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Hoàn Kiếm Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Hoàn Kiếm, chữ Hán: 湖還劍, meaning "Lake of the Returned Sword" or "Lake of the Restored Sword"), also known as Sword Lake (Hồ Gươm) or Tả Vọng Lake (Hồ Tả Vọng), is a fresh water lake, measuring some 12 ha in the historical center of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
The following is a list of Lakes in Vietnam. Ba Mẫu Lake; Ba Bể Lake; Biển Hồ Lake; Bảy Mẫu Lake; Búng Bình Thiên; Dầu Tiếng Lake; Giảng Võ Lake; Lakes in Hanoi (Các hồ tại Hà Nội): Hoàn Kiếm Lake; Núi Cốc Lake; Phú Ninh Lake; Thiền Quang Lake; Trúc Bạch Lake; West Lake; Xuân Hương Lake; Định ...
On October 26, 1967, during the Vietnam War, US Navy aviator John McCain was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile on a mission against a Hanoi power plant and parachuted wounded into Trúc Bạch Lake. He was dragged out of the water, confronted by angry North Vietnamese and turned over to the military as a prisoner of war.
Núi Cốc Reservoir (Vietnamese: Hồ Núi Cốc) is an artificial lake, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of the city of Thái Nguyên in Thái Nguyên Province, Vietnam, in Tam Đảo National Park. It is a popular visitor attraction on account of the legend associated with the 89 islands within the lake.
Ba Bể Lake in the dry season. Ba Bể Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Ba Bể, Ba Bể meaning "Three Lakes" in the local Tay language) is the largest natural fresh water lake in Vietnam, stretching about 8 kilometers in the north-south direction. The surface area of the lake fluctuates between 3 and 5 km 2 between dry and wet
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Dầu Tiếng Lake is an artificial lake in the three provinces of Tây Ninh, Bình Dương, and Bình Phước in the Southeast region, Vietnam. The lake was formed by damming the upper reaches of the Saigon River , making it the largest irrigation reservoir in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
The Thác Bà Reservoir or Thác Bà Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Thác Bà) is an artificial lake in Yên Bái Province, Vietnam created by construction of the Thác Bà hydroelectric plant in the 1960s. [1] Thác Bà is the name of the Bà Falls which pre-existed the dam (cf. Vietnamese: thác nước, waterfall). [2] Panoramic view of Thác Bà lake