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Kim Đồng got shot on the bank of Lenin stream (Cao Bằng) at 5am. He has just turned 14 years old. In the evening, Kim Đồng's friends and villagers took his body to be buried at Tèo Lài mountain. On September 23, 1997, Nông Văn Dền (i.e. Kim Đồng) was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the People's Armed Forces.
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
The transport corridor on the north–south axis from Lạng Sơn to Cà Mau plays a very important role: connecting the political capital of Hanoi with the economic center of Ho Chi Minh City, passing through 32 provinces and cities accounting for 62.1% of the population, contributing 65.7% of the gross domestic product, affecting 74% of seaports (classes I, II), 75% of economic regions of ...
The Haiphong–Ha Long–Van Don–Mong Cai Expressway (Vietnamese: Đường cao tốc Hải Phòng – Hạ Long – Vân Đồn – Móng Cái) is an expressway in Vietnam, connecting Hanoi with the east border town of Mong Cai, towards Dongxing in China. It connects to G7511 Qinzhou–Dongxing Expressway on the Chinese side of the border.
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng is a protected area, a national park and was listed in UNESCO's world heritage in 2003. Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng is located in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts, in North Central Coast, Vietnam, about 50 km northwest of Đồng Hới, 42 km east of South China Sea from its borderline point. Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng is ...
National Route 1 (Vietnamese: Quốc lộ 1 (or abbrv.QL.1) or Đường 1), also known as National Route 1A, is the trans-Vietnam highway.The route begins at km 0 at Hữu Nghị Quan Border Gate near the China-Vietnam border, [1] runs the length of the country connecting major cities including Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City, and ends at km 2301.34 [citation needed] at Năm Căn township ...
Ninh Binh–Haiphong Expressway (Vietnamese: Đường cao tốc Ninh Bình–Hải Phòng, labelled CT.08) is a partially completed expressway in Vietnam, running for 109 km connecting Ninh Binh to Haiphong. The route connects the northern coastal provinces of Vietnam with the North-South expressway.
1863 map of Long Xuyen. In 1789, a group of explorers established a small outpost in the Tam Khe canal, naming it Dong Xuyen. Soon after, a marketplace was created and named Long Xuyên, but by the 1860s the area became better known for the Long Xuyen market than by the official outpost's name.