Where is Vietnam?

I did an image search with Google.

The third image I got after the national flag and the map is this one: Ha Long Bay.

Is this the image of my country? I've never been there :))

source: Myvietnam.

I came here in Australia with the support of a development scholarship.
Yes, I'm proud of that. But the word  'development' always reminds me that my country is a developing country, in plain word: a poor country.
Some of my Chinese mates know about my good luck of having such a financial support. But they don't know I would feel better if Vietnamese students can study abroad as easily as they do. I would feel better if the professors and authors mention more frequently about my country as a phenomenon of new development just as they mention China or Singapore.

My country and China have many similarities, specifically in urban planning about which I and my Chinese mates discuss many times. I'm not shy in class, I can speak out my ideas when lecturers say something about "Communist world" unless they stop and look around asking "My Chinese students, do you have any idea about this". I feel invisible sometimes.

I could make my professor remember my name just after 2 classes. But he still couldn't remember whether I was from Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh after 2 months. I see he likes to put some academic term on the blackboard in Chinese to make his lecture more interesting. I tried once to raise a Vietnamese cultural term ("Tren ben duoi thuyen") in my presentation and gained the class's attention. But I know on the point of view consideriing all students as clients of the school, Chinese words are sold better.

Where is Vietnam?