Trà Vinh City ( ) is the
capital city
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of
Trà Vinh province
Trà Vinh () was a former province in the Mekong Delta region of Southern Vietnam. The capital is Trà Vinh City.
Etymology
Trà Vang was an old name used for this area, a hinterland with a sparse population.
In 1825, the area of Trà Vinh was ...
in
Southern Vietnam
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.
Etymology
Trà Vang was an old name used for this area, a
hinterland
Hinterland is a German word meaning the 'land behind' a city, a port, or similar. Its use in English was first documented by the geographer George Chisholm in his ''Handbook of Commercial Geography'' (1888). Originally the term was associated wi ...
with a sparse population.
In 1825, the area of Trà Vinh was established by King
Minh Mạng
Minh Mạng (), also known as Minh Mệnh (, vi-hantu, 明 命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven"; 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu), was the second emperor of the Nguyễ ...
into Lạc Hóa district also known as chà-văng or chà-vinh.
In 1951, the name Vĩnh Trà appeared, a combination of Vĩnh from
Vĩnh Long and Trà from Trà Vinh.
The name was changed again from Trà Vinh to
Vĩnh Binh in 1957 with Phú Vinh as its capital city.
In 1976,
Cửu Long province came to be by merging Vĩnh Long province and Trà Vinh.
The name ''Trà Vinh'' comes from the
Khmer name of the area ព្រះត្រពាំង , which means ''Sacred pond'' or ''Buddha's pond''. The
Vietnamese transliteration gave ''Trà Vang'' and later ''Trà Vinh''.
Location
It is located in the
Mekong Delta
The Mekong Delta ( or simply ), also known as the Western Region () or South-western region (), is the list of regions of Vietnam, region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong, Mekong River River delta, approaches and empties into the sea th ...
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
Climate
Gallery
Photos taken in Trà Vinh city:
File:Kênh Trà Vinh.jpg, Canal in the city.
File:Đường phố ở TX.Trà Vinh.jpg, One street.
File:Một góc TX.Trà Vinh..jpg, A corner of Trà Vinh city.
File:Cổng chùa Watsamrongek, Trà Vinh.jpg, Khmer Watsamrongek Pagoda in Ward 8
File:Bảo tàng Khmer ở Trà Vinh.jpg, Khmer Museum in Trà Vinh
File:Bảo tàng văn hóa dân tộc Khmer tỉnh Trà Vinh.jpg, Museum of Khmer Ethnic Culture in Trà Vinh province
File:Tháp Khmer.jpg, A tower on the grounds of the Khmer Ethnic Cultural Museum in Trà Vinh province
File:Ao Bà Om, Trà Vinh.jpg, Bà Om Pond
File:Ao Bà Om.jpg, Bà Om Pond
File:Cổ thụ ở ao Bà Ôm.jpg, Around the pond there are many ancient trees hundreds of years old
File:Vui chơi ở ao Bà Ôm.jpg, People often come to the pond area to have fun
File:Chùa Âng.jpg, Next to the pond is an ancient pagoda (Âng pagoda, name Khmer: Angkorajaborey)
File:Đền thờ Bác Hồ ở Trà Vinh.jpg, Front view of President Hồ Chí Minh's shrine
A shrine ( "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: ''escrin'' "box or case") is a sacred space">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...: ''escri ...
File:Đền thờ Bác Hồ 2.jpg, Shrine of President Ho Chi Minh in Long Đức
File:Đền thờ Bác Hồ ở Long Đức.jpg, The building was built after 1975 to surround and preserve the temple
File:Khu đền thờ Bác Hồ ở Long Đức.jpg, One of the bamboo bushes planted before 1975, to protect the temple
File:Nơi bom nổ.jpg, On April 29, 1975, a bomb exploded in this bamboo bush, damaging part of the temple.
File:Máy bay và súng.jpg, Captive ARVN aircraft and artillery displays in the temple area
File:Ao Bà Om.jpg, Bà Om Pond in Trà Vinh city
References
External links
*
Official website
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Populated places in Trà Vinh province
Districts of Trà Vinh province
Provincial capitals in Vietnam
Cities in Vietnam