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The 17th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 17 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam (see below).
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 ...
90th parallel south, the South Pole This page was last edited on 13 December 2024, at 17:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
17th parallel may refer to: 17th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north; 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, a 1968 documentary film; 17th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere
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 ...
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
The Mediterranean Sea, between Africa and Europe The Atlantic Ocean around the plate boundaries (text is in Finnish). The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent.
A map of dissident activities in Indochina in 1950 ... recognized the 17th parallel north as a "provisional military demarcation ... and Southeast Asia more broadly, ...