Lào Cai () is a city in the
Northwest region of
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
. It is the capital of
Lào Cai Province. The city borders
Bảo Thắng District,
Bát Xát District,
Sa Pa and the city of
Hekou Yao Autonomous County
The Hekou Yao Autonomous County () is an autonomous county in the southern part of the Yunnan province of China. It is part of the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture and borders the northern Vietnamese city of Lào Cai. It was apparently kn ...
, in
Yunnan
Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...
province of southwest China. It lies at the junction of the
Red River (Sông Hồng) and the
Nanxi River (Yunnan) approximately 160 miles (260 km) northwest of
Hanoi.
It is a market town for timber, and the
Lào Cai Railway Station is located on the
Hải Phòng railway to Yunnan Province in China.
History
The town was
invaded by China in 1979 and the border was closed until 1993.
[Forbes, Andrew, and Henley, David: ''Vietnam Past and Present: The North'' (History and culture of Hanoi and Tonkin). Chiang Mai. Cognoscenti Books, 2012. ASIN: B006DCCM9Q.] The town has a
carbide factory.
Climate
Lào Cai has a dry-winter
humid subtropical climate (
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
''Cwa''), similar to most of Northern Vietnam.
Demographics
As of 2020 the city had a population of 130,671, covering an area of 282.13 km
2.
[
Ethnic minorities in Lào Cai used to speak Southwestern Mandarin and ]Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
to each other when their languages were not mutually intelligible.
Administrative divisions
Lào Cai City is officially divided into 17 commune-level sub-divisions, including 10 wards (Bắc Cường, Bắc Lệnh, Bình Minh, Cốc Lếu, Duyên Hải, Kim Tân, Lào Cai, Nam Cường, Pom Hán, and Xuân Tăng) and 7 rural communes (Cam Đường, Cốc San, Đồng Tuyển, Hợp Thành, Tả Phời, Thống Nhất, Vạn Hòa).
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lao Cai
Populated places in Lào Cai province
Provincial capitals in Vietnam
Districts of Lào Cai province
Cities in Vietnam
China–Vietnam border crossings
Lào Cai province