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Cửu Long was a province in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam. [1] It was created in 1976 from the merger of Vĩnh Long province and Vĩnh Bình province , and in 1992 Cửu Long was re-split into Vĩnh Long and Trà Vinh provinces.
The Mekong Delta (Vietnamese: Đồng bằng Sông Cửu Long, lit. 'Nine Dragon River Delta' or simply Đồng Bằng Sông Mê Kông, 'Mekong River Delta'), also known as the Western Region (Vietnamese: Miền Tây) or South-western region (Vietnamese: Tây Nam Bộ), is the region in southwestern Vietnam where the Mekong River approaches and empties into the sea through a network of ...
The provinces of Vietnam are subdivided into second-level administrative units, namely districts (Vietnamese: huyện), provincial cities (thành phố trực thuộc tỉnh), and district-level towns (thị xã).
Many place-names in Vietnam incorporate the word Long, or Rồng ("dragon" in Vietnamese): Hạ Long Bay (vịnh Hạ Long, lit. "Bay of Descending Dragon"), the section of the Mekong river flowing through Vietnam contains 9 branches and is called Cửu Long ("nine dragons"); Hàm Rồng Bridge (lit."Bridge of Dragon Jaw"), Long Biên Bridge ...
Cửu Long Province, a former Vietnamese province in the Mekong Delta; 4th Corps (Vietnam People's Army) or Cửu Long Corps, a regular army corps of the People's Army of Vietnam; See also. Operation Cuu Long 44-02, a 1971 operation by South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces to reopen Route 4 in Cambodia; Jiulong (disambiguation), Mandarin equivalent
Harvest in Tịnh Biên, An Giang. An Giang occupies a position in the upper reaches of the Mekong Delta.The Hậu Giang and Tiền Giang branches of the Mekong River are the dominant geographical features of the province.
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The coastline is 32 kilometres (20 mi) long with thousands of coastal warp, which is an advantage for aquatic breeding such as crab and sea-based economic development. [6] Tiền Giang borders Long An province and HCMC to the north, Đồng Tháp province to the west, Bến Tre and Vĩnh Long province to the south, and the East Sea to the east.