Honorary consulates and trade missions (with the exception of the economic & culture office in Taipei, Taiwan) are omitted from this listing.
The first overseas presence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (the antecedent to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam) was a representative office in Paris, approximately during the period of the Fontainebleau Conference in 1946–1947.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam's first embassy was opened in Beijing in 1950, followed by Moscow in 1952, and consulates in Nanning, Kunming, and Guangzhou opening shortly afterwards.
In 1964 the DRV had opened 19 diplomatic missions abroad; six years later this number increased to 30.
[1] South Vietnam also had its own separate diplomatic network until the fall of Saigon in 1975.