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Encyclopedic dictionary of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam) is the name of an encyclopedia funded by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam consisting of 4 volumes published between 1995 and 2005. Each volume is around 1,000 pages thick, including about 40,000 entries from 40 different scientific disciplines by Dictionary Publishing House.
The first volume was printed in 1995, the second in 2002, the third in 2003, and the last in 2005, being fully reprinted in 2011. This is the first encyclopedia of Vietnam compiled with the organization and direction of the State of Vietnam, with a budget of 32 billion VND and 1,200 leading scientists in 6 years of work.