Map and Geography
Vietnam is shaped in a long "S" stretching for 1000 miles from China in the north to the Gulf of Thailand in the south. The country's land area including water is about 127,000 square miles. It is a country of tropical lowlands, hills, and densely forested highlands, with level land covering no more than 20 percent of the area. Three quarters of Vietnam is made up of mountains and hills. Because of the vast range of latitudes and altitudes, Vietnam's climate is very diverse, although the entire country lies in the tropics and subtropics. US soldiers had lots of trouble fighting in Vietnam due to climate and geography. The Americans weren't used to the humid weather, jungle, mountains, precipitation, and lay of the land. Therefore the whole war they were at a disadvantage due to not knowing the land like the Vietnamese soldiers themselves.By:Evan Sheridan
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