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Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan (which formed from the glacier's meltwater). The city of Chicago itself sits on the Chicago Plain, a flat plain that was once the bottom of ancestral Lake Chicago. This plain ...
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
Tiền Giang is a province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. The province was formed in February 1976, by the merger of Định Tường and Gò Công provinces of former Republic of Vietnam. [5]
US Army map indicating War Zones C, D, and the Iron Triangle, circa 1965-1967. The Iron Triangle (Vietnamese:Tam Giác Sắt) was a 120 square miles (310 km 2) area in the Bình Dương Province of Vietnam, so named due to it being a stronghold of Viet Minh activity during the war.
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Dầu Tiếng is a rural district of Bình Dương province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 92,592. [1] The district covers an area of 720 km 2. The district capital lies at Dầu Tiếng township. [1] The district had a base with the same name during the war in Vietnam.
Vietnam map of Köppen climate classification Hundreds of active fires burning across the hills and valleys of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam (labelled with red dots). Vietnam's climate, being located in the tropics and strongly influenced by the South China Sea has a monsoon-influenced climate typical of that of mainland Southeast Asia.
The North was known as the "Democratic Republic of Vietnam". Việt Nam (Vietnamese pronunciation:) was the name adopted by Emperor Gia Long in 1804. [6] It is a variation of "Nam Việt" (南 越, Southern Việt), a name used in ancient times. [6] In 1839, Emperor Minh Mạng renamed the country Đại Nam ("Great South"). [7]