Đồng Đăng is a town of Cao Lộc District, Lạng Sơn Province, Vietnam. It is best known as a border town on the Vietnamese side of the main road and rail crossing to China. It is on National Route 1A. Đồng Đăng Railway Station and the town are several kilometres short of the

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border crossing. It is one of three main border crossings with China, the others being

Móng Cái Móng Cái () is a city of Quảng Ninh Province in northern Vietnam. Located on China–Vietnam border, it sits on the southern bank of Beilun River across Dongxing city of China's Guangxi Autonomous Region. It has a population of about 103,000 ...

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to the East on the coast, and

Lào Cai Lào Cai () is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Lào Cai Province. The city borders Bảo Thắng District, Bát Xát District, Sa Pa and the city of Hekou Yao Autonomous County, in Yunnan province of southwes ...

- Hekou,

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, inland 150 km northwest.''Rough Guide to China'' - Page 20 David Leffman, Simon Lewis, Jeremy Atiyah - 2003 "Vietnam has three border crossings with China - Dong Dang, 60km northeast of Hanoi; Lao Cai, 150km northwest; and the little-used Mong Cai, 200km south of Nanning. All three are open daily between 8.30am and 5pm. Vietnamese border .." A fourth crossing is the Trà Lĩnh District-

Longbang Longbang () is a town in Jingxi, Guangxi of China. , it has 12 villages under its administration. Most of its residents speak Zhuang dialects. Its main touristic sight are the Pogala underground defense works, an underground fortification built ...

, Guangxi crossing.

History

The town was the site of the Battle of Đồng Đăng in 1885. In September 1940 a group of Japanese officers, in spite of an agreement signed the 22nd, attacked Đồng Đăng and laid siege to Lam Sơn, beginning the

Japanese invasion of French Indochina The was a short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and France in northern French Indochina. Fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940; the same time as the Battle of South Guangxi in the Sino-Japanese War, which was the main ...

. In March 1945 the Japanese again attacked, and it was the site of the fiercest fighting of the March coup d'état, when a company of

Tonkinese Rifles The Tonkinese Rifles (''tirailleurs tonkinois'') were a corps of Tonkinese light infantrymen raised in 1884 to support the operations of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps. Led by French officers seconded from the marine infantry, Tonkinese riflemen f ...

and a battery of colonial artillery held off the invaders for three days before being massacred by them. In 1979, the border town became ground for heavy engagements between Chinese and Vietnamese forces during the

Sino-Vietnamese War The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a border war fought between China and Vietnam in early 1979. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam's actions against the Khmer Rouge in 1978, which ended the rule of the C ...

Geography

156 meters.

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China–Vietnam border crossings Communes of Lạng Sơn province Populated places in Lạng Sơn province Townships in Vietnam {{LangSon-geo-stub

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