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Bảy Núi
Bảy Núi (, Chữ Nôm: 罷𡶀, ''seven mountains''), also known by the Sino-Vietnamese version Thất Sơn (, Chữ Hán: 七山), is a range of small mountains located in the Tri Tôn and Tịnh Biên districts in Vietnam's An Giang Province, very close to the Cambodian border. The 710-metre ''Thiên Cấm Sơn'' (the Cấm Mountains) is the highest among the mountainous region of Thất Sơn and it is the highest peak in the whole Mekong Delta region. Endowed with such spectacular mountainous terrain, Núi Cấm is known as the "Đà Lạt of the Mekong Delta". Before reaching the Seven Mountain, tourists have to ascend Ba The mountain. The mountain is approximately 200 meters above sea level and by the poetic Thoai Ha River, there is home to many species of monkeys, squirrels, herons, and wild birds Peaks The common names of the seven mountains in the Thất Sơn range are: * Núi Cấm (Thiên Cẩm Sơn) "Forbidden Mountain". The mountain is 716 meters in he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains In Vietnam
Vietnam is located on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula and occupies about 331,211.6 square kilometers, of which about 25% was under cultivation in 1987. It borders the Gulf of Tonkin, Gulf of Thailand, and Pacific Ocean, along with China, Laos, and Cambodia. The elongated roughly ''S'' shaped country has a north-to-south distance of and is about wide at the narrowest point. With a coastline of , excluding islands, Vietnam claims as the limit of its territorial waters, an additional as a contiguous customs and security zone. It has an exclusive economic zone of with . The boundary with Laos was settled on both an ethnic and geographical basis between the rulers of Vietnam and Laos in the mid-seventeenth century. The Annamite Range as a reference, was formally defined by a delimitation treaty signed in 1977 and ratified in 1986. The frontier with Cambodia, defined at the time of French annexation of the western part of the Mekong Delta in 1867, remained es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
