Top 10 Amazing Facts About Vietnam 
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1 One thing that's definitely interesting about Vietnam is that in the country there are a lot of bikes like a whole lot of bikes motorcycles scooters you name it now this is because motorcycles have become so popular that they just started out numbering cars now in the country they're estimated 37 million motorcycles that are riding around with only two million cars in total now in Vietnam many people use the trains and they'll sometimes buy a ticket for themselves and yes a ticket for their bike to travel with them especially if they're going long distances now because there's so many people that are using them it's actually the law to make sure you wear a helmet as well as international drivers well you have to get license despite having your own driver's license unfortunately though in the city of Hanoi there are approximately 5 million bikes - 7 million people with officials saying that in some area.
2 Bikes are 1.4 to 3.7 two times the capacity for a road and it's become a major problem that the city is actually planning on banning bikes by the year 2030 but before any of this happens you know more public transportation it has to be set up and put in place now the next thing I want to talk about when it comes to Vietnam is the coffee so when it comes to Vietnamese coffee they export a lot of it although not one of their major exports compared to electronic equipment but after Brazil the country of Vietnam.
3 Vietnam is the second largest exporter or supplier of coffee in the world because it was first introduced in the country via the back in 1857 it became a major source for their economy and then fast forward in the Year 2019 Reuters actually said that it produced 1.9 million tons of coffee that year and then in the year 2012 it exported 1.2 billion dollars worth of coffee and then in Vietnam.
4 The majority of the coffee houses are state owned but Highlands Coffee was the first private company in Vietnam in 1998 after seeing a major rise in Starbucks shops popping up now there's another interesting but kind of rude facts about Vietnam it's that if you want to express your contempt towards someone in Vietnam you gotta make this finger gesture like I'll put up a photo on this screen like just giving you a heads-up in case you are planning a trip to go to Vietnam.
5 Vietnam I think I'm good though cuz I can't even try to I can't even make the symbol like I can try like I mean I've been trying before I started to fill um I'm trying now I'm just not that flexible so I guess I'm good then I'm not gonna be offending nobody over in Vietnam but moving on to some more facts the halong bay is one of the many UNESCO zones that are in Vietnam now this Bay includes approximately 1600 islands.
6 A National Monument back in the year 1962 but it was inscribed as a UNESCO zone in the year 1994 and now one thing that's important about the halong bay is that it has been around forever and has gone through many changes it's estimated that it has gone through at least 500 million geological changes now there was a time way back in history that it was a deep sea but from about 340 to 240 years ago it became very shallow and today it has 14 endemic floral species as well as area has been a major influence of Vietnam's.
7 Vietnam history having over five thousand years of cultural significance now II know there's a cave called the song dung and some people may think that it's the longest cave in the world but it's actually the largest known cave passage cross-section in the world now it's located near the laos vietnam border and it was only this back in the year 1991 about the year 2009 it got its record of being the largest cave passage and it sits at five kilometers long being 660 feet high and 490 feet wide I mean it's pretty impressive it also has some of the largest stalagmites it's estimated that some of these sell AG mites are 70 meters tall alright guys so the next thing I want to talk about is the SOI TN amusement park they have a man-made beach there they have tons of rides and it's also really cool in a fascinating place it's very colorful and you can find Buddhist statues.
8 Buddhist Statues all around the park they also have a giant pendulums for rides Ferris wheels which they call a windmill and it's also the home to Vietnam's first ever roller coaster it's simply called the roller coaster and it has seven cars running and the highest point being 30 meters with a length of 1.2 miles and it goes up to 200 kilometers fast now it's the most expensive roller coaster in Vietnam costing 30 billion dong now of course it's not as big as some other roller coasters that you're gonna find in different parts of the world but you know this is what's really important because it was their first big roller coaster moving on now it to fact.
9 Ho Chi Minh and new yang pronounce actually it's not even new Yin I thought it was pronounced new Yin all my life but it's actually pronounced win literally I just learned that when I was researching for this Article but anyways those two names are the two most common names that you'll find in Vietnam so the name wins spelled ng u ye n is the most popular family name in Vietnam and it's used by around 40% of the population and it's also the birth name of the famous Ho Chi Minh now Ho Chi Minh led the fight for independence against the French and the Japanese and then during the following US war he was seen as such an important symbol of unification that in the year 1976 Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam is also the world's largest exporter of cashew nuts so check this this is really not so check this they produce 37% of the global.
10 Cashew nuts so the nut itself is in fact this seed that grows at the bottom of the cashing Apple which is a fruit that's rich in nutrients and it contains five times the amount of vitamin C than oranges now the cashew tree is native to Brazil but Vietnam looks like it produces a lot more of that peach cashew comes in case in a pod that's attached to a large fruit called the cashew apple it's a rare example where the seed grows outside the fruit perfect.
And In this Article I will show you one more interesting facts.
11 I want to introduce on Tao um Tao is also known as Mandarin towel or the kitchen God and is regarded in Vietnamese culture as the emissary between heaven and earth so according to the legend on Tao makes an appearance just before the Vietnamese new year Tet Festival and during this time period he actually rushes up to heaven to give his annual report to God for all the activities of the families that have happened on the earth and then this report determines the fate of each household in the new year so Vietnamese people regard on Tao as a family member and various prayers and offerings are brought to him at the family altar and finally the last fact I want to share about Vietnam is about sports actually so when it comes to the sports soccer or most people call that football it's a very popular sport in Vietnam [Applause] in 1991 Vietnam was reintroduced to the international world stage competing at these Southeast Asian Games and by 2016 it marked the year where they first qualified to join FIFA and competed in the FIFA futsal World Cup eventually getting up to round 16 now speaking of sports you know when it comes to martial arts and it's not just jiu-jitsu or kung fu that Vietnam is really known for but rather it's a type of martial arts called vovinam and now this Vietnamese created martial arts is based on the yin-yang theory you know in some cases other martial arts focus on hard over soft or vice-versa however vovinam remains completely balanced in hard and soft techniques which can be translated into meaning strong or weak or opposition or yielding attacks okay all right guys so just like that those were ten surprising interesting facts about Vietnam is truly a gem on this planet and I can't wait to dive more.
So if you enjoyed this Article and you want to see more facts about Vietnam make sure let me know down below in the comment section also my social media links are below as well so you can follow me over there and before you guys head out I'm gonna be leaving you with a related Articles once you see it until next time guys it's been awesome hanging out with you and I'll see you guys there real soon Bye.
1 One thing that's definitely interesting about Vietnam is that in the country there are a lot of bikes like a whole lot of bikes motorcycles scooters you name it now this is because motorcycles have become so popular that they just started out numbering cars now in the country they're estimated 37 million motorcycles that are riding around with only two million cars in total now in Vietnam many people use the trains and they'll sometimes buy a ticket for themselves and yes a ticket for their bike to travel with them especially if they're going long distances now because there's so many people that are using them it's actually the law to make sure you wear a helmet as well as international drivers well you have to get license despite having your own driver's license unfortunately though in the city of Hanoi there are approximately 5 million bikes - 7 million people with officials saying that in some area.
2 Bikes are 1.4 to 3.7 two times the capacity for a road and it's become a major problem that the city is actually planning on banning bikes by the year 2030 but before any of this happens you know more public transportation it has to be set up and put in place now the next thing I want to talk about when it comes to Vietnam is the coffee so when it comes to Vietnamese coffee they export a lot of it although not one of their major exports compared to electronic equipment but after Brazil the country of Vietnam.
3 Vietnam is the second largest exporter or supplier of coffee in the world because it was first introduced in the country via the back in 1857 it became a major source for their economy and then fast forward in the Year 2019 Reuters actually said that it produced 1.9 million tons of coffee that year and then in the year 2012 it exported 1.2 billion dollars worth of coffee and then in Vietnam.
4 The majority of the coffee houses are state owned but Highlands Coffee was the first private company in Vietnam in 1998 after seeing a major rise in Starbucks shops popping up now there's another interesting but kind of rude facts about Vietnam it's that if you want to express your contempt towards someone in Vietnam you gotta make this finger gesture like I'll put up a photo on this screen like just giving you a heads-up in case you are planning a trip to go to Vietnam.
5 Vietnam I think I'm good though cuz I can't even try to I can't even make the symbol like I can try like I mean I've been trying before I started to fill um I'm trying now I'm just not that flexible so I guess I'm good then I'm not gonna be offending nobody over in Vietnam but moving on to some more facts the halong bay is one of the many UNESCO zones that are in Vietnam now this Bay includes approximately 1600 islands.
6 A National Monument back in the year 1962 but it was inscribed as a UNESCO zone in the year 1994 and now one thing that's important about the halong bay is that it has been around forever and has gone through many changes it's estimated that it has gone through at least 500 million geological changes now there was a time way back in history that it was a deep sea but from about 340 to 240 years ago it became very shallow and today it has 14 endemic floral species as well as area has been a major influence of Vietnam's.
7 Vietnam history having over five thousand years of cultural significance now II know there's a cave called the song dung and some people may think that it's the longest cave in the world but it's actually the largest known cave passage cross-section in the world now it's located near the laos vietnam border and it was only this back in the year 1991 about the year 2009 it got its record of being the largest cave passage and it sits at five kilometers long being 660 feet high and 490 feet wide I mean it's pretty impressive it also has some of the largest stalagmites it's estimated that some of these sell AG mites are 70 meters tall alright guys so the next thing I want to talk about is the SOI TN amusement park they have a man-made beach there they have tons of rides and it's also really cool in a fascinating place it's very colorful and you can find Buddhist statues.
8 Buddhist Statues all around the park they also have a giant pendulums for rides Ferris wheels which they call a windmill and it's also the home to Vietnam's first ever roller coaster it's simply called the roller coaster and it has seven cars running and the highest point being 30 meters with a length of 1.2 miles and it goes up to 200 kilometers fast now it's the most expensive roller coaster in Vietnam costing 30 billion dong now of course it's not as big as some other roller coasters that you're gonna find in different parts of the world but you know this is what's really important because it was their first big roller coaster moving on now it to fact.
9 Ho Chi Minh and new yang pronounce actually it's not even new Yin I thought it was pronounced new Yin all my life but it's actually pronounced win literally I just learned that when I was researching for this Article but anyways those two names are the two most common names that you'll find in Vietnam so the name wins spelled ng u ye n is the most popular family name in Vietnam and it's used by around 40% of the population and it's also the birth name of the famous Ho Chi Minh now Ho Chi Minh led the fight for independence against the French and the Japanese and then during the following US war he was seen as such an important symbol of unification that in the year 1976 Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam is also the world's largest exporter of cashew nuts so check this this is really not so check this they produce 37% of the global.
10 Cashew nuts so the nut itself is in fact this seed that grows at the bottom of the cashing Apple which is a fruit that's rich in nutrients and it contains five times the amount of vitamin C than oranges now the cashew tree is native to Brazil but Vietnam looks like it produces a lot more of that peach cashew comes in case in a pod that's attached to a large fruit called the cashew apple it's a rare example where the seed grows outside the fruit perfect.
And In this Article I will show you one more interesting facts.
11 I want to introduce on Tao um Tao is also known as Mandarin towel or the kitchen God and is regarded in Vietnamese culture as the emissary between heaven and earth so according to the legend on Tao makes an appearance just before the Vietnamese new year Tet Festival and during this time period he actually rushes up to heaven to give his annual report to God for all the activities of the families that have happened on the earth and then this report determines the fate of each household in the new year so Vietnamese people regard on Tao as a family member and various prayers and offerings are brought to him at the family altar and finally the last fact I want to share about Vietnam is about sports actually so when it comes to the sports soccer or most people call that football it's a very popular sport in Vietnam [Applause] in 1991 Vietnam was reintroduced to the international world stage competing at these Southeast Asian Games and by 2016 it marked the year where they first qualified to join FIFA and competed in the FIFA futsal World Cup eventually getting up to round 16 now speaking of sports you know when it comes to martial arts and it's not just jiu-jitsu or kung fu that Vietnam is really known for but rather it's a type of martial arts called vovinam and now this Vietnamese created martial arts is based on the yin-yang theory you know in some cases other martial arts focus on hard over soft or vice-versa however vovinam remains completely balanced in hard and soft techniques which can be translated into meaning strong or weak or opposition or yielding attacks okay all right guys so just like that those were ten surprising interesting facts about Vietnam is truly a gem on this planet and I can't wait to dive more.
So if you enjoyed this Article and you want to see more facts about Vietnam make sure let me know down below in the comment section also my social media links are below as well so you can follow me over there and before you guys head out I'm gonna be leaving you with a related Articles once you see it until next time guys it's been awesome hanging out with you and I'll see you guys there real soon Bye.
