Vietnamese encyclopedias are encyclopedias which are written in Vietnamese or are focused on Vietnam-related topics. In Vietnamese, encyclopedia are known as Bách khoa toàn thư, literally meaning "complete book of a hundred subjects". The first work which was considered as an encyclopedia of Vietnam is an 18th-century book Vân đài loại ngữ by Lê Quý Đôn, a Lê dynasty Confucian scholar. Since then, many encyclopedic works were published before the first modern and official encyclopedia was published in Vietnam.

The topics of modern Vietnamese encyclopedias vary and span from scientific topics to children's topics. Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Publications

Notable encyclopedic works and encyclopedias written in the Vietnamese language or focused on Vietnam-related topics include:

Vietnam War encyclopedias

Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.

  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, compiled by Stanley I. Kutler, published in 1996 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history, compiled by Spencer C. Tucker, first published in 1998 by ABC-CLIO.
  • Historical dictionary of the Vietnam War, compiled by Edwin E. Moise, first published in 2001 by Scarecrow Press.
  • Webster's new world dictionary of the Vietnam War, compiled by Marc Leepson, Websters New World staff, and Helen Hannaford; first published by MacMillan in 1998.

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