Tri Tôn is a
rural district (''huyện'') of
An Giang province in the
Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2019 the district had a population of 117,431.
The district covers an area of . The district capital lies at Tri Tôn and is away from
Châu Đốc.
There is a sacred mountain system named after
Seven Mountains here where
Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương tradition monks live.
It is the largest and most sparsely populated of the districts in An Giang, being quite mountainous.
It was the
location of the
Ba Chúc massacre committed by the
Khmer Rouge in 1978, which was part of a series of cross-border incursions skirmishes that prompted a
Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.
Administrative divisions
The district is divided into two townships:
Tri Tôn
Tri Tôn is an urban municipality (''trấn thuộc huyện'') and town in the Tri Tôn District of An Giang Province, Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland So ...
(the district capital) and
Ba Chúc, and the communes of
Châu Lăng,
Lương Phi,
Vĩnh Phước,
Lương An Trà,
Lạc Quới,
Vĩnh Gia,
Núi Tô,
An Tức,
Ô Lâm,
Cô Tô,
Tà Đảnh and
Tân Tuyến.
References
Districts of An Giang province
An Giang province
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