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Lào Cai has been known since ancient times as a historic trading post. Here, the Chinese, the Vietnamese and the ethnic minorities of the region fought to gain control of the region. In 1463, the Viet Kings established Lào Cai as the capital of their northernmost region, then named as Hưng Hóa. It came under French colonial rule in 1889 and ...
Sa Pa District is in Lào Cai Province, northwest Vietnam, 380 km northwest of Hanoi close to the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Sơn range of mountains dominates the district, which is at the eastern extremity of the Himalayas. This range includes Vietnam's highest mountain, Fan Si Pan, at a height of 3143 m above sea level.
Lào Cai ([làːw kāːj] ⓘ) is a city in the Northwest region of Vietnam. 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 , in Yunnan province of southwest China .
Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (English: Liberated Saigon) also known as SGGP and Saigon Giai Phong, is a Vietnamese Communist Party newspaper published from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It is published in Vietnamese , English and Chinese .
The Lao people are a Tai ethnic group native to Southeast Asia. They primarily speak the Lao language, which belongs to the Kra–Dai language family. Lao people constitute the majority ethnic group of Laos, comprising 53.2% of the country's total population. They are also found in significant numbers in northeastern Thailand, particularly in ...
The Hanoi–Lao Cai Expressway Another name Noi Bai–Lao Cai Expressway (Vietnamese: Đường cao tốc Nội Bài - Lào Cai, labelled CT.05) is an expressway section of the Expressways of Vietnam, 265 km long and has its starting point at the intersection of National Highway 18 with National Highway 2 in Thanh Xuân commune, Sóc Sơn district], Hanoi city and the end point at Duyên Hải ...
Hanoi–Lào Cai Railway (Vietnamese: Đường sắt Hà Nội–Lào Cai) is a 296 km (184 mi) railway line serving northern Vietnam. It is a single-track metre gauge line connecting Hanoi with Lào Cai, on the China-Vietnam border in Lào Cai Province. [1] It is the Vietnamese section of the metre gauge Kunming–Haiphong railway.
In comparison with the provincial capital of Đông Hà in standard of individual earnings, the earnings of inhabitants of Lao Bao are higher. In Lao Bảo the Sepon River (Vietnamese: Sông Xê-pôn) is the border line between Hướng Hóa and the Savan province of Laos. This river is only 1 meter in depth and its width is about 100 metres.