Do I have to exchange Vietnamese dong or use US dollars directly to travel to Vietnam?

Traveling to Vietnam is to exchange Vietnamese dong.

Some overseas Vietnamese, such as American Vietnamese, call the "shield" Vietnamese Dong. ( ? ng Vi？ T Nam, Chinese character: copper Vietnam, "Vietnamese dong" for translation. )

Before becoming a French colony, the name of copper coins as the main currency and monetary unit came into being at this time. When Viet Nam was a French colony, the currency was the French Indian zhina dollar (issued by the French Agricultural Credit Bank with the words "piastre" and "Yuan" on its face).

Vietnamese people call it "shield" (? Ng, Chinese character: copper) is also called "platinum" by a few people (b? C, Chinese character: platinum. The meaning of silver). After Vietnam's independence, North Vietnam and South Vietnam issued currencies independently, both of which were called "shields". Since the reunification of Vietnam, the name "shield" has still been used.

Extended data

Vietnam is a multi-lingual and multi-ethnic country, with 54 ethnic groups officially recognized and announced. According to the General Statistics Bureau of Vietnam (T? ng C？ c Th？ Ng Kê 20 10) was published on 20 10. The results of the census conducted in 2009 showed that the total population of China was about 85.84 million. Among them, the main ethnic group "Jing" accounts for 85.7%, and the other 53 ethnic minorities account for 14.3%.

Jing people are Vietnamese in a narrow sense, and their mother tongue is Vietnamese (Vietnamese is called Ti? ng Vi？ T). From the perspective of language classification, the number of ethnic groups in Vietnam is far more than 54.

According to ethnology (Lewis 2009: 537), if sign language is not included, there are 105 languages in Vietnam. The 54 ethnic groups identified by the Vietnamese government belong to the following five language families: "Ao-Ya", "Zhuang-Dong" (Dai language) and "Hmong-Mien；; Miao Yao), "Austronesian" and "Sino-Tibetan".

Vietnamese, which belongs to the South Asian language family, has been designated as the official language of the country and is used in the education system and the mass media. About 90% of the ethnic minority population can use Vietnamese to varying degrees.

Since 2 1 century, with the rise of language awareness of ethnic minorities, the right to education and communication of ethnic mother tongue has been paid more and more attention. For example, the Voice of Vietnam Radio once broadcast in some minority languages such as Miao, Thai and Khmer.

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