Geography • Area: 329,590 sq km • Elevation: Lowest meters-highest 5,144 • Climate: South is tropical-North is warm & rainy but sometimes it’s dry • Natural resources: Phosphates, coal manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forest and hydropower • Farming: 20.14% arable land, only 6.93% permanent crops other 72.93% Food • rice is main food • Use fermented fish sauce as dip called “Nuoc Mam” Music • They sing the types of music as we • Rock and Blues are their favorites Art • Some art originated in France • Art skills used to make temples or statues worship Holidays • Lunar New Year “Tet Nguyen Dar” • Victory Day is the day they celebrate the liberation of Ho Chi Minh City April 30th Map Vietnam is next to the China Sea Bibliography • http://www.wilsoncreek.org/Staff/vclinton/ • http://online.culturegrams.com/index.php • http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/vi ewTrackMembersFrames.do? org.apache.struts.taglib.html.TOKEN=80a 4fea14125400e7e603929f17f0919&numb er=326350&password= • http://www.cia.gov/ • http://www.wikiapedia.org/ Thanks for watching Bet that was the best multimedia slide show you’ve ever seen!