Yên Cư

Yên Cư is a locality in Thị Xã Tịnh Biên, An Giang province. Yên Cư is situated nearby to the locality Pô Thi, as well as near Phú Cường.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tịnh Biên and Ba Chúc.

Tịnh Biên

Town

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Tịnh Biên is an urban ward of the An Giang Province, Vietnam. Tịnh Biên was depicted in Robin Moore's fiction book The Green Berets; chapter 1 described a real-life battle during the Vietnam War in which all of the members of a United States Army Special Forces detachment were injured during the fighting. Tịnh Biên is situated 6 km north of Yên Cư.

Ba Chúc

Town

Photo: Thuydaonguyen, Public domain.

Ba Chúc is a commune of An Giang Province in Mekong Delta of Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, the village came to the attention of the American public when it was revealed in The New York Times that civilians there had been forced by ARVN officers and their American advisers to remove landmines planted by Viet Cong and NVA units. Ba Chúc is situated 8 km southwest of Yên Cư.

Yên Cư

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Yen Cu”
Location: Thị Xã Tịnh Biên, An Giang province, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude

10.55° or 10° 33′ north

Longitude

104.95° or 104° 57′ east

Elevation

115 metres (377 feet)

Open location code

7P26GWXX+XX

GeoNames ID

1560328

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