{"id":30317,"date":"2025-02-23T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T05:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30317"},"modified":"2025-04-10T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T04:16:59","slug":"gulf-of-tonkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gulf-of-tonkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Of Tonkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Gulf Of Tonkin Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Vietnam\u2019s foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin.<\/p>\n<h2>About Gulf Of Tonkin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is referred to as <strong>\u201cBeibu Gulf\u201d<\/strong> in Chinese and <strong>\u201cBac Bo Gulf\u201d<\/strong> in Vietnamese.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>crescent-shaped, shallow<\/strong>, semi-enclosed water body situated off <strong>South China<\/strong> and Northern Vietnam coasts in the <strong>South China Sea\u2019s northwestern portion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering regions:<\/strong> It is bordered by the <strong>northern coastline of Vietnam<\/strong> in the west and northwest; by China\u2019s <strong>Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region<\/strong> in the <strong>north;<\/strong> and by the <strong>Leizhou Peninsula<\/strong> and <strong>Hainan Island in the east<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Itis connected with the <strong>South China Sea<\/strong> via the gulf\u2019s mouth in the south and the <strong>Hainan Strait<\/strong> in the northeast.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Many rivers empty into the Gulf of Tonkin, with the <strong>Red River<\/strong> supplying the major riverine discharge along with some smaller rivers along the northern and western coastal areas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Major Ports:<\/strong> In <strong>Northern Vietnam<\/strong>, the gulf\u2019s main ports include <strong>Haiphong and Ben Thuy, <\/strong>whereas, in China, its major port is <strong>Beihai <\/strong>(Pakhoi).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gulf Of Tonkin FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> Where is the Gulf of Tonkin located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is in the northwest of the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What is meant by gulf in geography?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> A gulf is a large inlet from an ocean into a landmass, typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/vietnam-government-publishes-map-of-its-gulf-of-tonkin-baseline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Of Tonkin is a crescent-shaped, shallow, semi-enclosed water body situated off South China and Northern Vietnam coasts in the South China Sea\u2019s northwestern portion.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}