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Charming Plateau
National flag Language
The country’s flag features a five Vietnamese language is the lingua
pointed yellow star, two-thirds the franca applied for all ethnicities in
flags length, set on a red rectangular the education system, administrative
background. The five pointed star flag machinery and social conversations.
was first introduced in the Southern
Revolt (November 23, 1940) and There are 24 ethnicities with
later became the national flag of the distinctive writing systems such as
Democratic Republic of Vietnam since Tay, Nung, Mong, J’rai, Ede, Thai,
its foundation in August, 1945. Khmer, Chinese or Cham… Some
of these languages are optional in
Population many public schools.
The Vietnamese ethnicities totaled Religion
over 90,5 million people in 2014.
Vietnamese (Kinh) make up over Buddhism and Catholicism are
85% of the population and are the two most popular religions in
concentrated in platform provinces Vietnam along with many others
and the basin of alluvial rivers. The such as Protestantism, Islam and
rest of the 53 ethnicities lives in some vernacular religions (Hoa Hao,
mountainous regions and midlands Cao Dai…)
across the country. The rest of the
population includes the Khmer Climate
Krom ethnicity 1.5%, Chinese 3%
and other ethnicities including: Tay, Vietnam has a tropical monsoon
Muong, Mong, Cham and more. climate with high humidity and
rainfall levels all year
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