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Laos–Vietnam border. Map of the Laos-Vietnam border. Laotian and Vietnamese boundary markers. The Laos–Vietnam border is the international border between the territory of Laos and Vietnam. The border is 2,161 km (1,343 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with China in the north to tripoint with Cambodia in the south.
Laos, [e] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), [f] is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia [g].At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest. [12]
Geography of Laos. Laos is a country in and the only landlocked nation in mainland Southeast Asia, northeast of Thailand and west of Vietnam. It covers approximately 236,800 square kilometers in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula and it is surrounded by Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Geography of Vietnam. Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometres (127,881.5 sq mi), of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia.
Laos was a site of the Ho Chi Minh trail used by North Vietnam. [2] Laos was also bombed by South Vietnamese and American forces due to North Vietnamese occupation of eastern Laos. [3] Laos contains Vietnamese soldiers stationed there since Vietnam and Laos signed a treaty to create a united sphere and to support repair after the Laotian Civil ...
Vietnam. Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west and the Pacific Ocean to the east. It includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand ...
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The road was built to connect the towns along the Mekong River in present-day Laos over the Annamite Range to the Vietnamese coast. With the partition of Vietnam following the First Indochina War, Route 9 was the northernmost West-East road in South Vietnam and ran roughly parallel to the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. Map of the Demilitarized Zone