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Laos was a site of the Ho Chi Minh trail used by North Vietnam. [3] Laos was also bombed by South Vietnamese and American forces due to North Vietnamese occupation of eastern Laos. [4] Laos contains Vietnamese soldiers stationed there since Vietnam and Laos signed a treaty to create a united sphere and to support repair after the Laotian Civil ...
Whether before or now, Route 7 is the direct access between Laos and Vietnam, especially in northeastern Laos. The city of Nong Het [35] was founded a little over a century ago. It is only a few kilometers from the Vietnamese border. It was a city where there were many Hmong/Miao people lived there in the past, especially before the Vietnam War ...
Vietnam was however partitioned into North and South Vietnam separated by a Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, with Laos bordering both entities. [2] During the Vietnam War the border was crossed by Viet Cong supply lines, most notably the Ho Chi Minh Trail , causing it to be heavily bombed by American forces. [ 3 ]
In September 1959, North Vietnam formed Group 959 in Laos with the aim of securing the supply route to South Vietnam and building the Pathet Lao into a stronger counterforce against the Lao Royal government. [7]: 95–6 [8] Group 959 openly supplied, trained and militarily supported the Pathet Lao. [7]: 141–4 The typical strategy during this ...
The 225 kilometer-long route runs from Diễn Châu (Diễn Châu District) northwestward across Yên Thành, Đô Lương, Anh Sơn, Con Cuông, Tương Dương, and Kỳ Sơn districts and reach the Laos-Vietnam border at Nậm Cắn. In Nậm Cắn, National Route 7 connects with National Route 7 of Laos.
Dak Nong Province is located in the southwest of Central Vietnam, at the end of the Truong Son Range and lies on a large plateau with an elevation of 500 meters above sea level. Dak Nong is renowned for the majestic landscape of waterfalls, nighttime campfires with the sound of gongs and the local-favored stem wine.
Laos, [c] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), [d] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12] Its capital and most populous city is Vientiane.
Currently, the CLV-DTA comprises 13 border provinces within the three countries of which four (Ratanakiri, Stung Treng, Kratié and Mondulkiri) are in Cambodia, four (Attapeu, Salavan, Sekong and Champasak) in Laos and five (Kon Tum, Đắk Lắk, Gia Lai, Đăk Nông and Bình Phước) in Vietnam. A ministerial-level meeting of the three ...