Pleiku, town, central Vietnam, in the Truong Son (Annam Highlands). Pleiku was at the center of many critical actions of the Vietnam War, including a guerrilla attack on a U.S. special forces camp in 1965, which provoked the first sustained U.S. air raids of the war. Population (1989) 75,810.Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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