Tourism in Vietnam

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Vietnam

Colonized: 2 September 1945 (from France)
Per Capita Income: $2,600 (2007 est.)
Literacy Rate:
total population: 90.3%
male: 93.9%
female: 86.9% (2002 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate:
at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.08 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2008 est.)
Life Span:
total population: 71.33 years
male: 68.52 years
female: 74.33 years (2008 est.)
HIV Population:
220,000 (2003 est.)
3 Connections: French
Ethnic Groups: Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census)
Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)

Laos

Colonized: 19 July 1949 (from France)
Per Capita Income: $1,900 (2007 est.)
Literacy Rate:
total population: 68.7%
male: 77%
female: 60.9% (2001 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate:
total: 79.61 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 88.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 69.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)
Life Span:
total population: 56.29 years
male: 54.19 years
female: 58.47 years (2008 est.)
HIV population: 1,700 (2003 est.)
3 connections: Legal system based on traditional customs, French legal norms and procedures.
Language: Lao (official), French, English, and various ethnic languages
Ethnic Groups: Lao Loum (lowland) 68%, Lao Theung (upland) 22%, Lao Soung (highland) including the Hmong and the Yao 9%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1%

Chad

Colonized by:France
Natural Resources: petroleum, uranium, natron, kaolin, fish (Lake Chad), gold, limestone, sand and gravel, salt
Per Capita Income: $1,600 (2007 est.)
Language: French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
Literacy Rate:
total population: 47.5%
male: 56%
female: 39.3% (2003 est.)
Infant Mortality Rate:
total: 100.36 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 106.48 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 94 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est.)
Life Span:
total population: 47.43 years
male: 46.4 years
female: 48.5 years (2008 est.)
Language:
French (official), Arabic (official), Sara (in south), more than 120 different languages and dialects
Ethnic Groups:
Sara 27.7%, Arab 12.3%, Mayo-Kebbi 11.5%, Kanem-Bornou 9%, Ouaddai 8.7%, Hadjarai 6.7%, Tandjile 6.5%, Gorane 6.3%, Fitri-Batha 4.7%, other 6.4%, unknown 0.3% (1993 census)
Money: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
3 Continued Influences:Legal system: based on French civil law system, Money:Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States,Language:French

Sudan

Sudan
Natural Resources:petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, hydropower
Language:Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English
Ethnic Groups: black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, foreigners 2%, other 1%
Literacy Rate:
total population: 61.1%
male: 71.8%
female: 50.5% (2003 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 86.98 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 87.09 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 86.86 deaths/1,000 live births (2008 est).
Life Span:
total population: 50.28 years
male: 49.38 years
female: 51.23 years (2008 est.)
Colonized by:
1 January 1956 (from Egypt and UK)
3 continued influences: money pounds (UK), one official language English,5 % are christian