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c. ^ "Europe" as defined by the International Monetary Fund. Europe is a continent [t] located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east.
Vũng Tàu (Hanoi accent: [vuŋm˧ˀ˥ taːw˨˩] ⓘ, Saigon accent: [vuŋm˧˩˧ taːw˨˩] ⓘ) is the largest city of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province in southern Vietnam.It is the province's economic, financial and cultural centre, and a popular tourist hub in southern Vietnam.
In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands. The two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to the north, divided from each other by the Baltic Sea. Three smaller peninsulas— Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans —emerge from the southern margin of the mainland.
This period is also called the east-central European golden age of around 1600. [78] At the beginning of the 17th century, numeracy levels in eastern Europe were relatively low, although regional differences existed. During the 18th century, the regions began to catch up with western Europe, but did not develop as rapidly.
In China, the Hmong people are classified as a sub-group of the Miao people. The modern Hmong reside mainly in Southwest China ( Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guangxi) and countries in Southeast Asia such as Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. There is also a large diasporic community in the United States of more than 300,000.
The name Việt Nam ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [viə̀t naːm], chữ Hán: 越南 ), literally "Viet South", means "Viet of the South" per Vietnamese word order or "South of the Viet" per Classical Chinese word order. [15] A variation of the name, Nanyue (or Nam Việt, 南越 ), was first documented in the 2nd century BC. [16]
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, [a] Western Europe, [b] and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America [c] also constitute the West. [5] [6] [7] The Western world likewise is called the Occident (from Latin ...
Vietnamese (Vietnamese: tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]