Czech Republic–Vietnam relations (Czech: Česko-vietnamské vztahy; Vietnamese: Quan hệ Séc – Việt Nam) are foreign relations between the Czech Republic and Vietnam.
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The foreign relations between Czechoslovakia and Vietnam were established on February 2, 1950.[1]
As of 2018, there were 61,097 Vietnamese citizens with a residence permit in the Czech Republic, making them one of the largest immigrant groups in the country and the largest non-European group.[2]
Vietnam does not tell the number of foreign nationals per country in 2019 Census (it shows only 3,553 foreigners total [3]). In 2011, Committee on Foreign Affairs of Czech Parliament cited that "Czech community in Vietnam does not exist yet".[4]
In September 2021, COVID-19 vaccination of Czech citizens living in Vietnam, organized by Czech Embassy in Hanoi, was attended by "almost 400" people.[5]
In 2010s, Czech Republic and Vietnam consider each other as strategic markets with the aim to reach US$1 billion in two-way trade in the near future. As of 2015, Czech imports from Vietnam include seafood, farm produce such as coffee, tea and pepper. Vietnamese imports from the Czech republic are industrial goods, precision engineering, petrochemical equipment and energy.[6]
One of the successful Czech companies in Vietnam is Home Credit[7][n 1].