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The North–South Expressway West (Vietnamese: Đường cao tốc Bắc – Nam phía Tây) is a partially completed expressway in Vietnam that will form an inland parallel route to the North–South expressway. It will run from Đoan Hùng to Rạch Sỏi in the Mekong Delta, following a similar route to the historic Ho Chi Minh Highway.
Jun 26 Operation Sea Float / Solid Anchor / Tran Hung Dao III [ 19 ] Joint US/Vietnamese attempt to inject an allied presence into An Xuyen Province , 175 miles southwest of Saigon to penetrate areas traditionally controlled by the VC and to extend allied control over the strategic Nam Can region of the Cà Mau Peninsula
Operation Toan Thang 46 [2] ARVN 5th Division operation to attack and destroy the NVA 70th and 80th Rear Service Groups: Fishhook, Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia: 79: May 1 – June 26: Operation Dong Tien II/Operation Toan Thang 43 [2] 1st Infantry Division and 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment operation: Cambodia: May 1 - June 29: Operation Toan ...
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).
Quảng Nam Province: 695: Dec 9 – Feb 28 1969: Operation Marshall Mountain [1] 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division and ARVN 1st Regiment clear and search operation: Quảng Trị Province: 78: 6 Dec 10 – 11: Operation King Hit [1] [5] 9th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment cordon and search operation: An Nhut village, Phước Tuy ...
The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit. 'Nine Dragon River Delta' or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, 'Mekong River Delta'), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of ...
The transport corridor on the north–south axis from Lạng Sơn to Cà Mau plays a very important role: connecting the political capital of Hanoi with the economic center of Ho Chi Minh City, passing through 32 provinces and cities accounting for 62.1% of the population, contributing 65.7% of the gross domestic product, affecting 74% of seaports (classes I, II), 75% of economic regions of ...
Known as Nam Bộ today in Vietnamese since 1975, it was historically called as Gia Định (1779–1832), Nam Kỳ (1832–1945, 1945-1949), Nam Bộ (1945), Bắc Việt (1949-1954), and Nam Phần (1954–1975). [1] Cochinchina or "Nam Kỳ" is a historical exonym for this region, originating during the French colonial period.