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Việt Nam is the world's thirteenth most populous country, with in excess of 82 million people, 23.1 per cent of whom reside in urban areas. Population density currently stands at approximately 267 persons per square kilometre. The largest centres of population are the southern capital of Hồ Chí Minh City (5.3 million), Hà Nội (3.1 million), and the cities of Hải Phòng (1.6 million) and Đà Nẵng (0.6 million). The former royal capital of Huế and the southern resort town of Vũng Tàu also support large growing urban communities.
The official language of Việt Nam is Vietnamese. A tonal, monosyllabic language, Vietnamese is written using a Roman script with added diacritical markings which was originally devised by French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660). Many of the country's 54 ethnic groups have their own distinct languages, though only a few of the ethnic minority languages have their own script.
