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:
Từ điển bách khoa quân sự Việt Nam (Vietnam Military Encyclopedia) an encyclopedia which was focused on military subjects; compiled by Vietnam Ministry of Defense Center for the Military Encyclopedia and published in 1996 by
Vietnam People's Army Publishing house.