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The Vietnamese Chileans (pueblo vietnamita en Chile) refers to Chileans with at least one Vietnamese parent. They mostly came as boat people during the late-1970s. Today, the free port city of Iquique—is home to the largest Vietnamese community in Latin America, surpassing Brazil. There is an enclave within Iquique, called Little Vietnam (Vietnam pequeño), where most Vietnamese in the country reside.

Early Vietnamese immigrants to Chile
Prior to the 1970s, there were only less than 100 Vietnamese in Chile. With the fall of Saigon in 1975—massive immigration of the Vietnamese started from refugee camps—from Southeast Asia to Chile. The Vietnamese boat people at the refugee camps in Southeast Asia, were found and rescued by a Japanese oil ship near Thailand (Pattaya) and taken to the free zone of Iquique by that ship, via Singapore and the Cape of Good Hope. After 1982, the immigration slowed, with around 3,500 Vietnamese living in Chile. Immigration of the Vietnamese got faster during the early and mid-1990s.

Relations with Vietnam
Chile has an embassy in Hanoi, and Vietnam has an embassy in Santiago de Chile.