This article is about the body of water. For the 1964 military incident, see Gulf of Tonkin incident. For the American political resolution, see Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. For the economic zone, see Gulf of Tonkin Economic Belt.
Gulf of Tonkin
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
北部灣 東京灣
Simplified Chinese
北部湾 东京湾
Literal meaning
Northern Gulf Gulf of Tonkin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Běibù Wān Dōngjīng Wān
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Bak1 bou6 waan1 Dung1 ging1 waan1
Southern Min
Hainanese Romanization
Pak-pōe oân Tang-kiann oân
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet
Vịnh Bắc Bộ Vịnh Bắc Phần Vịnh Đông Kinh Vịnh Bắc Việt
Chữ Hán
泳北部 泳北份 泳東京 泳北越
True color satellite image of the Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China. It has a total surface area of 126,250 km2 (48,750 sq mi). It is defined in the west and northwest by the northern coastline of Vietnam down to the Hòn La Island, in the north by China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and to the east by the Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island.
The GulfofTonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in...
The GulfofTonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964...
Provinces of China; east of northern Laos and west of the GulfofTonkin. Having the fertile delta area of the Red River, Tonkin is rich in rice production...
patrol off the coast of China in April 1962. The USS Agerholm carried out the first patrol to target North Vietnam in the GulfofTonkin in December 1962...
TonkinGulf Yacht Club was a tongue-in-cheek nickname for the United States Seventh Fleet during the Vietnam War. Throughout the War in Vietnam, the Seventh...
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thousand military advisors in 1959 to 23,000 by 1964.: 131 Following the GulfofTonkin incident in August 1964, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution that...
GulfofTonkin Resolution) on 7 August 1964, leading to a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War. It has since been alleged that the GulfofTonkin Incident...
participated extensively in the Vietnam War, and was one of the principal ships involved in the GulfofTonkin incident. Decommissioned in 1982, she is now a museum...
Wikidata Q108903453. Edwin E. Moïse (1996). TonkinGulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2300-2...
Maddox DD-731]. The misinterpreted incident took place in the GulfofTonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. President Johnson used the flawed information...
collection) Essential Matters: History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People's Army of Vietnam 1945-1975. (1994) GulfofTonkin records CIA and the Generals...
Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس, romanized: xalij-e fârs, lit. 'Gulfof Fars', pronounced [xæliːdʒe fɒːɾs]), sometimes called the Arabian Gulf (Arabic:...
USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) during the 1964 GulfofTonkin incident. On his next deployment, while commander of Carrier Air Wing Sixteen aboard the carrier...
The Gulfof Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. Null...
China Seas GulfofTonkin just east of northern Vietnam in the Pacific Ocean Gulfof Tunis in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia Gulfof Varna, Black...
Chinese: 環北部灣經濟圈; pinyin: Huán Běi bù wān jīng jì quān) also known as GulfofTonkin Economic Belt in (Vietnamese: Vành đai kinh tế vịnh Bắc Bộ) defines...
military action even without a formal declaration of war (as in: the lead up to the GulfofTonkin Resolution). In formally articulating a casus belli...
Karimata and Bangka Straits. The Gulfof Thailand and the GulfofTonkin are part of the South China Sea. $3.4 trillion of the world's $16 trillion maritime...
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