Kon Tum is the capital city of Kon Tum Province in

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. It is located inland in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, near the borders of

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and

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History

After the

People's Army of Vietnam The People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN; vi, Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam, QĐNDVN), also recognized as the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) or the Vietnamese Army (), is the military force of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the armed wi ...

invaded

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on March 30, 1972 during the

Easter Offensive The Easter Offensive, also known as the 1972 spring–summer offensive ('' vi, Chiến dịch Xuân–Hè 1972'') by North Vietnam, or the red fiery summer (') as romanticized in South Vietnamese literature, was a military campaign conducted b ...

, two divisions attempted to capture Kon Tum, but failed. In March 1975, however, Kon Tum was overrun during the

Ho Chi Minh Campaign The 1975 spring offensive ( vi, chiến dịch mùa Xuân 1975), officially known as the general offensive and uprising of spring 1975 ( vi, Tổng tiến công và nổi dậy mùa Xuân 1975) was the final North Vietnamese campaign in the Vie ...

and large numbers of refugees were forced to flee east to the south central coast. Kon Tum has several vestiges of the French colonial period, as well as several tribal villages directly in the suburbs of the Vietnamese-reconstructed town. Among the town's landmarks, there is a

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on discrete stilts and a large French-built seminary which hosts a small museum on local hill tribes. French

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presence in Kon Tum traces back to 1851.

Climate

Kon Tum has a

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of ...

( Köppen ''Aw'') with a wet season from April to November, a dry season from November to April, and consistently very warm to hot temperatures with high to oppressive humidity year-round.

References

External links

Kontum government home page
(Vietnamese)
The Battle of Kontum
* Provincial capitals in Vietnam Districts of Kon Tum province Populated places in Kon Tum province Cities in Vietnam {{KonTum-geo-stub