Fansipan Vietnam

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"Fansipan is the highest mountain peak in the Hoang Lien Son mountain range, located on the border between Lao Cai province and Lai Chau province. Administratively, Fansipan Peak belongs to both Tam Duong district (Lai Chau) and Sapa town (Lao Cai), approximately 9 km southwest of the center of Sapa town. The measured height of the peak in 1909 was 3,143 meters, however, according to the latest data from the Department of Surveying, Mapping, and Geographic Information of Vietnam released at the end of June 2019, the mountain peak's height is 3,147.3 meters.

This is also the highest point of the Indochina Peninsula (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), so Fansipan is also known as the 'Roof of Indochina'

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