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An alley or alleyway is a narrow lane, path, or passageway, often reserved for pedestrians, which usually runs between, behind, or within buildings in towns and cities. It is also a rear access or service road ( back lane ), or a path, walk, or avenue (French allée ) in a park or garden.
Hanoi Train Street is a narrow train bypass in Hanoi which sees a twice-daily train pass close to buildings on either side of the tracks (the railroad tracks take up nearly the entirety of the "train street"). [1] The track was built by the French in 1902 and is still an active rail line as of 2023. [2] Train Street, Hanoi in 2017
On 4 July 1968 the base was subjected to a heavy People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) rocket and mortar attack followed by probes on the base perimeter resulting in 5 U.S. and 16 PAVN killed. On 23 February 1969 the base was attacked by PAVN sappers.
Outspoken Vietnamese critics of the appointment of Kerrey included Tôn Nữ Thị Ninh, a former ambassador to the European Union, who exclaimed: “the decision to appoint Bob Kerrey to be chairman of the board of the first American-style university in Vietnam strikes me as insensitive to the Vietnamese at best, and taking us for granted at ...
US Army map indicating War Zones C, D, and the Iron Triangle, circa 1965-1967. The Iron Triangle (Vietnamese:Tam Giác Sắt) was a 120 square miles (310 km 2) area in the Bình Dương Province of Vietnam, so named due to it being a stronghold of Viet Minh activity during the war.
Map showing the official extent of the Old Quarter. The official extent of the Hanoi Old Quarter has been fixed by a 1995 decision from the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction: [1] in the north it is limited by Hàng Đậu street, in the west by Phùng Hưng street, in the south by Hàng Bông street, Hàng Gai street, Cầu Gỗ street, and Hàng Thùng street, and in the east by Trần ...
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).
contains the coastal provinces in the northern half of Vietnam's narrow central part. They all stretch from the coast in the east to Laos in the west. South Central Coast (Duyên hải Nam Trung Bộ) Bình Định Bình Thuận Đà Nẵng † Khánh Hòa Ninh Thuận Phú Yên Quảng Nam Quảng Ngãi. 44,605.12 9,470,840 212.33