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It is developing an industrial sector for mining and processing [[manganese]]. | |||
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Revision as of 21:01, 21 December 2008
Cao Bang Province is in Vietnam's northern border with China. Bac Can and Lang Son Provinces are on its south, and Ha Giang and Tuyen Quang Provinces form the western border. It is 272km north of Hanoi on National Highway 3
Cao Bang City is its capital. On February 8, 1941, Ho Chi Minh established his headquarters in a the Coc Bo Grotto, in a mountain near Pac Bo hamlet of the province. [1] He made a statue of Karl Marx out of one of the stalagmites, and named the spring running in front of the grotto entrance after Vladimir Lenin and the highest mountain peak also after Marx.[2]
It is developing an industrial sector for mining and processing manganese.