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History of Ho Chi Minh City. The battle of Cholon and Phú Thọ Racetrack began during the early hours of 31 January 1968 and continued until 11 February 1968. The attacks by Vietcong (VC) forces were one of several major attacks around Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive. The attacks were repulsed with the VC suffering heavy losses ...
Mỹ Tho ( listen ⓘ) is a city in the Tiền Giang province in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam. It has a population of approximately 169,000 in 2006 [1] and 220,000 in 2012. [2] It is the regional center of economics, education and technology. [3] The majority ethnic group is the Kinh; minority groups include the Hoa, the Cham and ...
The Capture of Mỹ Tho ( Vietnamese: Mỹ Tho) on 12 April 1861 was an important allied victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). [1] This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest.
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2,500/sq mi (970/km 2) Time zone. UTC+7 ( ICT) Châu Đốc is a city in An Giang Province, bordering Cambodia, in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the city had a population of 101,765, and cover an area of 105.29 square kilometres (40.65 sq mi). [1] [2]
t. e. 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 centrally-controlled municipalities (the other first-level division, in addition to provinces) are subdivided into ...
Chợ Lớn ( listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸 ), usually anglicized as " Cholon " in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market. Chợ Lớn consists of the western half of District 5 as well as several adjoining neighborhoods in District 6 ...
The People's Army of Vietnam Special Forces Arms ( Vietnamese: Binh chủng Đặc công, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam ), officially the Special Operation Force Arms or Special Operation Arms, [1] is the elite combat armed service of the People's Army of Vietnam, led by the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army. It is uniquely ...