Seventeenth parallel

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The Seventeenth parallel (Vietnamese: vĩ tuyến 17) is the provisional military demarcation line established in Vietnam by the Geneva Accords of 1954. The line did not actually coincide with the 17th parallel but ran south of it, approximately along the Ben Hai River to the village of Bo Ho Su and from there due west to the Laos-Vietnam border. But in 1976 the demarcation line was made redundant as Vietnam was unified following the surrender of the South Vietnamese government.