Cao Bang Province

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Cao Bang Province is in Vietnam's northern border with China. Bac Can and Lang Son Provinces are on its south, and Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang Provinces form the western border. It is 272km north of Hanoi on National Highway 3

Cao Bang City is its capital. On February 8, 1941, Ho Chi Minh established his headquarters in a the Coc Bo Grotto, in a mountain near Pac Bo hamlet of the province. [1] He made a statue of Karl Marx out of one of the stalagmites, and named the spring running in front of the grotto entrance after Vladimir Lenin and the highest mountain peak also after Marx.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Patti, Archimedes L. A. (1980). Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross. University of California Press. , p. 524
  2. ↑ Sinh cafe Travel Vietnam Opentour, Cao Bang
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