Sơn La ( listen) is a city in northwestern Vietnam. It is the capital of the Son La province.
In the era of the Sip Song Chau Tai Son La was a fort of the Black Tai.
Famous quotes containing the word son:
“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.