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11 unusual facts about Vietnam


16th parallel north

After World War II, the parallel divided Vietnam into Chinese and British controlled zones; this eventually formed the Communist North Vietnam and the anti-communist South Vietnam.

17th parallel north

The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam (see below).

First Battle of Lang Son

The First Battle of Lang Son was fought during the Sino-Vietnamese War, days after the Chinese advanced 15 to 20 kilometers deep into the northern provinces of Vietnam.

Hanoi Vocational Education and Training Company

The company, licensed under the Vietnamese Ministry of Education, has its main office in Hanoi, Vietnam and is a member of Vietnamese Vocational Training Association (VVTA).

Nguyễn Chích

Nguyễn Chích (阮隻) also Nguyễn Chính (1382–1448) was an ethnic-Mường general and advisor of Annamese national leader Lê Lợi.

Nha Trang Airport

Nha Trang Airport may refer to the 2 airports serving Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam.

Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre

This centre is specializing in researching of sciences from tropical biology, medicine, environmental pollution and treatments such dioxin effects in Vietnam.

This centre was established in 1988 by an agreement between the Ministry of National Defense (Vietnam) and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Vietnam, Long Time Coming

Vietnam, Long Time Coming is a documentary released in 1998 by Kartemquin Films.

Vietnam: The Last Battle

Coal miner Pham Ngo Duc describes the massive American bombing, which, according to Pilger, journalists James Cameron and Harrison Salisbury, were vilified for reporting.

Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War

The series was released on videocassette format by Embassy and won a National Education Association award for best world documentary.


17th parallel

Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone, between North and South Vietnam (1954–76) at approximately the 17th parallel north

Aethriamanta aethra

In April 2011, this species was discovered in the mangrove forest of U Minh Thuong National Park, Kiên Giang Province, southern Vietnam.

An-My Le

An-My Lê (born 1960, Saigon, Vietnam) is an American photographer, and professor at Bard College.

Andrés Baiz

Satan is the first feature Baiz released in June 2007, starring Mexican actor Damián Alcázar, is based on the book by Mario Mendoza, which in turn is based on the events at the restaurant where the Pozzeto Bogota 5 December 1986, a veteran of the Vietnam War known as Campo Elias Delgado massacred several people who were on the scene after murdering his mother.

Bánh phu thê

Bánh phu thê (literally "husband and wife cake") is a Vietnamese dessert made from rice with mung beans stuffing wrapped in a box made of pandan leaves.

Bark paper

Dó paper, a paper traditionally produced in many villages in Vietnam.

Bruce Faulkner Caputo

In May 2010, Caputo was compared to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam.

Donald E. Ballard

Sent to Vietnam, Ballard served as a corpsman in the Quang Tri province with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (Mike 3/4) of the 3rd Marine Division.

Dwight Armstrong

Dwight Alan Armstrong (August 29, 1951 – June 20, 2010) was an American anti-Vietnam War activist who was one of four persons involved in the August 24, 1970, Sterling Hall bombing on the campus University of Wisconsin–Madison, in an act of political protest against the University's research efforts on behalf of the United States armed forces.

Fort Logan National Cemetery

First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (January 29, 1932 – February 26, 1967) - (Vietnam) U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.

Gary Rader

In December 1967, he took part in an interview which was broadcast on WAMU, the second part of a series on the Vietnam War; the first part's interview subject had been General William Westmoreland.

Henry Corra

The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan (2010, 77 minutes, Henry Corra) Private McKinley Nolan vanished forty years ago in Vietnam on the Cambodian frontier.

John J. Hennessey

As a brigadier general he served as assistant division commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, then became assistant division commander of the 101st Airborne Division, deploying with that unit to Vietnam as its commander in 1970.

John Roland Burke

Adelbert Waldron, who held the record for the most confirmed kills in U.S. military history, with 109 kills in Vietnam

Kucong language

Kucong, or Black Lahu, is spoken in the following villages of Ca Lăng Commune, Mường Tè District, Lai Châu Province, Vietnam (Edmondson 2002).

Lindzay Chan

As a long working partner of Hong Kong film director Evans Chan, she was named Best Actress at the Golden Horse Film Festival for her performance in To Liv(e) (1992) for the role of Rubie, who writes a letter to Swedish actress Liv Ullmann against her criticism of Hong Kong's policy in expelling Vietnamese boat people.

Lisa Law

She carried her camera wherever she went, to the Human Be-In and the anti-Vietnam march in San Francisco, Monterey Pop Festival, and meetings of The Diggers.

Lý Nam Đế

Upon resignation of his post he gathered the local nobility and tribes within the Red River Valley (North Vietnam) mobilized the imperial troops and naval fleet of Jiaozhou and successfully expelled the Liang administration and led the insurrection that ended in 543.

Mang language

In Lai Châu Province, Vietnam, Mang is spoken by 2,200 people in the districts of Sìn Hồ, Mường Tè, Phong Thổ, and in other nearby areas (Gao 2003:1), including in Nặm Ban Township, Sìn Hồ District, Lai Châu Province.

Neil Sheehan

Sheehan eventually completed the book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988, published by Random House and edited by Robert Loomis).

Nicholas Rowe

James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, (1938–1989), American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War

Northern and southern Vietnam

During French colonialism, the French divided the country into three parts, directly ruling over Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) while establishing protectorates in Annam (central Vietnam) and Tonkin (northern Vietnam).

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Professor Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan, Vietnam's current Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education & Training, is also an alumnus of the Technical University.

Paris By Night 90

An introductory speech was presented by Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, discussing the resilience, strength, care and contributions of the Vietnamese woman in Vietnam and abroad; as well, she wore the traditional Vietnamese dress, an Ao Dai.

Paul Seitz

Men of Dignity: The Montagnards of South Vietnam, Bar-le-Duc, France: Imprimerie Saint-Paul

Pig-tailed macaque

Northern Pig-tailed Macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)

Qu Yuan

The countries around China, such as Vietnam and Korea, also celebrate variations of this Dragon Boat Festival as part of their shared cultural heritage.

Quy Nhơn Port

Quy Nhơn Port is the most accessible major port not only for Bình Định Province, but also for the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum and even parts of Laos and Cambodia such as Attapeu Province and Ratanakiri Province.

Raymond Schlemmer

In late 1937, French Scouting sent Scoutmaster Schlemmer to the Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese areas of Indochina to oversee the setting up of the Fédération Indochinoise des Associations du Scoutisme (FIAS, Indochinese Federation of Scouting Associations) in all three regions.

Shannon McRandle

Shannon Lynn Jones was born on August 28, 1969 in Killeen, Texas, US, to Leonard Jones (stationed at Fort Hood, drafted into the army for the Vietnam War) and Barbara Kubiszewski Walsh.

Sherwood Lett

In 1954, he became the head of the Canadian group on the International Control Commission, the international force established in 1954 that oversaw the implementation of the Geneva Accords that ended the First Indochina War with the Partition of Vietnam.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.

T. aureus

Teinopalpus aureus, the golden kaiserihind, a butterfly species found in China and possibly Vietnam

The Dolans

He also served in the United States Navy in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 and holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Boston College.

The Last Hunter

Director Antonio Margheriti decided to make a Vietnam War film due to the success of the American film The Deer Hunter.

The Word for World Is Forest

A copy of The Word for World Is Forest is visible at the bedside of the character Joker in a scene set in Vietnam in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket (this is an anachronism as the movie takes place in and around 1968, while The Word for World Is Forest was published in 1976).

Thổ people

The Thổ ethnic group (also Keo, Mon, Cuoi, Ho, Tay Poong) inhabits the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, mainly Nghệ An province southwest of Hanoi.

USS Maddox

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron (Gulf of Tonkin Incident), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Resolution).

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 was a scheduled Vietnam Airlines flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport.

Vietnam Requiem

Vietnam Requiem was an ABC News Closeup Series television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord.

Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League

The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League believes in politically pressuring the Communist government of Vietnam to reach it goals so the Vietnamese people would have the opportunity to choose a Constitutional Monarchy government in an election, which does not violate the U.S. Neutrality Act.

Vsevolod Bazhenov

In 1962 Bazhenov embarked on a working voyage on the ship "Eugene Nikishin", from Leningrad to Vladivostok around Europe and Asia with stops in ports of Gibraltar, Suez, Singapore and Vietnam.

When I Came Home

When I Came Home is a 2006 documentary directed by Dan Lohaus about homeless veterans in the United States - from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from the Iraq War.

William Cadman

William Cadman (Rotherhithe 4 April 1883 - Dalat, 7 December 1948) was an English missionary in Vietnam with his wife Grace.

William Strauss

Their second book, Reconciliation After Vietnam (1978) was said to have influenced then-president Jimmy Carter to issue a blanket pardon to Vietnam draft resisters.

Wong shadow

Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.

Yan Can Cook

Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.