If you are an active traveler, surely you will know about Vietnam – the pearl of Southeast Asia. Maybe you’ve seen photos of its cities’ swarming motorbikes and their crazy cargo, or the tropical beaches that line much of the country’s 2,100 miles of coast, or the jungle mountains of the interior and their resident “hill tribes.”

Let’s step away from those images for a moment and look at some facts and figures you probably don’t know about Vietnam.