MẬT - Secret, Classified - MAP - Nha Trang, People's Army of Vietnam 1968 - 1990 - Militaria

This map is an official product of the Cục Bản Đồ, the Map Department of the General Staff of the People’s Army of Vietnam (QĐNDVN). The information printed in the top left corner reveals that this is a second reprint, carried out in Đà Lạt in March 1990. The base data used for the map originally comes from a 1:25,000 scale Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) mapping survey conducted in 1968, during the Vietnam War. However, important administrative details including provincial boundaries, place names, and road systems were corrected and updated according to new documents issued in 1981. A note on the map states that the elevation data had not been field-verified.

In short, the terrain and geographical layout depicted reflect the situation as originally recorded in 1968, but administrative information such as town names and road networks was updated to match changes by 1981. The physical copy of the map itself was reprinted in 1990, many years after the end of the Vietnam War, under the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

This means that while the underlying geographic data dates from the wartime period, this map was not issued by the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese Army during active combat operations. Instead, it is a postwar reprint used by the standing People's Army of Vietnam, likely for reserve, training, mobilization, or internal planning purposes in the peacetime military structure.

Maps like this are still historically significant as they preserve original Vietnam War-era survey data while also reflecting postwar political and administrative realities.

CỤC BẢN ĐỒ - BỘ TỔNG THAM MƯU - Q.Đ.N.D. VIỆT NAM
(Map Department – General Staff – People’s Army of Vietnam)

Tái bản lần thứ hai tại Đà Lạt tháng 3 năm 1990 theo tài liệu:
(Second reprint at Da Lat in March 1990 based on the following documents:)

1 – 1:25,000 U.T.M. in 1968
(Original map source: 1:25,000 scale Universal Transverse Mercator map created in 1968)

2 – Ranh giới hành chính, địa danh, đường sá, chỉnh lý theo tài liệu năm 1981
(Administrative boundaries, place names, roads corrected and updated according to 1981 documents)

CHÚ Ý: Độ cao chưa được kiểm tra ở thực địa
(Note: Elevations have not been field-verified.)

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