- Leaders
- Prince Souphanouvong , Kaysone Phomvihane , Nouhak Phoumsavanh
- Dates of operation
- 1950 – 2 December 1975
- Headquarters
- Vientiane
- Ideology
- Communism
- Allies
- State allies: Soviet Union China North Vietnam Albania North Korea East Germany Cuba Romania Non-state allies: Viet Cong Khmer Rouge Communist Party of Thailand
- Opponents
- Kingdom of Laos South Vietnam (Until 1975) Khmer Republic (Until 1975) Australia South Korea New Zealand Philippines Taiwan Thailand United States
- Battles and wars
- First Indochina War , Vietnam War Laotian Civil War Cambodian Civil War Communist insurgency in Thailand