Map Showing Khouengs in Laos poster (English-Lao poster distributed from Manila)

A black-and-white outline map of the Kingdom of Laos with its provinces (khoueng) named in English and Lao script, neighboring China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, North and South Vietnam, and the 17th parallel. The sheet carries no argument or slogan. The closest tell is card-stacking by selection: only official boundaries and province names are shown, and the sheet frames Laos as a single mapped state.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Card stacking

Date

March 31, 1965

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Johnson Administration

Leader

Lyndon B. Johnson

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Warn or inform

Theme

War and the military

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, March 31, 1965. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949253, 306-PPB-328).

[Lao-script title:] ແຜນທີ່ສະແດງແຂວງ
ໃນພຣະຣາຊອານາຈັກລາວ

MAP SHOWING KHOUENGS IN LAOS

CHINA; BURMA; NORTH VIETNAM; GULF OF TONKIN; THAILAND; CAMBODIA; SOUTH VIETNAM; GULF OF THAILAND
PHONG SALY; LUANG NAMTHA; HOUA KHONG; LUANG PRABANG; SAMNEUA; HOUA PHAN; XIENG KHOUANG; SAYABOURY; VIENTIANE; BORIKHANE; PAKSANE; KHAMMOUANE; THAKHEK; SAVANNAKHET; WAPI KHAMTHONG; KHONG SEDONE; SARAVANE; CHAMPASSAC; PAKSE; SEDONE; ATTOPEU; SITHANDONE; KHONG; 17

[Lao-script title:] Map showing the provinces in the Kingdom of Laos

MAP SHOWING KHOUENGS IN LAOS (place names as printed)