The nation is S shaped. Flying from Ho Chi Minh City in the south to Hanoi in the north takes only two hours. But the journey takes 32 hours by train or road. This is altogether different from China, where high-speed rail is expected to cut the trip from Beijing to Shanghai from 12 to seven hours.
南北 S 型的地形，從南越胡志明到北越河內，相距達 2 千公里，搭乘飛機就要 2 小時，搭火車或陸路交通更得耗時 32 小時，不像北京到上海，預計明年高速鐵路通車後，京滬往來將由目前的 12 小時提速到 7 小時。