API

A free, read-only JSON view of the published pages. Drafts are never exposed.

Endpoints

• GET /api/v1/entities?type=place&region=northwest&limit=100 — list published records. type is one of place, sight, transport, practical, food, culture, history, living, business.
• GET /api/v1/entity/{type}/{slug} — one record with its sources and links.
• GET /api/search?q=sapa — autocomplete over names, Vietnamese names and former names.

Example

curl https://vietnamfactbook.com/api/v1/entity/place/sapa

Terms

Attribution required. The underlying sources keep their own licences — geographic data from OpenStreetMap is ODbL, Wikidata is CC0 — so anything you build on this inherits those. See Data Sources. No rate limit is published; be reasonable.