Southeast (Vietnam)

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Southeast region Đông Nam Bộ
Map showing location of Đông Nam Bộ (Southeast Vietnam)
Country	Vietnam
Area [1][2]
• Total	23,551.42 km2 (9,093.25 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]
• Total	18,810,780
• Density	800/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
GDP
• Total	VND 2,192 trillion US$ 96.3 billion (2021)
Time zone	UTC+7 (UTC +7)
HDI (2022)	0.737[3] high · 2nd

Đông Nam Bộ (literally "Southeast region") is a region in Vietnam. This region includes one municipality, Ho Chi Minh City; and five provinces: Đồng Nai, Bình Dương, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Bình Phước and Tây Ninh. The two south central provinces Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận are sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region. This region is the most economically developed region in Vietnam. In 2006, this region contributed 148,000 billion VND (equal to $9.25 billion) out of 251,000 billion VND to the state budget.^[4] This region is also the most highly urbanized in the country with more than 50% people living in urban areas (while the equivalent figure for Vietnam is just 25%).