first count of vote results on 11/11/11 by the New7Wonders
Foundation.The bay stretches in an area of 1553 square kilometers in the
north-east of Vietnam, 165km from Hanoi. Halong Bay includes 1,969
rocky islands and islets jutting out of the emerald water of the East
Vietnam Sea.
The others on the provisional list are the Amazon rain-forest
(stretching over nine countries' territories: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia,
Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela), Argentina's
Iguazu Falls, South Korea's Jeju Island, Indonesia's Komodo, the
Philippines' Puerto Princesa Underground River and South Africa's Table
Mountain.
