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Province of Vietnam From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trà Vinh (Khmer: ព្រះត្រពាំង) is a province in the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam. The capital is Trà Vinh City.
Trà Vinh
Vĩnh Bình | |
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Trà Vinh province | |
Coordinates: 9°50′N 106°15′E | |
Country | Vietnam |
Region | Mekong Delta |
Capital | Trà Vinh |
Government | |
• People's Council Chair | Lê Văn Hẳn |
• People's Committee Chair | Kim Ngọc Thái |
Area | |
• Total | 2,390.77 km2 (923.08 sq mi) |
Population (2023) | |
• Total | 1,419,900 |
• Density | 590/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
Demographics | |
• Ethnicities | Vietnamese (68.35%) Khmer (30.00%) Hoa (1.65%)[2] |
GDP[3] | |
• Total | VND 45.778 trillion US$ 2.006 billion |
Time zone | UTC+7 (ICT) |
Area codes | 294 |
ISO 3166 code | VN-51 |
HDI (2020) | 0.693[4] (42th) |
Website | www |
The name Trà Vinh comes from the Khmer name of the area ព្រះត្រពាំង Preah Trapeang, which means Sacred pond or Buddha's pond. The Vietnamese transliteration gave Trà Vang and later Trà Vinh. [5][6][7]
Besides more than two thirds of Trà Vinh's population being Vietnamese, nearly a third of the population is Khmer Krom. Trà Vinh also has one of the largest ethnic Hoa (Chinese) communities in Vietnam (1.65%).
Trà Vinh is subdivided into nine district-level sub-divisions:
They are further subdivided into 11 commune-level towns (or townlets), 85 communes, and nine wards.
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