Imitation butterfly from Vietnam

Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is a country in Southeast Asia. With 96,160,163 (2017) inhabitants, Vietnam is one of the fourteen most populous countries in the world. The capital is the northern Hanoi (Hà Nội) and the largest city is the southern Ho Chi Minh City (Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh), the former Saigon. Vietnam is located on the peninsula of Indochina and is bordered by China in the north, by the Gulf of Tonkin and the Chinese island of Hainan in the northeast, by the South China Sea in the southeast, by Cambodia in the southwest and by Laos. in the northwest. Indochina is a geographical term for that part of Asia that consists of the current Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Sometimes (eastern) Thailand is also counted. Vietnam is particularly influenced by China while Thailand, Cambodia and Laos are culturally more towards India.