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Mỹ Tho was founded in the 1680s by Chinese refugees fleeing China after the fall of remnants of the Southern Ming to the Qing dynasty in 1683. The city is named after the Mỹ Tho River. In chữ Hán, the name is given as 美 萩 (literally, beautiful tree). [5] Due to its proximity to Saigon, Mỹ Tho was the traditional gateway to the ...
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).
(Trung Bộ, Trung Kỳ, Trung Phần, Miền Trung) North Central (Bắc Trung Bộ) Hà Tĩnh; Nghệ An; Quảng Bình; Quảng Trị; Thanh Hóa; Thừa Thiên Huế; 51,455.6 11,426,000 203.53 Contains the coastal provinces in the northern half of Vietnam's narrow central part. They all stretch from the coast in the east to Laos in the west.
On the first tier, Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces (Vietnamese: tỉnh) and 5 municipalities (Vietnamese: thành phố trực thuộc trung ương). Municipalities are the highest-ranked cities in Vietnam. [1] Municipalities are centrally-controlled cities and have special status equal to a province.
The snake farm is in Bình Đức Commune, Châu Thành District, and is located about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) west of Mỹ Tho City. Vinh Trang temple; This is the largest Buddhist site in the province, built in the 19th century, and covering an area of two hectares with many large Buddha statues and beautiful gardens.
However, in 1908 the newspaper Lục Tỉnh Tân Văn ("Six Provinces News") whose editor was Gilbert Trần Chánh Chiếu, still commonly used the names "Lục Tỉnh" and "Lục Châu". The French Empire called Southern Vietnam (Nam Kỳ) Cochinchine, Northern Vietnam (Bắc Kỳ) Tonkin and Central Vietnam (Trung Kỳ) Annam. "Cochinchina ...
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The Mỹ Tho River (Vietnamese: Sông Mỹ Tho) is a river of Vietnam. It flows for 45.3 kilometres (28.1 mi) through Bến Tre Province and Tiền Giang Province. [1]