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Vĩnh Tế Canal. Coordinates: 10.570°N 104.926°E. A portion of Vĩnh Tế Canal in Châu Đốc, An Giang Province. The Vĩnh Tế Canal ( Vietnamese: Kênh Vĩnh Tế / 涇永濟, [1] Khmer: ព្រែកជីក or ព្រែកយួន) is an 87-kilometre-long (54 mi) canal in southern Vietnam, designed to give the territory of ...
History. Tan Son Nhat International Airport has its origins in the early 1930s when the French colonial government constructed a small airport with unpaved runways, known as Tân Sơn Nhứt Airfield near the village of Tan Son Nhut. By mid-1956, with U.S. aid, a 7,200-foot (2,190 m) runway had been built; the airfield near Saigon became known ...
Võ Nguyên Giáp ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [vɔ̌ˀ ŋʷīən jǎːp]; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a general of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), communist revolutionary and politician. Regarded as one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century, [1] [2] Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars ...
Free Fire is a free-to-play battle royale game developed and published by Garena for Android and iOS. [2] It was released on 8 December 2017. It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019 and has over 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store. In the first quarter of 2021 it was the highest grossing mobile game in the US. [3]
Vietnam, [d] [e] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ), [f] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Vĩnh Yên (Vietnamese: [vǐɲˀ ʔīən] ⓘ) is the city capital of Vĩnh Phúc Province, in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. As of census 2019, the population is 119,128 people, the area is 50.78 km 2 .
The Republic of Vietnam National Police – RVNP (Vietnamese: Cảnh sát Quốc gia Việt Nam Cộng hòa ), Police Nationale de la République du Vietnam or Police Nationale for short (Vietnamese: Cảnh sát Quốc gia – CSQG) in French, [1] was the official South Vietnamese national police force from 1962 to 1975, operating closely with ...
Vĩnh Linh (listen ⓘ) is a rural district of Quảng Trị province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. A coastal district, it is bordered to the east by the East Sea , to the south by Gio Linh district , to the southwest by Hướng Hóa district , and to the north by Quảng Bình province ( Lệ Thủy district ).
Vinh wiretap. The Vinh wiretap was an American espionage operation of the Vietnam War. From 7 December 1972 through early May 1973, CIA telephone intercepts of North Vietnamese military communications were supplied to American diplomat Henry Kissinger. As border phone lines were well watched, the decision was made to tap a military multiplex ...
Quảng Điền District. / 16.578037; 107.514749. Quảng Điền is a rural district of Thừa Thiên Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. It is located in the province's north. As of 2003 the district had a population of 91,514. [1] The district covers an area of 163 km 2. The district capital lies at Sịa.