Đông Khê is a

township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...

() and capital of Thạch An District,

Cao Bằng Province Cao Bằng is a province of the Northeast region of Vietnam. The province has borders with Hà Giang, Tuyên Quang, Bắc Kạn, and Lạng Sơn provinces within Vietnam. It also has a common international border with Guangxi province in Chi ...

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

. The township was the site of the

Battle of Đông Khê The Battle of Route Coloniale 4, also called the Autumn-Winter Border Campaign (''Chiến Dịch Biên Giới Thu Đông'') by the Viet Minh, was a battle of the First Indochina War. It took place along Route Coloniale 4 (RC4, also known as Hi ...

.Nicolas Vidal Les jungles perdues: regard sur des montagnards du Laos et ...- 2003 "La bataille de la RC 4 ne fut pas un combat classique mais une série d' embuscades meurtrières, d'attaques et de contre- attaques, de poursuites acharnées, le tout dans les jungles et les calcaires autour de la ville de Dong Khé, où les ..."

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Populated places in Cao Bằng province District capitals in Vietnam Townships in Vietnam {{CaoBang-geo-stub