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Friendship Pass ( traditional Chinese: 友誼關; simplified Chinese: 友谊关; Vietnamese: Hữu Nghị Quan ), also commonly known by its older name Ải Nam Quan ( traditional Chinese: 隘南關; simplified Chinese: 隘南关 ), is a pass near the China-Vietnam border, between China's Guangxi and Vietnam 's Lạng Sơn Province. The pass ...
Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV ( French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-] ), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is an American oilfield services company. [3] [4] As of 2022, it is both the world's largest offshore drilling company and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor by revenue.
Central Vietnam. Central Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Trung Bộ or miền Trung ), also known as Middle Vietnam or The Middle, formerly known as Trung Phần by South Vietnam, Trung Kỳ and Annam under French Indochina, is one of the three geographical regions within Vietnam . The name Trung Bộ was used by the emperor Bảo Đại when he ...
Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Nội ⓘ) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.As evident by the literal translation of its name – 'inside the river' – portions of Hanoi's border are delineated by the Red and Black Rivers.
By mid-1956, with U.S. aid, a 7,200-foot (2,190 m) runway had been built; the airfield near Saigon became known as South Vietnam's principal international gateway. During the Vietnam War (or Second Indochina War), Tan Son Nhut Air Base (then using the alternative spelling Tân Sơn Nhứt ) was an important facility for both the U.S. Air Force ...
Long An Province was the gateway to the Mekong Delta the "rice-basket" of South Vietnam, in addition to producing over 280,000 tons of rice per year itself. The province contained vital transport links namely Route 4 which connected Saigon to An Xuyên Province and the Vàm Cỏ Đông and Vàm Cỏ Tay rivers which flowed southeast from the ...
The branch colours that form the piping of the shoulder boards are as follows: Army (ground forces): red. Navy: dark blue/navy blue. Air Force/Air defence: azure. Border Defence: green. Coast Guard: blue. The shoulder insignia ranks are in gold shoulder boards in the Ground Forces, Air Force and Navy. Border Defense Force's ranks are in dark ...
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( SRV ), 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. Vietnam shares land borders with China to the north, and Laos and ...