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Chợ nổi Cà Mau. Floating markets of Vietnam, or chợ nổi in Vietnamese, are areas of commerce based within the country's many river systems. Vietnam's extensive network of floating markets is economically and culturally significant to the country.
A scene at Cái Răng Floating Market. Cái Răng Floating Market, also written as Cai Rang Floating Market, is a wholesale floating market specializing in the trade of vegetables and fruits on the Hau River, and is a unique tourist attraction in the Cai Rang district in Can Tho, Vietnam.
According to some sources, the Giời market was established around 1954 or 1955. At that time many people were evacuating to the south of Việt Nam and needed to sell the family goods that they could not take with them. As a number of people had lived here for a long time, it was called "Giời Markets" from the period 1975–1986.
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on es.wikipedia.org See Tình; Usage on ko.wikipedia.org 시 띤; Usage on pt.wikipedia.org See Tình
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).
Bến Thành Market (Vietnamese: Chợ Bến Thành) is located in the center of Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam in District 1. The market is one of the earliest surviving structures in Ho Chi Minh City and an important symbol of the city. Ben Thanh Market is a famous destination for many local and foreign tourists from all around the world.
Chợ Lớn (listen ⓘ, Chinese: 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River , having Bình Tây Market as its central market.
By texts from Thiều Chửu, Dr. Lê Chí Quế and Trần Chí Dõi, its name Cửa-lùa (before) or Cửa-lò (in present) was a classical Annamese pronunciation of Malayo-Polynesian word keluar, or kuala, or simply k'la (kẻ-la, what is similar cổ-loa [1]) which means the point where two rivers join or an estuary. [2]