Vietnam

"Vietnam is home to the finest rice paddies in Indochina, plus it's famous for the Vietnam War, a terrible war where not only the Indochina Peninsula is badly ravaged, but it's where communism spreaded half of it. Now I must say, I feared that Vietnam could violate ASEAN membership policies."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Vietnam Rises Again

Vietnam (UK: /ˌvjɛtˈnæm, -ˈnɑːm/, US: /ˌviːətˈnɑːm, -ˈnæm/; Vietnamese: Việt Nam [vîət nāːm]), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam), is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. With an estimated 94.6 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the world's 14th-most-populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country. Vietnam is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest, and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast.