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Patron Saint: Saint Joseph

Saints: 118 Saints, 3 Blesseds

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Continent: South and East Asia

Capital: Hanoi

Area: 310,070 km²

Population: 96,160,163

Neighbouring Countries: ← Cambodia , ↖ Laos , ↑ China

Religions: Buddhist 7.9%, Catholic 6.6%, Hoa Hao 1.7%, Cao Dai 0.9%, Protestant 0.9%, Muslim 0.1%, none 81.8%

Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)

Ethnic Groups: Kinh (Viet) 85.7%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.8%, Muong 1.5%, Khmer 1.5%, Mong 1.2%, Nung 1.1%, Hoa 1%, other 4.3%

Motto: Ðộc lập, Tự do, Hạnh phúc (Vietnamese) (Independence, Liberty and Happiness)

Area: 331,689 km²

Catholic Population: 7,278,000 Catholics (7.4% of 98,506,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 3,420 parishes, 462 mission stations (38 with resident priest, 424 without resident priest), 1,353 other centres

Clergy: 47 bishops (24 diocesan, 23 titular), 6,854 priests (4,821 diocesan, 2,033 religious), 38 permanent deacons (14 diocesan, 24 religious)

Non-Clergy: 29,668 religious (4,218 brothers, 25,450 sisters), 717 members of secular institutes (3 brothers, 714 sisters), 4,478 major seminarians, 5,968 missionaries, 71,164 catechists