Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, in Vietnam's north-central coast region about 500 kilometers south of Hanoi, protects one of the world's two largest karst regions, with roughly 300 caves and grottoes set within the limestone forest of the Annamite Range. Its core zone covers about 858 square kilometers, within a wider UNESCO World Heritage Site of some 217,447 hectares inscribed in 2003 for its geological significance. The park contains Son Doong Cave, considered the largest cave in the world, with a single chamber exceeding five kilometers in length, and its karst landscape, among the oldest in Asia, includes formations dating back some 400 million years to the Paleozoic era. Tropical forest covers about 96 percent of the protected area, sheltering rare primates, endangered orchids and species such as the saola.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyPeople's Committee of Quảng Trị Province 1 Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Vietnam Provincial People Committee 1 Sources
1. Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park (Wikipedia)
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is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa Commune of central
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2001
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Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng, Vietnamese pronunciation: [vɯ̀ən kʷǒk.ʑā fɔ̄ŋ.ɲā kɛ̂.ɓàŋ]) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa Commune of central Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi.
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Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng (Vietnamese: Vườn quốc gia Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng, Vietnamese pronunciation: [vɯ̀ən kʷǒk.ʑā fɔ̄ŋ.ɲā kɛ̂.ɓàŋ]) is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa Commune of central Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam, about 500 km south of Hanoi.
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People's Committee of Quảng Trị Province
Wikipedia infobox, governing_body field
People's Committee of Quảng Trị Province
entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
Its core zone covers about 858 square kilometers, within a wider UNESCO World Heritage Site of some 217,447 hectares inscribed in 2003 for its geological significance.
Wikipedia infobox, governance-type government
People's Committee of Quảng Trị Province
Part Of: Vietnam, Lead paragraph
Commune of central Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam,
On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names Vietnam; continent follows from the atlas record for Vietnam
Commune of central Quảng Trị Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam
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