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Time zone:

GMT/UTC + 7 (the same zone with Thailand, Laos, Cambodia)

Working days from Monday to Friday.

Office hour: Morning: 7:30 - 12:00; Afternoon: 13:00 - 16:30. Museums are usually closed on Monday but you can visit temples and pagodas every day. Opening hour for most restaurants and shops is at about 8:00 till 22:00.

Office hours

All Government offices are open eight hours a day from 7.30 to 16.30 (except for a one-hour lunch break) on Monday to Saturday. Sunday is a holiday.

Public holidays

January 1: New Year Day, one day holiday.

April 30: Saigon Liberation Day, one day holiday.

May 1: International Labor Day, one day holiday.

September 2: National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, one day holiday.

Vietnam traditional lunar New Year Festival (Tet Nguyen Dan): Four day holiday. It often falls between January and February. The holidays begin on the Eve and the first three days of a Lunar New Year.

Other major anniversaries

February 3: Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party

May 19: Birthday of President Ho Chi Minh

December 25: Christmas

The following major traditional festivals are listed by lunar calendar date:

. The 15th of the 1st moon: Tet Thuong Nguyen.

. The 2nd day of the 4th moon: New Year Festival of the Khmer ethnic minority people.

. The 8th day of the 4th moon: Buddha's Birthday.

. The 15th day of the 7th moon: Tet Trung Nguyen.

. The 15th day of the 8th moon: Mid-Autumn Festival

. The 29th day of the 8th moon: New Year Festival of the Cham ethnic minority people.

The 15th day of the 10th moon: Boat-racing festival of the Khmer ethnic people in the Mekong River Delta. Weights Measures System Metric Geography Vietnam borders Cambodia, Laos and China and stretches over 1600km (1000mi) along the eastern coast of the Indochinese Peninsula. The country's two main cultivated areas are the Red River Delta (15,000 sq km/5400 sq mi) in the north and the Mekong Delta (60,000 sq km/23,400 sq mi) in the south. Three-quarters of the country is mountainous and hilly; the highest peak, at 3143m (10,310ft), is Fansipan in the northwest.

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Geography

Vietnam borders Cambodia, Laos and China and stretches over 1600km (1000mi) along the eastern coast of the Indochinese Peninsula. The country's two main cultivated areas are the Red River Delta (15,000 sq km/5400 sq mi) in the north and the Mekong Delta (60,000 sq km/23,400 sq mi) in the south. Three-quarters of the country is mountainous and hilly; the highest peak, at 3143m (10,310ft), is Fansipan in the northwest.

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