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Before 1975, North Vietnam had maintained that the Central Highlands and the Day Truong Son were strategic areas of paramount importance, essential to the domination not only of South Vietnam but also of the southern part of Indochina. Since 1975, the highlands have provided an area in which to relocate people from the densely populated lowlands.
The Vietnamese government often groups the various provinces and municipalities into three regions: Northern Vietnam, Central Vietnam, and Southern Vietnam.These regions can be further subdivided into eight subregions: Northeast Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast, the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands, Southeast Vietnam, and the Mekong River Delta.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Vietnam defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature ... Cardamom Mountains rain forests; ... South China Sea Oceanic Islands ...
Because Vietnam is located in the eastern Indochinese Peninsula, the northernmost point and the westernmost point both lie on the land, and there are two southernmost points and two easternmost points along and inside the South China Sea. Vietnam stretches along the coast of the South China Sea, with the northernmost point being more than 1,650 ...
Contains the mountainous provinces to the west of south-central Vietnam. There are a significant number of ethnic minorities in the region. One province is along Vietnam's border with Laos, and four border Cambodia (Kon Tum borders both Laos and Cambodia). Southern Vietnam (Nam Bộ, Miền Nam) Southeast (Đông Nam Bộ, Miền Đông)
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The Sơn Đoòng Cave is considered to have the world's largest natural cave passage. [24] [25] Tràng An Landscape Complex † Ninh Bình: 2016 1438bis; (v), (vii), (viii) (mixed) [c] Tràng An is a scenic area located at the southern margin of the Red River Delta. It contains limestone karst peaks with valleys.
According to the planning of industrial areas of the Vietnam Government in 2020, most of the midland and northern mountainous (except Quảng Ninh) is located in First Area. It's divided into 2 sub-regions: Northwest: Điện Biên, Lai Châu, Sơn La, Hòa Bình, Lào Cai, Yên Bái.