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220,055 ha (849.64 sq mi) Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng ( Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi. The park borders the Hin Namno National ...
Lê Hoàn (10 August 941 – 18 March 1005), posthumously title Lê Đại Hành, was the third ruler of Đại Việt kingdom, ruling from 981 to 1005, and founder of the Early Lê dynasty. He first served as the generalissimo commanding a ten-thousand man army of the Đại Việt court under the reign of Đinh Bộ Lĩnh. Following the death ...
Phong Nha Cave. Phong Nha Cave is a cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. It is 7,729 metres long and contains 14 grottoes, as well as a 13,969 metre underground river. While scientists have surveyed 44.5 kilometres of passages, tourists are only allowed to explore the first ...
Coordinates. 20°15′24″N 105°53′47″E. / 20.25667°N 105.89639°E / 20.25667; 105.89639. Location of Tràng An Scenic Landscape Complex in Vietnam. Tràng An is a scenic area near Ninh Bình, Vietnam renowned for its boat cave tours. [1] On 23 June 2014, at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee in Doha, the Trang An ...
Phong Nha. / 17.61194°N 106.30528°E / 17.61194; 106.30528. Phong Nha is a township ( thị trấn) in Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast Region of Vietnam. The township was formerly the rural commune of Sơn Trạch . Phong Nha township is located by Son River and contains part of Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng ...
Tôn Đức Thắng (August 20, 1888 – March 30, 1980) was the second president of Vietnam under the leadership of General Secretary Lê Duẩn. The position of president is ceremonial and Tôn was never a major policymaker or even a member of the Politburo, Vietnam's ruling council. He served as president, initially of North Vietnam from ...
Khiem's oracular poetry has been compared to that of Nostradamus. It contains the earliest known use of the word "Vietnam." Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm ( chữ Hán: 阮 秉 謙; 1491–1585) was a Vietnamese administrator, confucianist, poet, prophet and later a saint of the Cao Dai religion and of the new religious movement known as School of ...
Description. Formed in Carboniferous / Permian limestone, the main Sơn Đoòng cave passage is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume – 3.84 × 10 7 m 3 (1.36 × 10 9 cu ft), according to BRCA expedition leader Howard Limbert. It is more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) high and 150 metres (490 ft) wide.