17th parallel north
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The 17th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 17 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. The parallel is particularly significant in the history of Vietnam (see below).

Geography

Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 17° north passes through:

Country, territory or sea	Notes
Mali
Niger
Chad
Sudan
Eritrea
Red Sea	Including the Farasan Islands of  Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Oman
Arabian Sea
India
Bay of Bengal
Myanmar (Burma)
Thailand
Laos
Vietnam	See below
South China Sea	Passing through the disputed Paracel Islands
Philippines	Island of Luzon
Pacific Ocean	Philippine Sea
Northern Mariana Islands	Passing between the islands of Guguan and Sarigan
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Guatemala
Belize
Caribbean Sea
Antigua and Barbuda	Antigua island
Atlantic Ocean
Cape Verde	Santo Antão island
Atlantic Ocean
Mauritania
Mali

Vietnam

The Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The demarcation line did not exactlly coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Ben Hai River in Quang Tri Province to the village of Bo Ho Su and from there due west to the Laos-Vietnam border. In 1976 the demarcation line was made redundant as Vietnam was unified following the surrender of the South Vietnamese government.

See also

• Partition of Vietnam

External Links

• [1], 17th parallel north at MSN maps

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