Trà Vinh City is the
capital city
A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses t ...
of
Trà Vinh province in southern
Vietnam
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.
Location
It is located in the
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta ( vi, Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit=Nine Dragon River Delta or simply vi, Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, lit=Mekong River Delta, label=none), also known as the Western Region ( vi, Miền Tây, links=no) or South-weste ...
region, which is in the Southern part of Vietnam. Under the
Republic of Vietnam
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, it was the provincial capital of a province with a population of 51,535.
Government Resolution No. 11/NQ-CP 04/03/2010 established the city of Trà Vinh with an area of 6803.5 hectares and a population of 131,360 inhabitants and 10 administrative units.
On February 15, 2016, Trà Vinh City was classified as a level II city in Vietnam's cities classification system.
Trà Vinh had 1,286,000 inhabitants in 2019.
Administrative divisions
The area directly under the town consists of:
* 9
urban wards: numbered from 1 to 9
* 1
rural communes: Long Đức
References
External links
*
Official website
Populated places in Trà Vinh province
Districts of Trà Vinh province
Provincial capitals in Vietnam
Cities in Vietnam
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