Emergency kit

Where

Vung Tau, Vietnam

Local language

Vietnamese · Phrasebook

Vung Tau speaks Southern Vietnamese. Administrative borders changed in 2025 (it is now part of Ho Chi Minh City; to verify).

Spoken here

Southern (Saigon, Mekong). Standard Vietnamese is understood everywhere. Some Khmer is spoken in parts of the Mekong Delta.

Elsewhere in the country

• Northern (Hanoi) (North: Hanoi, Hai Phong). Basis of the standard spoken language.
• Central (Hue, Quang, Da Nang) (Central coast: Hue, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai). Tones and words differ noticeably from standard Vietnamese; even other Vietnamese find it hard (to verify). Speak slowly, show written cards.
• Highland minority languages (Central Highlands and western mountains (e.g. Co Tu inland from Da Nang)). Villages may speak a minority language first and Vietnamese second. Show written cards, use pictures and gestures.

Local risks

• Storms and sea surge on the coast; flooding (to verify details)
• Heat and humidity

If you end up in a neighbouring country

• Cambodia: Khmer.
• Laos: Lao.
• China: Mandarin (standard). In the south: Cantonese and others, border villages also Zhuang and more. A village may not understand Mandarin at all: have a written card and a translator app.

Not filled in yet

• hospitals open 24h (names, addresses)
• Russian embassy / consulate contacts
• landmarks, main roads, port, ferry to Ho Chi Minh City
• evacuation directions
• offline map tiles