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1969 map of the Demilitarized Zone. The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel in Quang Tri province that was the dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam from 21 July 1954 to 2 July 1976, when Vietnam was officially divided into 2 de facto countries, which was 2 de jure military gathering areas supposed to be sustained in the short term after ...
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 ...
National Route 9 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 9 (or abbrv.QL9) or Đường 9) runs across Vietnam roughly in line with the 17th Parallel.The route includes two segments. The segment called National Route 9A begins at Đông Hà and ends at Lao Bảo on the Vietnam-Laos border and is entirely within Quảng Trị Province.
Bến Lức is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 128,849. [1] The district covers 290 km². The district capital lies at Bến Lức.
The Hiền Lương Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Hiền Lương) is a bridge over Bến Hải River, Vĩnh Linh District, Quảng Trị Province, North Central Coast, Việt Nam. Located at the 17th Parallel , it was bisected by the border between South Vietnam and North Vietnam during the Vietnam War , from 1954 to 1975.
The Bến Hải River (Vietnamese: Sông Bến Hải) is a river in central Vietnam which became an important landmark in the partition of the country into a northern and a southern zone along the 17th parallel by the Geneva Accords of 1954 then ended in 1976.
Around the 15th century, Bình Lục district was an oasis and from this location that the local people began to spread around to reclaim. In the 19th and 20th centuries, when Hà Nam province began to form, Bình Lục acted as a cultural center of the region with the emergence of many families with achievements from imperial examinations .
17th parallel may refer to: 17th parallel north, a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north; 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, a 1968 documentary film; 17th parallel south, a circle of latitude in the Southern Hemisphere