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Haiphong

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Hai·phong  (hfng)
A city of northeast Vietnam on the Red River delta near the Gulf of Tonkin. Established in 1874, it was shelled by the French in 1946 and heavily bombed by U.S. forces from 1965 to 1968 and again in 1972 during the Vietnam War. Population: 646,000.

Haiphong [ˈhaɪˈfɒŋ]
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(Placename) a port in N Vietnam, on the Red River delta: a major industrial centre. Pop.: 783 133 (1992 est.)
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Noun1.Haiphong - a port city in northern Vietnam; industrial center
Annam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Vietnam - a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945


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Burns had had no personal knowledge of that affair, but positive evidence of it existed in the shape of a photograph taken in Haiphong.
 
 
 
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