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Regions of Vietnam Topographic map of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987.
The Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The demarcation line did not exactly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Bến Hải River in Quảng Trị Province to the ...
Contains the coastal provinces in the southern half of Vietnam's central part. One province borders Laos. Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) Đắk Lắk; Đắk Nông; Gia Lai; Kon Tum; Lâm Đồng; 54,641.0 6,251,000 102.63 Contains the mountainous provinces to the west of south-central Vietnam. There are a significant number of ethnic ...
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.
ISO 3166-2:VN is the entry for Vietnam in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
The main environmental concern that persists in Vietnam today is the legacy of the use of the chemical herbicide Agent Orange, which continues to cause birth defects and many health problems in the Vietnamese population. In the southern and central areas affected most by the chemical's use during the Vietnam War, nearly 4.8 million Vietnamese ...
The 42nd parallel became agreed upon as the northward limit of the Spanish Empire by the Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 with the United States, which established the parallel as the border between the Viceroyalty of New Spain of the Kingdom of Spain and the western territory of the United States of America from the meridian of the headwaters of ...
Voice of Vietnam: State radio broadcaster; Vietnam Television: State television broadcaster; Vietnam News Agency: Official state news agency; Nhân Dân : Official Communist Party newspaper; Quân đội Nhân Dân: Newspaper of the People's Army; Vietnam Net: Largest Vietnamese portal, run by the government-owned Vietnam Post and ...