The People
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The population of Vietnam is 91.5 million and growing at an annuall percent of 1.1. About 70 percent of people live in rural area's. About 86 percent of the population is ethnic Kinh (Vietnamese). Historians believe that the earliest Vietnamese people gradually moved from the Indonesian archipelago through the Malay Peninsula and Thailand until they settled on the edges of the Red River in the Tonkin Delta.Modern: Nowadays, mourning ceremonies follow new rituals which are simplified; they consist of covering and putting the dead body into the coffin, the funeral procession, the burial of the coffin into the grave, and the visits to the tomb.