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From the end of the 19th century to the present, the name of the province has been written in international documents as Langson (English), Lang-Son (French), or sometimes Langland (in general literature and tourist posters). [6] Besides, in some cases of Vietnamese spelling before 1977, it was often written as Lạng-sơn (Kinh) or La̭ng-xơn ...
The Sino-Vietnamese War is known by various names in Chinese and Vietnamese. The neutral names for the war are 中越战争 (Sino-Vietnamese war) in Chinese and Chiến tranh biên giới Việt-Trung (Vietnamese-Chinese border war) in Vietnamese.
Gia Định province was divided into the 5 provinces of: Gia Định, Chợ Lớn, Tân An, Tây Ninh, and Gò Công. Biên Hòa province was divided into the 4 provinces of: Biên Hòa, Bà Rịa, Thủ Dầu Một, and Cap Saint-Jacques (later Vũng Tàu province). Cap Saint Jacques was created on 30/04/1929 and dissolved 01/01/1935; in 1947 ...
Tam Thanh cave. The surface rocks in the area are a Permian limestone, overlain by the early Triassic Lang Son Formation, consisting of flyschoid beds with interbedded sandstones, siltstones and clay shales and some felsic volcanics. [4]
Cao Lang province consists of 2 Cao Bang town and Lang Son], the provincial capital is located in Cao Bang town, [3] not included district Dinh Lap at that time belonged to the province Quang Ninh. At the end of the year 1978, GDP of Cao Lang province reached 383 million VND, of which the value of agriculture-forestry output reached 120 million ...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) began their operations at 05:00 on 17 February [5] with a barrage of more than 6,000 artillery shells pounding on Vietnamese strongpoints and gun positions. [6]
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The China–Vietnam border is the international boundary between China and Vietnam, consisting of a 1,297 km (806 mi) terrestrial border stretching from the tripoint with Laos in the west to the Gulf of Tonkin coast in the east, and a maritime border in the Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea.