Đức Trọng is a
rural district
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(''huyện'') of
Lâm Đồng province Lâm is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Lin in Mandarin and Im in Korean.
Lam is the anglicized variation of the surname Lâm.
Lam is also a commonly held surname of Cantonese speakers of Chinese descent. Large populations ...
in the
Central Highlands region of
Vietnam
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. Đức Trọng is located at the center of Lâm Đồng Province. Liên Nghĩa Town (''thị trấn''), the district capital, is 30 km to the south of
Đà Lạt
Da Lat, or Dalat (; ), is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located above sea level on the Langbiang Plateau. Da Lat is one of the most popular tourist destinat ...
.
National Route 20 (Đà Lạt -
Hồ Chí Minh City
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The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
) and National Route 27 (Đà Lạt -
Ban Mê Thuột) run through the district. It also has two highways connecting Đà Lạt and the central coastal provinces.
The district is subdivided into one town (Liên Nghĩa) and 13 communes (''xã''): Hiệp Thạnh, Hiệp An, Liên Hiệp, Bình Thạnh, N'Thôl Hạ, Tân Hội, Tân Thành, Phú Hội, Ninh Gia, Tà Hine, Ninh Loan, Đà Loan, and Tà Năng.
Pongour Waterfall, well known as "Seven-Floor Fall" (''Thác Bảy Tầng'') or "the First Waterfall of the South" (''Nam thiên đệ nhất thác'') is an attractive tourist site of Đức Trọng.
As of 2003 the district had a population of 161,232.
The district covers an area of 902 km
2. The district capital lies at
Liên Nghĩa.
Climate
References
Districts of Lâm Đồng province
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