A circle of latitude, on the Earth, is an imaginary east-west circle connecting all locations that share a given latitude. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.... that is 17 degrees
Degree (angle)
A degree , usually denoted by ? , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1/360 of a Turn ; one degree is equivalent to p/180 radians.... north
True north
True north is the direction along the earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole.True north usually differs from magnetic north pole and grid north .... of the Earth's
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather... equatorial plane
Equator
The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the Plane perpendicular to the Earth's rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass.... .
The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.... (see below). >
Vietnam The Seventeenth parallel was the provisional military demarcation line between North
North Vietnam
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic was an effective state all over Vietnam from 1945 until the partition of Vietnam in 1954.... and South Vietnam
South Vietnam
South Vietnam refers to an internationally recognized state which governed Vietnam south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone until 1975. Its capital was Saigon and its origin can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam.... established by the Geneva Accords of 1954
Geneva Conference (1954)
The Geneva Conference was a conference between many countries that agreed to end hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam.... .
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A circle of latitude, on the Earth, is an imaginary east-west circle connecting all locations that share a given latitude. A location's position along a circle of latitude is given by its longitude.... that is 17 degrees
Degree (angle)
A degree , usually denoted by ? , is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1/360 of a Turn ; one degree is equivalent to p/180 radians.... north
True north
True north is the direction along the earth's surface towards the geographic North Pole.True north usually differs from magnetic north pole and grid north .... of the Earth's
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather... equatorial plane
Equator
The equator is the intersection of the Earth's surface with the Plane perpendicular to the Earth's rotation and containing the Earth's center of mass.... .
The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east.... (see below).
The Prime Meridian is the meridian at which longitude is defined to be 0?.The Prime Meridian and the opposite 180th meridian , which the International Date Line generally follows, form a great circle that divides the Earth into the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemispheres.... and heading eastwards, the parallel 17° north passes through:
The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
Farasan Islands is a large coral island group in the Red Sea, belonging to Saudi Arabia. It is located some 40 km offshore from Jizan, in the far southwestern part of the country.... of
The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
The Bay of Bengal is a Headlands and bays that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered by India and Sri Lanka to the West, Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal to the North , and Myanmar, southern part of Thailand and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the East....
The Paracel Islands are a group of small islands and reefs in the South China Sea administered by the People's Republic of China but also claimed by Vietnam....
Luzon is the largest and most economically and politically important island in the Philippines and one of the three island groups in the country, with Visayas and Mindanao being the other two....
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea east and north of the Philippines occupying an estimated surface area of 90, 000 mi? on the western part of the North Pacific Ocean....
Guguan is an island in the Northern Mariana Islands island chain and is 130 miles north of Saipan. It measures only 3.87 km? but contains two volcanoes, one of which is active.... and Sarigan
Sarigan
Sarigan is a small island in the Northern Mariana Islands chain. It is the result of a Holocene Era stratovolcano with no known historic eruptions, although a swarm of volcano-tectonic earthquakes took place here in the summer of 2005....
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean situated in the mid-latitudes of the Western Hemisphere, bounded to the south and west by the Americas, with the North Atlantic Ocean proper to the northeast and the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest....
Antigua is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda.... island
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
Santo Ant?o , or Sontonton in Cape Verdean Creole, is the westernmost and largest of the Barlavento islands of Cape Verde. The nearest main island is S?o Vicente, Cape Verde to the southeast, separated by a channel named Canal de S?o Vicente.... island
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
Vietnam
The Seventeenth parallel was the provisional military demarcation line between North
North Vietnam
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic was an effective state all over Vietnam from 1945 until the partition of Vietnam in 1954.... and South Vietnam
South Vietnam
South Vietnam refers to an internationally recognized state which governed Vietnam south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone until 1975. Its capital was Saigon and its origin can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam.... established by the Geneva Accords of 1954
Geneva Conference (1954)
The Geneva Conference was a conference between many countries that agreed to end hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam.... . The demarcation line did not exactlly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Ben Hai River
Ben Hai River
The Ben Hai River is a river in central Vietnam which became an important landmark in the partition of the country into a North Vietnam and a South Vietnam along the Seventeenth parallel by the Geneva Conference of 1954.... in Quang Tri Province
Quang Tri Province
Quang Tri is a Provinces of Vietnam in the Bac Trung Bo of Vietnam, next to the former capital of Hu?. This is where the southernmost Chinese commandery of Rinan was centred during the Later Han dynasty .... to the village of Bo Ho Su and from there due west to the Laos
Laos
Laos , officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and People's Republic of China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south, and Thailand to the west.... -Vietnam border.
In 1976 the demarcation line was made redundant as Vietnam was unified following the surrender of the South Vietnamese government.
The 16th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 16 degree true north of the Earth equator.After World War II, the parallel divided Indochina into Chinese and British controlled zones....
The 18th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 18 degree true north of the Earth equator.Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 18? north passes through:...
The Partition of Vietnam was the establishment of the Seventeenth parallel as the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone in 1954, splitting Vietnam into halves after the First Indochina War....
