Everything about Tonkin Gulf totally explained
The
Gulf of Tonkin, in
Vietnamese:
Vịnh Bắc Bộ or in
Chinese:
Beibu Wan is an arm of the
South China Sea. Covering an area of 126,250 km², the gulf borders Vietnam on the northwest, west and southwest. The Chinese mainland lies to the north while the Island of
Hainan forms the eastern limits of the gulf. The gulf is notably shallow (less than 60 meters deep).
Haiphong, Vietnam and
Beihai, China are the chief ports. Numerous small islands are located in the gulf, most of which are concentrated in the northwestern gulf. Of note are larger islands of
Bach Long Vi and
Cat Ba of Vietnam and
Weizhou of
China. The
Red River is the main river flowing into the Gulf.
The name
Tonkin, written 東京 in
Chinese characters and
Đông Kinh in Vietnamese, means 'Eastern Capital', and is the former
toponym for
Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. (Incidentally, the same Chinese characters are used to write "
Tokyo", capital of Japan.)
In August of
1964,
United States President
Lyndon B. Johnson incorrectly claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American
destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Although there was a first attack, allegedly in response to U.S. equipped and orchestrated South Vietnam's commando raids on the coast, claims of a second attack were later proven to be unfounded. Known today as the
Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this led to the
open involvement of the
United States in the
Vietnam War, with the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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