Quang Ngai

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Quang Ngai' is a coastal province of Central Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, it was one of the four provinces in the Army of Viet Nam I Corps tactical zone.

It is 883 km North of Ho Chi Minh City, with Binh Dinh province to the South, and Kon Tum province to the West and the East Sea to the East.

Quang Ngai is the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh.

My Lai, site of a massacre of civilians by a U.S. patrol under LT William Calley, is in the Song Ve valley of Quang Ngai province.