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There were also tensions over irredentist Lao claims to Stung Treng, with Cambodia conducting a Khmer-isation campaign in the region in the 1950s-60s. [5] As a result no demarcation took place and Lao-Cambodian relations remained frosty, deteriorating further during the rule of the nationalist-Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975-79. [5]
The Cambodia–Laos–Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA; Vietnamese: Tam giác phát triển Việt Nam - Lào - Campuchia) is a growth triangle in the southern part of the Greater Mekong Subregion. The cooperation initiative was initiated in 1999 by the leaders of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and formalized in 2004.
History of Laos. History of Isan. v. t. e. Evidence of modern human presence in the northern and central highlands of Indochina, which constitute the territories of the modern Laotian nation-state, dates back to the Lower Paleolithic. [1] These earliest human migrants are Australo-Melanesians —associated with the Hoabinhian culture—and have ...
Tonlé Sap 16,000 km 2 (6,178 sq mi) Topography of Cambodia. Cambodia is a country in mainland Southeast Asia. It borders Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the Gulf of Thailand and covers a total area of approximately 181,035 km 2 (69,898 sq mi). The country is situated in its entirety inside the tropical Indomalayan realm [ 1 ] and the Indochina Time ...
Geography of Laos. Laos is a country in and the only landlocked nation in mainland Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam. It covers approximately 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), which had chosen to ally with the USSR, justified incursions into neighbouring Laos and Cambodia during the Second Indochinese War by reference to the international nature of communist revolution, where "Indochina is a single strategic unit, a single battlefield" and the Vietnam People's Army ...
The French protectorate of Laos (French: Protectorat français du Laos) was a French protectorate in Southeast Asia of what is today Laos between 1893 and 1953—with a brief interregnum as a Japanese puppet state in 1945—which constituted part of French Indochina. It was established over the Siamese vassal, the Kingdom of Luang Phrabang ...
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