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  2. Nakhon Phanom province - Wikipedia

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    The name Nakhon Phanom, meaning 'city of mountains', was given to the city by King Rama I. There are no mountains within Nakhon Phanom itself, the limestone mountains being concentrated in the city of Thakhek in Laos on the other side of the Mekong River. Nakhon Phanom is more accurately described as a city where mountains can be seen.

  3. Nakhon Phanom - Wikipedia

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    Aw. Nakhon Phanom ( Thai: นครพนม, pronounced [ná (ʔ).kʰɔ̄ːn pʰā.nōm]) is a town ( thesaban mueang) in northeastern Thailand, capital of Nakhon Phanom Province. The town covers tambons Nai Mueang and Nong Saeng and parts of tambons At Samat and Nong Yat, all in Mueang Nakhon Phanom District. As of 2006, it had a population ...

  4. Third Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The bridge's foundation stone was laid on 6 March 2009, and it opened for traffic on 11 November 2011. [1] [2] The bridge is 1,423 metres long and 13 metres wide. [3] The name "Third Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge" was previously also used to refer to the planned bridge from Chiang Khong, Thailand to Houayxay, Laos, but this bridge is now known as ...

  5. Wat Phra That Phanom - Wikipedia

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    Wat Phra That Phanom ( Thai: วัดพระธาตุพนม) is a Buddhist temple in the That Phanom District in the south of Nakhon Phanom Province, all within the Isan region of Thailand near the Lao border. According to local legend, the temple contains in the pagoda the Phra Uranghathat (พระอุรังคธาตุ ...

  6. United States Air Force in Thailand - Wikipedia

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    The treaty was signed the Soviet Union, South Vietnam, China, North Vietnam and the United States, among others. But North Vietnam continued moving heavy weapons into Laos to support the communist rebel Pathet Lao. Of the 10,000 North Vietnamese troops in Laos at the time of the agreement, 6,000 remained in the country in violation of the accords.

  7. Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base - Wikipedia

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    History. Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Navy Base was established in the 1950s as a RTAF base. The civil war inside Laos and fears of it spreading into Thailand led the Thai government to allow the United States to covertly use five Thai bases beginning in 1961 for the air defence of Thailand and to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos.

  8. List of crossings of the Mekong River - Wikipedia

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    The Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge, built with Australian funding and completed and opened in 1994, connecting Thailand and Laos across the Mekong River Nong Khai/Vientiane Prefecture. First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge; Mukdahan/Savannakhet. Second Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge; Nakhon Phanom/Thakhek. Third Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge

  9. Laos–Thailand border - Wikipedia

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    Laos–Thailand border. Map of the Laos-Thailand border. The Laos–Thailand border is the international border between the territory of Laos and Thailand. The border is 1,845 km (1,146 mi) in length, over half of which follows the Mekong River, and runs from the tripoint with Myanmar in the north to tripoint with Cambodia in the south. [1]

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