — an American company kills the unarmed inhabitants of Sơn Mỹ in a morning
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
16 March → - 1969
Hamburger Hill — Đồi A Bia in the A Sầu valley is taken in eleven days and abandoned in seventeen
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
10 May → - 1972
The Easter Offensive — the North attacks on three axes with fourteen divisions and armour, and for six months the war has front lines again
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
30 March → - 1972
Siege of An Lộc — a town of two square kilometres holds out for ninety-five days on airdrops
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
13 April → - 1972
Battle of Kon Tum — the Highlands axis of the offensive is stopped at the provincial capital
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
14 April → - 1972
Operation Pocket Money — Hải Phòng and the northern ports are mined from the air
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
9 May → - 1972
Operation Linebacker — the bombing of the North resumes, this time against its railways, bridges and fuel
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
10 May → - 1972
Operation Linebacker II — eleven days of B-52 raids on Hanoi and Hải Phòng over Christmas
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
18 December → - 1974
Battle of Phước Long — a province falls and the United States does not come back; Hanoi has its answer
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
13 December → - 1975
Ban Mê Thuột falls in thirty-two hours, and the order to abandon the Central Highlands follows
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
10 March → - 1975
The Huế–Đà Nẵng campaign — two cities and the whole northern corps area go in nine days
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
21 March → - 1975
Battle of Xuân Lộc — the ARVN 18th Division holds the last gate to Saigon for twelve days
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
9 April → - 1975
The Hồ Chí Minh campaign — five columns close on Saigon from five directions
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
26 April → - 1975
Operation Frequent Wind — the last Americans and some seven thousand others are lifted out by helicopter
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
29 April → - 1975
The fall of Saigon — a tank comes through the palace gate at 11:30 and the Republic of Vietnam surrenders
Vietnam War · IntMap’s war record
30 April →
Open data about Vietnam
The datasets IntMap may share about Vietnam, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/VNM.json
airports
Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
country-facts
ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0
health
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial
Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data
language
public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit
Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)
mobility
ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike
Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)
religion
public domain · Requires: nothing
What this page states
The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.
A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.
An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.
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