What is national border of Vietnam and how is it determined?

1. What is National Borders of Vietnam?

According to Article 1 of the Law on National Borders of Vietnam 2003, the national border of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam refers to vertical lines and planes determined by such lines which are based on to determine boundary of land territory, island and archipelago territories, including Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes, territorial waters, underground and airspace of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

What is national border of Vietnam and how is it determined? (Internet image)

2. How to determine National Borders of Vietnam?

Article 5 of the Law on National Borders of Vietnam 2003 stipulates how to determine the national border of Vietnam as follows:

- National border is identified by international agreements to which Vietnam is a signatory or stipulated by regulations and law of Vietnam.

- Land borders are defined and designated using border marker system.

- National border on sea is defined and designated using coordinates on nautical charts is the boundary beyond the territorial sea of land, islands and archipelagoes of Vietnam, and identified according to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982 and international agreements between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and relevant countries.

Borderlines beyond the contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone and continental shelf identify sovereign rights and jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982 and international agreements between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and relevant countries.

- National border under the ground is the vertical plane stretching downwardly from the land border and national border at sea.

Underground border at sea refers to the vertical plane stretching downwardly from the borderlines beyond the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf identifying sovereign rights and jurisdiction of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982 and international agreements between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and relevant countries.

- National border in the air is the vertical plane stretching upward from the land border and national border at sea.

3. What is the national border area of Vietnam?

According to Article 6 of the Law on National Borders of Vietnam 2003, the border area includes:

- Border area on land includes communes and townlets whose partial administrative division meets the land border;

- Border area at sea is determined from the national border at sea to the inclusive administrative division of communes, wards and townlets adjoining the sea, islands and archipelagoes;

- Border area in the air includes the space of 10 kilometers along the national border stretching inwards.

4. Prohibited acts regaring national border of Vietnam

According to Article 14 of the Law on National Borders of Vietnam 2003, the prohibited acts include:

- Displacement or vandalism of the border markers; falsification or deviation of the national borderline; deviation of natural flow of rivers or streams at the border; destruction of the border markers;

- Disruption of social security, order and safety in the border areas; illegal residence or cultivation at the border areas; destruction of the border works;

- Exhaustion of water resources, causing flood, environmental pollution, violating natural resources and national interest;

- Illegal crossing at national border; smuggling or illegal trafficking of goods, money, weapons, drugs, dangerous substances, flammable substances or explosive substances across the national border; transport of harmful cultural products and other commodities prohibited by the Government from import or export across the national border;

- Flying into no-fly zones; propelling, ejecting, releasing or carrying across the national border in the air flying vehicles, objects, substances that harm or potentially harm national defense, security, economy or health of inhabitants, environment, air safety and social order, safety in border areas;

- Other acts violating regulations and law regarding national border.

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