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1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
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 ...
The accords called for a cease fire in the war, the independence of Vietnam, its division at the 17th parallel of latitude into two provisional states, North Vietnam and the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the establishment of a demilitarized zone 10 kilometers (6 miles) wide separating the two provisional states. Viet Minh soldiers were ...
It took the crew two days of trekking through the jungle, carrying provisions and gear, to reach Vietnam's enormous Hang Son Doong cave. 'Planet Earth' reminds us: 'There's so much left in the ...
Hang Son Doong, which translates as ‘mountain river cave’ is the largest cave passage in the world […] Vietnam’s Eighth Wonder of the World Revealed in ‘A Crack in the Mountain’: Watch ...
National Route 9 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 9 (or abbrv.QL9) or Đường 9) runs across Vietnam roughly in line with the 17th Parallel.The route includes two segments. The segment called National Route 9A begins at Đông Hà and ends at Lao Bảo on the Vietnam-Laos border and is entirely within Quảng Trị Province.
Despite all of our recent advancements in technology, the Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam was not even encountered until 1991, millions of years after its creation.
"World's Largest Cave, Son Doong, Prepping For First Public Tours" (includes video). The Huffington Post; Chùm ảnh khám phá hang động đẹp và lớn nhất thế giới(includes images) Quảng Bình Province (in Vietnamese) "In pictures: Inside Hang Son Doong, the world's largest caves in Vietnam". June 20, 2014