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  2. Emblem of Laos - Wikipedia

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    The National Emblem of the Lao People's Democratic Republic shows the national shrine Pha That Luang. A dam is pictured, which is a symbol of power generation at the reservoir Nam Ngum . An asphalt street is also pictured, as well as a stylized watered field.

  3. National symbols of Laos - Wikipedia

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    The national symbols of Laos are official and unofficial flags, icons or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of Laos and of its culture. Symbol [ edit ]

  4. Laos - Wikipedia

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    Laos, [c] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), [d] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12] Its capital and most populous city is Vientiane.

  5. Vietnamese exonyms - Wikipedia

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    During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...

  6. Vietnamese people in Laos - Wikipedia

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    Another organisation is the Association of Vietnamese People in Laos (Tổng hội người Việt Nam tại Lào), which has organised various activities such as football games between Vietnamese and Lao people, as well as collecting donations for charitable activities.

  7. Flag of Laos - Wikipedia

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    The current Lao flag was designed in 1945 by Maha Sila Viravong, a famous Lao nationalist, intellectual, and scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture. As a member of the Lao Issara movement, he was tasked with creating a new Lao national flag that was to be distinct from the royalist red flag with the white three-headed ...

  8. History of Laos (1945–present) - Wikipedia

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    Other levels of co-operation between Laos and Vietnam existed, for example, party-to-party meetings and province-to-province exchanges, as well as mass organisations for youths and women. [11] Meetings of the commission were held regularly. [11] The primary channels for Vietnam's influence in Laos, however, were the LPRP and the LPA. [11]

  9. List of monarchs of Laos - Wikipedia

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    The Lao People's Democratic Republic is the modern state derived from the final Kingdom of Laos. The political source of Lao history and cultural identity is the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang , which during its apogee emerged as one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia .