1999 Vietnamese floods
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The 1999 Vietnamese floods affected Vietnam
in late 1999 and were the worst floods the country had experienced in a century.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1999sum.htm The floods were caused by a series of storms that brought heavy rain to the central part of the country in October and November. The first storm to hit was Tropical Storm Eve on October 19 and the main event occurred from November 1-November 6.
In total 793 people lost their lives and 55,000 were made homeless. The floods brought $290 million of damage to the region and caused a further $490 million of economic losses. It is estimated that 1.7 million people in the central Provinces of Vietnam
were affected by the floods.
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
in late 1999 and were the worst floods the country had experienced in a century.http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1999sum.htm The floods were caused by a series of storms that brought heavy rain to the central part of the country in October and November. The first storm to hit was Tropical Storm Eve on October 19 and the main event occurred from November 1-November 6.
In total 793 people lost their lives and 55,000 were made homeless. The floods brought $290 million of damage to the region and caused a further $490 million of economic losses. It is estimated that 1.7 million people in the central Provinces of Vietnam
Provinces of Vietnam
Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces and five centrally governed cities existing at the same level as provinces ....
were affected by the floods.
External links
- The role of local institutions in reducing vulnerability to recurrent natural disasters and in sustainable livelihoods development. Case Study: Vietnam (FAOFãoFão is a town in Esposende Municipality in Portugal....
) - World Disaster Reports 2001 (ICRCInternational Committee of the Red CrossThe International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and...
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