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| Location : |
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia .
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| Land Boudaries Border Country :
| Cambodia 1,228 km, China 1,281 km, Laos 2,130 km .
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| More informations on the bottom :
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INFORMATIONS MAPS
| Land Boudaries Total :
| 4,639 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season (mid-October to mid-March) .
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| Area Total :
| 329,560 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 325,360 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 4,200 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly larger than New Mexico .
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| Coast Line :
| 3,444 km (excludes islands) .
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| Railways Total :
| 2,600 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 93,300 km .
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| Waterways :
| 17,702 km (5,000 km navigable by vessels up to 1.8 m draft) (2004) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Cam Ranh, Da Nang, Haiphong, Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Long, Quy Nhon, Nha Trang, Vinh, Vung Tau .
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Map Ho Chi Minh 1960,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1961,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1962,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1963,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1964,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1965,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1966,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1967,
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Map Ho Chi Minh 1973,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1974,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1975,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1976,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1977,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1978,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1979,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1980,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1981,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1982,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1983,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1984,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1985,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1986,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1987,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1988,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1989,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1990,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1991,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1992,
Map Ho Chi Minh 1993,
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Map Ho Chi Minh 2002,
Map Ho Chi Minh 2003,
Map Ho Chi Minh 2004,
Map Ho Chi Minh 2005,
Map Ho Chi Minh 2006,
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Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese:) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. Under the name Prey Nokor (Khmer: ), it was the main port of Cambodia, before being conquered by the Vietnamese in the 16th century. Formerly under the name Saigon, it was the capital of the French colony of Cochinchina, and later of the former state of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. The city center is situated on the banks of the Saigon River, 60 km far from the South China Sea. [1]
The city was known by its original Khmer inhabitants as Prey Nokor (). Prey Nokor means "forest city", or "forest land" in Khmer (Prey = "forest"; Nokor = "city, land", from Sanskrit nagara). The name Prey Nokor is still the name used in Cambodia today, as well as the name used by the Khmer Krom minority living in the delta of the Mekong.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)
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