Laos, Southeast Asia (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"of tribes of the hills of Laos."

"His task: save the prelapsarian Montagnards of a bucolic hamlet perched on the border of wild Laos."

"I was thinking that the only route overland from Thailand involved trekking through Laos or Cambodia, avoiding established roads and choosing the treacherous terrain of disease-ridden jungles, forests, and mountains..."

"The affectless lieutenant shook his head and said, Laos. Very evil communists there."

"… studying the map of our route through the southern end of Laos."

"even ten years of warfare fought from a cave in Laos had not ruined his classically good looks."

"In fact, both of these names are misnomers, since the war was also fought, to great devastation, in Laos and Cambodia, a fact that Americans and Vietnamese would both rather forget."