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| Chang Jiang |
the longest river of Asia, flowing from Tibet through central China into the East China Sea; Chang; Yangtze. |
| Chang Jiang River |
the longest river of Asia, flowing from Tibet through central China into the East China Sea; Chang; Yangtze. |
| China Sea |
see "East China Sea," "South China Sea." |
| Da Nang |
a port city in central Vietnam on the China Sea, site of an important U.S. military base during the Vietnam War. |
| Gulf of Thailand |
an arm of the South China Sea that borders Thailand, Cambodia, and small parts of Vietnam and Malaysia. |
| Gulf of Tonkin |
a shallow arm of the South China Sea lying between Vietnam and China, purportedly the site of North Vietnamese attacks on US ships that precipitated the United States' entry into the Vietnam War in 1964. |
| Indochina |
a large Southeast Asian peninsula south of China, between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. |
| Philippines |
a Pacific island country across the South China Sea from Vietnam; Philippine Islands; Republic of the Philippines. |
| Thu Bon River |
a river that flows from the western mountainous areas of Vietnam to the East China Sea, by way of the city of Hôi An. |
| typhoon |
a violent tropical hurricane or cyclone that occurs in the western Pacific area and the China Sea. |
| Vietnam |
a Southeast Asian country in eastern Indochina on the South China Sea; Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
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