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At least 62 people were killed (51 in France) and 12 were missing during a European windstorm in Western Europe, affecting mainly Spain, France, Germany and the Benelux region. Numerous levees were breached in western France. By the end of the month, the unusual cold had spread from primarily the south to the north of Sweden.
Low Countries Spanish Civil War: 0.35–0.47 million [131] [132] [133] 1936–1939 [e] Nationalists vs. Republicans: Iberian Peninsula Colombian conflict: 0.45 million [137] 1964–present Colombia vs. Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and paramilitaries vs. FARC: Colombia Polish–Ottoman Wars: 0.43 million [138] [139] 1485–1699
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .
In 1984, the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project was founded by Diane Carlson Evans, leading to the creation of the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington D.C. in 1993. [112] [113] The Vietnam Women's Memorial is in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall. [114] [115] It honors the American women who served in the Vietnam War. [116]
The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in each state in Germany, in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. The warmest years on record in Germany were 2018 and 2022. The warmest years on record in Germany were 2018 and 2022.
Following the end of the war, many refugees fled Vietnam by boat and ship. The number of these "boat people" leaving Vietnam and arriving safely in another country totalled almost 800,000 between 1975 and 1995. Many of the refugees failed to survive the passage, facing danger from pirates, over-crowded boats, and storms.
About 5,099 South Koreans were killed and 10,962 wounded during the war. South Korea claimed to have killed 41,000 Viet Cong. [33] [35] The United States paid South Korean soldiers 236 million dollars for their efforts in Vietnam, [33] and South Korean GNP increased five-fold during the war. [33]
[1]: 30 Because Vietnam is strongly influenced by the monsoon, the mean temperatures in Vietnam are lower than other countries located at the same latitude in Asia. [4] [6] In winter, mean temperatures range from 1 to 28 °C (34 to 82 °F), which decreases from south to north, and/or as one climbs up its mountains, and vice versa.