VIETNAM’S TERRAIN
The terrain of Vietnam is sometimes
beautiful, sometimes desolate, seldom friendly and often cruel.
The Annamite Mountain chain stretches
nearly the entire length of Vietnam and guides the multitude of rivers and
streams that flow to the South China Sea, and in the south-west to the Gulf of
Siam.
The I and II Corps areas lie in the
region known as the Central Highlands and possess the varied terrain features of
mountains, jungle, sand dunes, plains and deltas.
The entire coastal area is predominantly rice paddies while the
mountains, because of the vast and dense jungles that cover them, are among the
most rugged and impenetrable in the world.