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Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in the Isan region, as well as in smaller communities in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar. Culturally and linguistically, the Lao are closely related to ...
Laos. Vietnam. Laos–Vietnam relations (Vietnamese: Quan hệ Lào – Việt Nam) (Laotian: ການພົວພັນ ລາວ-ຫວຽດນາມ) are the traditional friendship, special solidarity and comprehensive cooperation from history to the present between the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Socialist Republic of Vietnam ...
When Laos was a French protectorate, the French colonial administration brought many Vietnamese people to Laos to work as civil servants. As a result, ethnic Vietnamese became the majority of large urban centers in Laos. For example, during the 1940s, ethnic Vietnamese made up of 72% and 85% of the population in Savannakhet and Thakhek ...
Laos, [d] officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), [e] is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia. 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]
After the fall of South Vietnam to communist forces in April 1975, the Pathet Lao with the backing of North Vietnam were able to take total power with little resistance. On 2 December 1975, the king was forced to abdicate his throne and the Lao People's Democratic Republic was established.
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
The Laotian Civil War was waged between the Communist Pathet Lao and the Royal Lao Government from 23 May 1959 to 2 December 1975. The Kingdom of Laos was a covert theater during the Vietnam War with both sides receiving heavy external support in a proxy war between the global Cold War superpowers. The fighting also involved the North ...
The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State, Myanmar. Tai Dam means "Black Tai". This name comes ...