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Lộc Bình is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. In 2003, the district had a population of 80,517. [1] The district covers an area of 998 km². The district capital is Na Dương. [1]
Lộc Ninh is a township and the capital of Lộc Ninh district, Bình Phước province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. [3]During the Vietnam War, the 1967 "First Battle of Loc Ninh" and the 1972 "Battle of Loc Ninh", took place in Bình Phước Province, near the Cambodian border at the northern end of Highway 13, north of the presently named Ho Chi Minh City (né Saigon).
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).
With the northern provinces of South Vietnam under their control, PAVN forces turned their attention to the Cambodian border region north of Saigon, which formed part of the ARVN III Corps Tactical Zone. During the offensive, the objective of the PAVN/VC in the zone was the capture of An Lộc, capital of Bình Long
Loc Ninh is a town located in Binh Long Province, approximately 9 miles (14 km) east of the Cambodian border and 70 miles (110 km) north of Saigon. [3] As a part of his strategic preparations for the Tet Offensive in early 1968, General Võ Nguyên Giáp began attacking isolated allied bases in the fall of 1967 in hopes he could draw US and Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces outside ...
Bình Long is a town of Bình Phước Province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2018, the district had a population of 105.520 and an area of 126.28 km 2. The district capital lies at An Lộc ward. [1] The town's former name is An Lộc. It is located approximately 90 km north of Ho Chi Minh City with a population of 8,599 (2009).
An Lộc is the capital of Bình Long Province located northwest of Military Region III.During North Vietnam's Easter Offensive (known in Vietnam as the Nguyen Hue Offensive) of 1972, An Lộc was at the centre of the PAVN strategy, its location on Route QL-13 near Base Area 708 in Cambodia allowed safeguarding supplies based out of a "neutral" location in order to reduce exposure to U.S. bombing.
Lộc Ninh is a rural district of Bình Phước province in the Southeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 102,291. [ 1 ] The district covers an area of 862.98 km 2 .