Tịnh Biên | |
Settlement Type: | Urban municipality and town |
Pushpin Map: | Vietnam |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Vietnam |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | An Giang Province |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Tịnh Biên District |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Utc Offset: | +07:00 |
Coordinates: | 10.5833°N 105°W |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | Aw |
Tịnh Biên is an urban municipality (phường thuộc Thị xã) and capital town of the Tịnh Biên District of 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.[1]