Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The demarcation line did not exactly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Bến Hải River in Quảng Trị Province to the ...
Regions of Vietnam Topographic map of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
After World War II, the parallel divided Vietnam into Chinese military administration in the north and the British in the south (See Timeline of World War II (1945) and War in Vietnam (1945-1946)). In the Chadian–Libyan conflict, from 1984 the parallel, known as the "Red Line", delineated areas controlled by opposing combatants.
Vietnam: Amboyna Cay (disputed) Hon Sao Island Cape Cà Mau (mainland) 07°51′N 08°25′N 08°35′N Sudan: Including Kafia Kingi [note 3] border with South Sudan south of Kurmuk, Blue Nile State: 08°41′N 09°30′N China (James Shoal, claimed 03°58′N) Cuarteron Reef (disputed) Southern tip of Hainan (undisputed) Hai'an, Guangdong ...
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
The 10th parallel north defines part of the border between Sierra Leone and Guinea.. The 10th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 10 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
In Africa, the parallel defines part of the border between Libya and Sudan.. The 20th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 20 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
The 11th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 11 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.It crosses Africa, the Indian Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, South America, and the Atlantic Ocean.