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Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Nguyễn Thanh Việt, born 1971) is a Vietnamese American novelist and USC professor whose debut novel The Sympathizer (2015) won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he later wrote The Committed, The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies, and the memoir A Man of Two Faces.
Việt Trì
Việt Trì, city at the Red-Lô-Đà river confluence in Phú Thọ, Vietnam, 80 km northwest of Hanoi; former provincial capital, abolished as a district-level unit on 1 July 2025, now 5 wards and commune of Phú Thọ.
Vieta (lunar crater)
Vieta is an IAU-recognized lunar impact crater, Gazetteer feature ID 6384, about 87.16 km across, centered at 29.31°S, 56.53°W in the Moon's southern hemisphere, a large complex crater.
Vieta jumping
Vieta jumping, also called root flipping, is a number theory proof technique for symmetric quadratic Diophantine equations, famous from Problem 6 of the 1988 International Mathematical Olympiad.
Vieta's formulas
Vieta's formulas relate a polynomial's coefficients to the sums and products of its roots; for ax² + bx + c, the roots add to −b/a and multiply to c/a.
Vietcombank
Vietcombank is a Vietnamese bank established in 1963 from the State Bank of Vietnam. It is the most profitable bank in the country, leading in trade finance and foreign exchange.
Vietheil
Vietheil: hamlet in Pradines, Corrèze, France, and a Roman-period ancient place (Barrington Atlas 14 G3, Pleiades) near the Gallo-Roman fanum of Les Jaillants; also the 65-hectare Landes de Vietheil ZNIEFF heathland.
VietinBank
VietinBank, the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade, is a state-controlled Vietnamese bank in Hanoi and one of the country's Big 4 banks.
VietJet Air
VietJet Air is a Vietnamese low-cost airline based in Ho Chi Minh City, the first fully private airline licensed in Vietnam and now the country's largest.
Vietnam
Vietnam (Việt Nam), Southeast Asian single-party state reclassified upper-middle-income by the World Bank in July 2026; Đổi Mới reforms since 1986, 8 percent GDP growth in 2025, GDP per capita $5,066, high-income target by 2045.
Vietnam Airlines
Vietnam Airlines, or Hàng Không Việt Nam, is the national flag carrier of Vietnam, a state-linked joint stock company headquartered in Hanoi and a SkyTeam member since 2010.
Vietnam Campaign Medal
Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with device (1960–), also called Vietnam Campaign Medal: a South Vietnamese foreign award, authorized for U.S. wear in 1966, for six months' Vietnam service or direct combat support between 1961 and 1973.
Vietnam Electricity
Vietnam Electricity (Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam, or EVN) is the state-owned power utility of Vietnam, founded in 1994 and headquartered in Hanoi, serving nearly 31.4 million customers.
Vietnam Exchange (VNX)
Vietnam Exchange (VNX), or Sở giao dịch Chứng khoán Việt Nam, is Vietnam's state-owned stock-exchange parent company, launched in 2021 to oversee HOSE and HNX.
Vietnam Idol
Vietnam Idol is a Vietnamese reality singing competition adapted from the British show Pop Idol, first aired in 2007 and revived in 2023 with Hà An Huy as its eighth champion.
Vietnam national football team
Vietnam national football team (Đội tuyển Việt Nam), men's side run by the VFF; four-time ASEAN/AFF champions (2008, 2018, 2024, 2026), Asian Cup quarter-finalists 2007 and 2019, never a World Cup finalist, FIFA rank 99.
Vietnam People's Air Force
Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF), part of the Air Defence-Air Force, founded 1955; flew MiG-17s and MiG-21s against the US 1965-1972; now fields Su-27/Su-30 fighters.
Vietnam People's Navy
Vietnam People's Navy (Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam), naval service of Vietnam founded 7 May 1955, organized in five Naval Regions; operates six Russian Kilo-class submarines, the largest submarine fleet in Southeast Asia, plus Gepard frigates.
Vietnam Prosperity Joint-stock Commercial Bank
Vietnam Prosperity Joint-stock Commercial Bank, ticker VPB, is a Vietnamese private commercial bank headquartered in Hanoi, founded in 1993 and now the largest private bank in Vietnam by assets.
Vietnam Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal (VSM), U.S. campaign medal established by Executive Order 11231 on July 8, 1965; awarded for Vietnam and contiguous waters/airspace service, plus Thailand, Laos, Cambodia support, through March 28, 1973, with 17 campaign stars.
Vietnam Technological & Commercial Joint Stock Bank
Vietnam Technological & Commercial Joint Stock Bank, known as Techcombank, is a Vietnamese commercial bank founded in 1993, with about 18 million customers and 302 branches across Vietnam.
Vietnam veteran
Vietnam veteran: also Vietnam era veteran, a US service member of the Vietnam War years. Distinguished by legal definition (38 U.S.C. §4211), Agent Orange exposure science, PTSD rates, and postwar reception.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, or the Wall, is a 1982 black granite memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., designed by Maya Lin, listing over 58,000 Vietnam War dead and missing chronologically by date of casualty.
Vietnam War
Vietnam War (American War in Vietnam): conflict between communist-led North Vietnam and US-backed South Vietnam, ending 30 April 1975 with Saigon's fall; dau tranh strategy, ~60,000 American and 3 million Vietnamese deaths.
Vietnam War casualties
Vietnam War casualties: deaths from the 1955-1975 war. 58,220 U.S. military fatal casualties per DCAS; Vietnam's 1995 estimate of 2 million civilian and 1.1 million communist combatant deaths; South Vietnamese military deaths about 224,000.
Vietnam War literature
Vietnam War literature is the fiction, memoir, poetry, and reportage about the Vietnam War, from Graham Greene's The Quiet American to Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer.
Vietnam War POW/MIA issue
The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue concerns American prisoners of war and missing personnel from the Vietnam War and the effort to account for the roughly 1,500 still unaccounted for.
Vietnam Writers' Association
The Vietnam Writers' Association (Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam) is the national professional organization of writers of Vietnam, founded at a congress in Hanoi in April 1957 as the first of its kind.
Vietnamese alphabet
Vietnamese alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ): the official 29-letter Latin-based script of Vietnamese, with 7 modified letters and 5 tone marks, created by 17th-century Catholic missionaries and official since 1945.
Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese Americans are people in the United States who trace origins to Vietnam, about 2.3 million in 2023, largely from refugee resettlement after the 1975 fall of Saigon.