According to my almost always-correct calculations, if Vietnam built its own Vietnam War wall, using the names of every Vietnamese killed during the war, it would be ~350ft (~1.1km) tall and
~10,800ft (~3.2 km) long.Wait let me try this again.
Ok I figure that the Vietnam Wall is ~250 feet long and ranges from 8 inches to 10ft in height because it’s a giant triangle. That’s an area of 86,110 ft. The wall has 58,276 names. So each name probably takes up about 1.5 sq feet of space.
The highest accepted death toll for Vietnamese from 1955-1975 is 3,812,000. If each Vietnamese name takes up an area of 1.5 ft, then Vietnam’s memorial would be 5,718,000 sq ft. Unfortunately we don’t know the perimeter of the hypothetical so let’s just make up a height. How about 12 ft. So the Vietnamese Wall would be 476,000 ft long or 90 miles